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70
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Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
As ingenious and lively as the original film.
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63
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Apart from funny supporting work by the inventor of the Mind Control and the guy in the "Q" role, the movie is pretty routine.
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63
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New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
With lots of cool gadgets, plenty of silliness and a clever concept guaranteed to appeal to preteens, this should be an unflagging, high-octane romp.
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50
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USA Today Claudia Puig
Stretching what was a cute concept to the breaking point.
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50
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Boston Globe Janice Page
Muniz has better secret-agent toys to play with, funnier lines and sidekicks helping him out, and a bit more discerning director in Kevin Allen ("The Big Tease").
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50
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San Francisco Chronicle
So the movie's OK in spots, but it's mostly so familiar that even the young target audience may get that deja vu feeling.
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50
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Washington Post
Kids should be reasonably diverted for a couple of hours, but odds are they'll have forgotten the whole thing by the next morning.
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50
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Muniz is quite winning as a plucky teen who is constantly being thrown into situations over his head. But the usually reliable Anthony Anderson e-mails in his performance as Cody's handler.
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42
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Entertainment Weekly
At bottom, there's just too much spy in young Cody, and too little kid. The writers might've taken (another) page from the ''Spy Kids'' playbook and infused the action with youth relevance.
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30
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The New York Times Dave Kehr
Mr. Allen's work is compromised by an apparent inability to match his shots in a spatially coherent fashion. It's never easy to tell who is chasing whom and in which direction, a needless confusion that dampens many of the thrills and scuttles quite a few gags.
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