With all-new gadgets, high-flying action, exciting chases and a wisecracking new handler, Derek (Anthony Anderson), Cody has to retrieve the device before the world's leaders fall under the evil control of a diabolical villain.
Kids may well find the film diverting, but there's just not a lot of creativity or energy here.
– Moira MacDonald,
Seattle Times,
12 Mar 2004
fresh:
Here's just about everything a 6-year-old spy would hope to find in a kiddie-espionage flick, with just a twinge of romance, but nothing serious to interrupt Cody's undoubtedly continuing career.
– Susan Walker,
Toronto Star,
12 Mar 2004
rotten:
Kids should be reasonably diverted for a couple of hours, but odds are they'll have forgotten the whole thing by the next morning.
– Dan Via,
Washington Post,
12 Mar 2004
rotten:
... tedious, forgettable and wholly unnecessary.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
15 Mar 2004
rotten:
Really pretty hateful, shooting for the bulk of its laughs at the expense of those wacky foreign kids and the endlessly humiliated Anthony Anderson.