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| Directed by | Kevin Allen |
| Produced by | David Glasser |
| Written by | Jeffrey Jurgensen Harald Zwart |
| Starring | Frankie Muniz Anthony Anderson Hannah Spearritt |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | March 12, 2004 |
| Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | US$26 million (estimated) |
| Box office | $28,818,995 |
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London is an English-American action comedy film and the sequel to the 2003 film Agent Cody Banks, and was released in the United States on March 12, 2004. Frankie Muniz was the only major returning star, with Hannah Spearritt now playing the love interest and Anthony Anderson as the sidekick. The film takes place in London with Cody trying to recover a stolen software activating the government's mind control project.
The film grossed US$28,818,995 worldwide.[1] Muniz has stated that he will not do a third installment.[2]
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Rogue CIA agent Victor Diaz (Keith Allen) has stolen a top secret mind-control device and Agent Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz) has to go undercover in London to get it back. Posing as a student at an elite boarding school registered in the summer music program to get close to his suspects, Cody has to keep the other kids from discovering his true identity while infiltrating covert hideouts, spying on his sinister target—and going to class. With new gadgets and a wisecracking new handler named Derek (Anderson), Cody has to retrieve the device before the world's leaders fall under Diaz's control.
Cody's cover is blown and he learns Emily (Hannah Spearritt), a member of the orchestra he has a crush on, is actually a British secret agent. As Emily is busy buying them Coffee and Soda, Cody is attacked, and put under the mind control chip. He is saved however by Emily and Derek, when Emily tells Derek that Cody's under the chip's control, and Derek (who's an excellent cook) figures out how much Mentos (which is actually a saliva activated bomb) to use to dislodge the chip.
In the end Diaz and his accomplice, Lord Kensworth, get Derek and most of the world leaders under control with the help of the director of the CIA, who is under mind control. Cody reveals the truth to the orchestra about his identity and tells them to keep performing to prevent the world leaders from leaving and going to a G7 conference in Buckingham Palace. The orchestra is forced to put on an impromptu performance of War (which is a major hit with the crowd) but is able to hold the crowd there long enough for Cody to stop the antagonists. Derek nearly kills Cody, but Emily saves him and releases Derek from the mind control.
Emily also frees the President while Cody and Derek free the CIA Director. Cody goes one on one against Diaz in the Queen's gift room and defeats him while Kensworth tries to escape and is stopped by his apparently senile butler. Cody, Derek, Emily and the orchestra are thanked for their work and its revealed that the butler was in fact Emily's handler undercover. While saying good-bye Cody and Emily kiss on the cheek. Cody returns to the secret agent training camp that he was supposed to be at that Diaz used to run and Derek is given control of it as a reward for his work. Cody's parents pick him up at the end of the summer, none the wiser about his adventures. Cody's younger brother tries to eat a few of his explosive Mentos, but Cody tosses them into the pond where they explode harmlessly.
A novelization, written by Michael Anthony Steele, based on the screenplay written by Don Rhymer, was released.