Things take a turn for the worse for Banks when his rogue CIA director, Diaz (Keith Allen) escapes to London. Banks is sent after him to infiltrate a London music school which he uses as his base from where he must foil Diaz's rather complicated plans to implant mind control devices into the mouths of world leaders at a summit at Buckingham Palace - leading to world domination.

He does however employ help from his huggable but bumbling sidekick Derek (Anthony Anderson). Banks even has the chance to make acquaintances with his own Bond-girl in British undercover agent Emily (Hannah Spearritt), revealing that there is life after S-Club!

Filmed in London, director Kevin Allen makes good use of the location filming in as many sites as possible, from the London dungeons to the Millennium wheel. It's impossible to forget what city you're in!

Allen did manage to attract the cream of British comedy for small cameo roles. Paul Kaye played an amusing but slightly insane Q type role, showing off the gadgets, such as the explosive Mento's. He was joined by Mark Williams as a bumbling British copper and James Dreyfus as a camped up butler to the Queen.

Baby faced Muniz maintains his enthusiasm for the role and the forever youthful looking Spearritt came across well in her first major film, playing the quintessentially English girl.

Fellow Brit, Keith Allen (Diaz), brother of director, was less than convincing as the rogue CIA boss as his hoarse accent often back and forth across the Atlantic.

A fun film which falls short of the competition in the kids' spy film genre. The film never really flowed and the effects look cheap. Agent Cody Banks 2 is more shaken up than shaken not stirred.

Mike Maxwell