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Agent Cody Bank (2003)

Boy Gets Recruited by the Government to Be a Secret Agent

A normal boy is pulled into a secret world when the government recruits him for a mission only a kid can do. He trains hard, learns spy skills, and suddenly his whole life changes overnight.

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and we did not teach him how to talk to a girl. After a boy named Cody Banks gets ready for school, he leaves his room and heads downstairs with his brother, Alex. The two boys greet their parents, and Alex talks about wanting an increase in his allowance. Cody then tells Alex that buying gummy bears for girls won't make them like him.

Alex jokes that he can't take dating advice from Cody because he has had more girlfriends than his brother. Cody doesn't care much about this, and as he's about to leave the house, his mom reminds him to do his chores. Cody says he'll do them later, but his mom insists that he can't keep postponing his chores. She adds that the family's guinea pigs have been sitting in excrement for days.

Cody then tries to get Alex to do it, but he refuses. Cody looks disappointed and eventually leaves the house with his skateboard. On the way, he skates past a lady who leaves her son in her car so she can quickly drop off some mail. Interestingly, her son moves into the driver's seat and shifts the gear.

The car suddenly starts moving. And as the mother realizes that her son is still inside, she runs after it and calls for help. As the car moves past Cody, he decides to help. He chases down the car, but realizes that the door is locked, and he can't easily open it to grab the baby or shift back the gear.

The baby doesn't seem to understand what's going on, but Cody continues following the car. Just as the car moves toward a set of train tracks, Cody ditches the skateboard and climbs onto the car. He then slips his hand into the car through the sunroof and reaches for the handbrake, which he uses to stop the car before a train collides with it. Cody looks relieved and the boy's mother and some passers by run toward the car.

Cody leaves before they get there. And after the mother confirms that her baby is fine, she looks confused and wonders why Cody didn't wait. Meanwhile, Cody looks happy about what he did. And after he retrieves his skateboard, he leaves the scene. Elsewhere, a scientist named Connors gives a presentation to the executives of a company called EIS, which is headed by a man named Brinkman.

Connors is an expert on nanotechnology and he shows the executives how his recently developed nanobots can easily clean up an ocean after an oil spill. Look who's coming. The nanobots. Brinkman seems impressed with the presentation, but he doesn't like the application. He asks if the nanobots can be reprogrammed to eat up other things and not just oil.

Connor says it's possible for the nanobots to break down silicon or carbon-based compounds. Brinkman likes this and says that Connors has 10 days to reprogram the nanobots. Connors believes it's a short time to work with, but Brinkman gets his men to take the scientist out of the building. After Connors leaves, Brinkman's henchman, Mole, tells Brinkman that it seems the scientist still doesn't know what they're hoping to achieve.

Brinkman says it's better to keep things that way, and Mole agrees. Meanwhile, during a meeting at the CIA headquarters, the CIA director talks about Connor's work on nanobots, which can be programmed to destroy anything, including military infrastructure. He adds that one of their undercover agents, Bolivar, confirmed that Connors is working with ERIS, the world's foremost expert in nanotechnology. He also plays Bolivar's last video recording in which the agent tells the CIA not to send more agents because everyone has been compromised.

He then shows images from the last time Connors met with Brinkman and Malay to discuss his recent work. Before he can say what they're up to, he gets attacked by someone and the video ends. The CIA director says they've not heard from Bolivar since then. But it's really important for the CIA to know what Connors and Brinkman are planning.

He says the only problem they have is that Connors dropped out of public view after his wife died a few years ago. The director adds that Connor's only contact with the outside world is through his daughter Natalie. After he mentions that they need to get close to Natalie, he tells an agent named Mallister to brief everyone at the meeting about the CIA's agent development program. Following this, Mallister talks about how the CIA has been secretly recruiting teenage agents under the guise of an elite summer camp.

At the camp, the recruits are trained to be agents, but their parents have no idea about this. The agents are also stationed around the country and they continue to live like normal children while they await their call for duty. Interestingly, Cody happens to be one of them. Welcome to the agent development program.

And the CIA director says he's one of the program's most impressive agents. He adds that Cody doesn't live far from Natalie and he's the best person to send on the mission to get close to her because he's smart, resourceful, and very good with girls. Elsewhere at Cody's school, it turns out that Cody is actually terrible at talking to girls, and his peers often tease him about this. While in the locker room, Cody's mates start joking about how he couldn't even say anything to his class crush.

Almost immediately, a lady named Ronica enters the locker room and tells Cody to come with her. Cody looks confused, and the other boys also wonder why she's taking Cody over them. As they try to flirt with her, she puts them in their place and insists that Cody has to come with her. Cody says he doesn't even know her.

But as she says some of the codes used at the CIA agent development program, he realizes that she works for the CIA. He looks excited and heads out with her. He also asks if he'll be traveling around the world, but Ronica says his first mission is in downtown Seattle. China downtown Seattle.

After this, he heads to the CIA headquarters with Ronica. And when they get there, he looks excited and starts wondering what his first mission would be. He adds that he didn't know he would even have a good-looking partner like Ronica. Ronica then corrects him and says she's his handler, not his partner.

After this, Ronica shows him around, but he eventually stops following her when he sees some stars on the wall. as he admires them. A security guard named Rossichuk sees him and asks how he broke into the building, even though there are no school tours today. Cody says he's an agent, but Rossychuck doesn't believe this. Suddenly, the CIA director realizes that Rossychuck has apprehended Cody.

Rossychuck seems proud of what he has done, but the director scolds him for apprehending the most important kid in the United States. After this, Cody heads to the briefing room with Ronica, the CIA director, and some other agents. As the director is about to explain what nanotechnology means, Cody says he already knows. The director looks impressed and tells Cody that his mission is to get close to Natalie and figure out what her dad and Brinkman are planning.

Cody looks worried because he's not really good at talking to girls, but he doesn't say anything about this. The director says Cody has been placed in all of Natalie's classes so he can get closer to her as soon as possible. Cody realizes that the director wants him to be Natalie's boyfriend, and Ronica adds that Cody's first task is to get invited to Natalie's birthday party, which her dad is throwing for her at his house. Cody seems worried, but as the director asks if he can do the job, he says he can.

Following this, he's taken to meet a scientist named Earl, who gives him some gadgets, including a get out of trouble wristwatch, which has a silver button that shocks anyone who presses it. He also gives Cody a sum of $5,000, which he can use to buy anything he wants. Cody then sees a special car inside the lab and asks if he can take it to impress the girls at his new school. However, Earl says it's not necessary because they've made a special skateboard for him.

After this, Cody heads home and tells his parents that he has just received a scholarship to a private school in downtown Seattle. His parents look confused, and his dad says he won't let him go anywhere unless he meets an official from the school. Almost immediately, Ronica arrives and pretends to be the dean of admissions at the new school. She also manages to convince Cody's parents to let Cody change schools.

The next day, as Ronica drops Cody off at the school, he seems worried that Natalie might not like him. However, Ronica encourages him, and he heads into the building for the first class. When he gets there, he sees Natalie and decides to approach her. On the way, a bully named Fster stops him and jokes about Cody being a new student.

Cody says he doesn't want trouble, but Fster still pulls off Cody's CIA watch. Cody tells Fster to return it, but the bully tries to provoke him to fight for it. Cody thinks about how this could be a good way to impress Natalie, but since he doesn't want to blow his cover, he just tricks Fster into hitting the silver button. As Fster does this, the watch shocks him.

And Cody quickly gets it back. He then walks up to Natalie while she's with her friends. Unfortunately, he still doesn't know how to strike up a conversation with girls, and he ends up talking about books. Natalie finds this weird and assumes that he's a freak. As she walks away, Cody looks disappointed and wonders if he'll be able to get her to like him.

Shortly after, he shows up for Natalie's next class, which is driver's education. Natalie wonders why he's in all her classes, and Cody jokes that great minds think alike. She then complains about the instructor, Mr. Ye and says that he never passes anyone. Cody says her dad will probably be able to drive her around, but Natalie says she's actually trying to get her license so she can drive herself.

She adds that her dad never has time for her because he's always busy doing experiments. Cody tries to ask more questions about her dad, but Natalie thinks he's being weird again. Just then, Yip shows up and says that driving is a privilege, not a right. He adds that his job is to protect society from bad drivers.

Following this, he tells Natalie to take her test first. Is a privilege, not a right. Unfortunately, Natalie doesn't do well and Yip fails her. When it's Cody's turn, he drives recklessly to impress Natalie, and this gets Yip pissed. Natalie enjoys this, but after Cody stops the car, her friends quickly help her out and scold Cody for nearly killing her.

Cody looks disappointed and Yip says he'll make sure Cody never gets a driver's license. As Yip walks away though, two CIA agents follow him to make him change his mind about Cody's license. Later that day, Cody meets up with Ronica at the CIA, and she asks why he still hasn't asked Natalie out. Cody says he's still busy with schoolwork and his chores.

Ronica then offers to get the CIA to help with his chores, and he says he'd like that. The next day, the CIA sends people to clean Cody's house and handle all his other chores. When his parents arrive, they look impressed, and his mom even gives him $5 for doing a good job. Cody thanks her for it, but he just adds it to the $5,000 he got from the CIA.

Since all his chores are done, Ronica tells Cody to call Natalie, and he says he'll do that in his room. Interestingly, he's unaware that Ronica has bugged the phone so she can hear his conversation with Natalie. After Cody calls Natalie's number, she answers the phone, but he just ends the call because he doesn't know what to say. Ronica looks disappointed and reports this to the CIA director.

The director isn't happy about this, and he asks why Cody lied in his file that he was good with girls. Cody says he didn't think it was important, but the director eventually gets some of the AY's experts to try to teach Cody how to talk to Natalie. Despite all the lessons, Cody is still unable to talk to a simulated woman, and the agents look disappointed. Come over here.

The next day at school, Cody sees Natalie about to fall off a ladder while putting up a banner. He quickly saves her before she falls badly, and Natalie seems impressed. Cody eventually follows her to the school clinic and the nurse tells him to help put some pressure on Natalie's sore ankle while she goes to get something outside. Natalie then asks if he thinks her ankle is broken, but he says it isn't.

Natalie asks how he knows and he says he has broken a few bones before. Natalie asks how, and he says he has been to many summer camps. As Natalie also talks about the summer camp she went to a while ago, Veronica seems bothered that Cody will miss another opportunity to ask Natalie out or get invited to her party. She says she needs to intervene and she leaves the surveillance van outside the school.

Almost immediately, Natalie invites Cody to come to her party and he says he'll be there. Suddenly, Ronica enters the room disguised as a nurse. Cody tries to tell her that she doesn't have to do anything, but Ronica still tries to get Natalie to invite Cody to her party. Natalie says she has done that, and Ronica looks embarrassed.

Days later, on Natalie's birthday, Ronica tells Cody everything he needs to know about Connor<unk>'s house. She also mentions that he has to be careful because Brinkman's men might be around. Following this, she gives him the key to a really nice car so he'll take it to the party, and he looks excited. When he gets to the entrance, he scans the security men and notices that they have guns.

After he's allowed in, he gets out of the car and heads toward Natalie. Surprisingly, he sees her dad walking aimlessly, but he just focuses on going to meet Natalie, who looks happy to see him. Cody then gives her a necklace for her birthday, and she says she likes it. She also tells him to help her put it on.

And as he does this, it turns out that the necklace has a tracking device inside it. Almost immediately, Natalie sees Fster throwing some boys into the pool, and she says she needs to warn him. That won't happen again. Yeah, right. As she walks away, Cody heads to the poker table to play a game.

He places a bet with fake money, and Mole also shows up to do the same thing. Cody recognizes Mole as Brinkman's henchmen, but he doesn't act weird. Unfortunately, Mole loses his bet, and even though they were playing with fake money, he still refuses to let Cody take his chips. Cody doesn't get this, but Mole just walks away.

After a while, Cody sees Brinkman, Mole, and Connors heading to Connor<unk>'s secret lab. Ronica and two other agents are inside a surveillance van outside the house, and they're also able to see everything that's happening through Cody's glasses. Cody says he wants to see what the men are up to, but Ronica tells him to wait until the place is clear. Despite this, Cody says he's already going in, and he sneaks past some of the guards and enters the lab's vent.

From there, he's able to hear Connors and Brinkman talking about the nanobots. Brinkman asks if Connors is ready to mass-roduce the nanobots, and he says he is. However, he mentions that he needs a lot of ice to control the nanobots. Brinkman says he'll get that sorted. It's one cube.

And he also tells Connors that he wants to see if the nanobots can eat up a metal object. Connors then shows a demonstration of how the nanobots, which are already trapped in ice cubes, will be released to eat up the metal. As the nanobots do just this, Connors asks about the object that got destroyed. Malay says it's the guidance system for an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Connors looks confused, but Brinkman says that the scientist has given him the power to neutralize America's entire strategic arsenal. Connors cannot believe this, and he says he won't help them do that. Brinkman believes nothing can stop him, and he threatens to harm Natalie if Connors doesn't cooperate. After they leave the lab, Ronica tells Cody to get a sample of the nanobots.

He then uses his CIA gadgets to get out of the vents and walk upside down to pick up an ice cube gently without triggering the lasers in the room. After Cody picks it up and stores it under one of his magnetic shoes, the ice cube melts and the nanobots start eating the shoe. This makes him fall off the ceiling and he triggers the lasers which send an alert to Connor's tab. Connors notices that there's something wrong inside the lab.

But as he's about to play it down as nothing serious, Brinkman tells him and Mole to check it out because they can't be too careful. France. Luckily, Cody manages to leave before they come back in. As he returns to the car, Fster and his friends try to bully him. Cody doesn't like this and he beats them up easily.

Everyone looks impressed, but as he walks away, Mole tells Brinkman that Cody's moves are straight out of the CIA handbook. Brinkman cannot believe that the CIA is now recruiting kids, and he says he'll have to do that at eris. The next day, Cody gets pulled off the mission because his fight with Fster made the news and his cover is blown. Cody still wants to work on the case, but Ronica insists that he can't do that anymore.

She also takes off his badge and tells him to stay away from Natalie. Elsewhere at Aris's thermmo lab, Connors refuses to cooperate and Brinkman tells Mole to kidnap Natalie. The next day, Natalie visits Cody at his house and his parents and brother look shocked to see that a girl really came home to see him. Cody eventually takes Natalie out to get ice cream.

He then says there's something he has to tell her, but she assumes that he's about to confess his feelings for her. She says she feels the same way. But before Cody can explain himself, Mole shows up. Cody immediately tries to run away with Natalie, but Mole and his men eventually grab her before knocking him out.

When Cody wakes up, he sees himself inside a van with Ronica and two other agents. Cody says he wants to help, but Ronica insists that the director hasn't changed his mind. She also tells him to go back to his normal life. As she drops him off, Cody looks disappointed and heads into the house.

When he gets to his room, he sees Alex playing with one of his gadgets. As he tries to grab it, he accidentally hits a button that shows a holographic message. Alex looks shocked and Cody tries to get his brother to forget about what he just saw. Suddenly, he sees a red dot blinking on his phone and he realizes that it's Natalie's location from the tracker on her necklace.

He then calls the CIA helpline to see if he can speak to Veronica or the director. Unfortunately, Cody doesn't get in touch with them and he decides to help Natalie on his own. He then tells Alex about his secret mission and makes his brother promised to cover up for him in case their parents ask about him. Alex asks what's in it for him, and Cody gives him the $5,000 he got from the agency.

A while later, Cody sneaks into the CIA building and gets Rosie Chuck to let him in. Interestingly, Rossichachuk doesn't know that Cody is no longer working with the agency, and Cody goes in without having his ID checked. He then steals a rocket powered snowboard, and takes the special car in Earl's lab to a place where he pays someone to fly him to the Cascade Mountains, which is where Eris's lab is located. Shortly after, the CIA director learns about what Cody did, and he doesn't look happy.

Ronica believes they have to admire Cody's perseverance, but the director disagrees because Cody is not following orders. After a while, Cody gets dropped off near Eris's lab. And as he uses the snowboard to move closer, some of the guards spot him. They try to stop him, but he takes them down one by one.

However, he eventually gets stuck in a tree, and as he struggles to free himself, Ronica shows up with a special flying machine. She tells him to come with her, but he says he's not leaving without saving Natalie. Veronica says she wants that, too. And after Cody gets off the tree, he joins her to sneak into the secret lab.

After moving around without being seen, they suddenly see Natalie inside a big tent. Cody then decides to sneak in to tell her what's happening. When he gets into the tent, Natalie looks shocked to see him, but he quickly tries to hide so that the cameras won't spot him. Unfortunately, this doesn't work out well and Mole sees him.

Cody then tells Natalie that he works for the CIA and his mission was to get close to her to find out more about her dad. Natalie looks disappointed, but Cody says he really likes her, even though that wasn't part of the mission. He adds that he was eventually pulled off the mission because he was getting emotionally attached to her. After Ronica is done placing bombs around the lab, she enters the tent and tells Cody that they have to go.

Natalie looks confused and asks what the school nurse is doing there, but Cody says she also works for the CIA. As they're about to leave the tent, Mole's men grab them. Luckily, Cody is able to escape, and Ronica quickly gives him the detonator for the bombs. After this, Natalie and Ronica are taken to meet Brinkman.

Natalie asks about her dad and Brinkman tells Mole to bring Connor<unk>s upstairs. When Connors gets there, Brinkman places an ice cube on Natalie's face and tells Connors to program the nanobots to follow the commands on a remote control. Natalie tells her dad not to do it. But Connor seems worried that the nanobots could kill her.

So, he agrees to help Brinkman. Program the nanobots to obey that remote control. Before Connors can do anything, Cody shows up and threatens to blow up the lab if Brinkman doesn't let Natalie go. Brinkman thinks he's just bluffing, but Cody sets off the bombs. This causes huge explosions which leave Brinkman shocked.

Before he can think of what to do next, Natalie picks up an ice cube and puts it inside his mouth. As he accidentally swallows it, he quickly tells Malay to use the remote to stop the nanobots from killing him. Unfortunately, Connors didn't actually program the remote and the nanobots kill Brinkman. Mole looks shocked, but before he can do anything, Cody punches him and he falls into a burning section inside the lab.

Agent Cody Bank (2003) Ending Explained

Cody, Ronica, Natalie, and Connors then head toward the entrance so they can escape. Cody also plants a bomb on a gas tank and the countdown begins. Interestingly, the heat inside the lab causes the nanobots to be released and they start destroying different metal objects. In the process, a large object falls and separates Connor<unk>s and Ronica from Cody and Natalie.

Cody says they'll find another way, and Ronica tells him to meet her and Connor<unk>s at the chopper in front of the gate. Luckily, Cody manages to reach the chopper with Natalie, but the gate gets stuck as it's about to open. Cody says he'll check the controls, but as he heads back down, the nanobots destroy the stairs and the platform under the chopper. Cody looks shocked, but realizes that he can use the nanobots to destroy the gate.

He then starts throwing the ice cubes at the gate, and after the nanobots destroy it, Ronica flies the chopper out of the lab. Cody also climbs back up and heads outside. Suddenly, Mole shows up behind Cody and grabs him. As he's about to throw Cody off the mountain, Cody fights back and ties him up to Ronica's flying machine.

He also sets the destination back to the CIA. And as the machine takes Mole away, Cody jumps off the mountain and holds on to the chopper's skid before the lab blows up completely. Shortly after, Ronica and Cody return to the CIA where Molay has now been arrested. Ronica looks proud of Cody and says she now sees him as her partner.

Partner. As they meet her other colleagues, they applaud Cody for completing the mission. The CIA director also congratulates Cody and thanks him for saving the country. He adds that if there's anything Cody wants, he can ask for it. As Cody thinks about it for a while, he says there's something he wants.

Shortly after, Natalie gets her driver's license. And as she drives Cody around the city, he realizes that she's actually a bad driver. They eventually stop at the beach and there Natalie and Cody confess their love for each other. In a bid to uncover Eeris's evil plans, the CIA sends Cody to get closer to Connor<unk>'s daughter, Natalie.

Even though Cody initially struggles to talk to Natalie. They end up falling for each other. Unfortunately, Cody's cover gets blown after a fight with some bullies, and he's pulled off the case. Natalie gets kidnapped after this, and even though Cody is told to stand down, he sets out with Ronica to save Natalie and stop Rinkman's plan.

Things don't go well at first, but Cody eventually succeeds and gets praised by the CIA director.

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Agent Cody Banks (2003)

PG · 102 min · Action, Adventure, Comedy · 14 Mar 2003
5.2/1039,697 ratings41Metascore

A government agent trains Cody Banks in the ways of covert operations that require younger participants.

Director Harald Zwart

Writers Ashley E. Miller, Zack Stentz, Scott Alexander

Stars Frankie Muniz, Hilary Duff, Andrew Francis

United States, Canada · English

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