My Spy: The Eternal City

It was a fun watch. I enjoyed the original movie and I enjoyed this. Just a fun family movie with some decent action. I will say that when Anna Faris first showed up, I didn't even recognize her, which I think is pretty cool for someone who always seems to have a similar performance. Nothing special about the story of course with this kind of movie, but there's still plenty of fun to be had here.

Nearly equals the first. Ken Jeong is probably the best part.

Mission Impossible for an younger audience. Or for those that prefer Dave Bautista! Felt like they almost pulled it off, but there are those little things that prevents it from feeling like it's a bigger action flick, along with that lack of originality. Did have Bautista chasing the Popemobile, so I'm not going to say I wasn't entertained.

The formula falters when the Precocious Kid is replaced by an Angsty Teen, but once the pace and comedy picks up at the Peppa Pig scrubs (best moment), it delivers success again, but never to the same pure heights as its predecessor. Still, it's fun.

This movie is made for 10 year old girls. It was trite and tiresome.

A plague of poor plot & script decisions make this movie merely serviceable. My biggest disappointment was that instead of pitting girl Chloe vs her dad JJ (à la Mr+Mrs Smith, Hobbs/Shaw, &c) in the background of a school trip (and a low-stakes spy mission), it defaults to an extremely rote adventure with "spy" theming. I want to believe it's winking at Mission Impossible, but it's just predictable and soulless.