Hehe, I kinda loved this and really didn’t expect to. I turned very early on when there’s a really fake looking shot of a couple of seagulls who turn their heads as a motorcycle chase passes them and, even despite its fakeness, it just made me giggle for reasons unknown and I just transformed into a little kid and knew I was gonna enjoy it from then on. The movie resembles, obviously, a young James Bond, there’s an element of Harry Potter too which the movie nicely namechecks (“So what’s this place? Hogwarts?”) ... mostly it’s the British Agent Cody Banks ... well, that is, Cody Banks 2: Destination London – and where that movie had British has-been Hannah Spearitt, we get American has-been Alicia Silverstone (using ‘has-been’ in the wonderfully positive William Shatner sense, of course), and the similarities don’t end there. The style reminded me of Robert Rodriguez’ Spy Kids series too. The cast is brilliant from a fleeting Ewan McGregor (really, don’t see it just ‘cos you’re a fan of his, lol, it’s truly, truly fleeting) to Bill Nighy, Jimmy Carr, Robbie Coltrane, Sophie Okonedo, Mickey Rourke, Andy Serkis and a frighteningly older Sarah Bolger (one of the little girls from In America). Then there’s Stephen Fry, who will make the year of anyone who misses the Q scene from this year’s Bond movie – where better to house the gadgets guy of the teenage 007? Hamley’s of course!

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