My Spy: The Eternal City

The action’s routine (as is the norm for this sub-genre) and the spy plot skimps on mystery and twists. But Bautista and Coleman maintain their winning rapport from the first film, and Schaal’s inappropriate comments never fail to amuse. It’s just about enough.

My Spy: The Eternal City is an underwhelming action-comedy sequel that is best as a covert coming-of-age tale, but more frequently suffers as a grab-bag of tonality that abandons what helped My Spy succeed in the first place.

The Eternal City struggles with finding the tonal balance between a child-friendly action-comedy and an adult-appropriate action-comedy.

My Spy: The Eternal City is tailor-made for an awkward family movie night: too violent and suggestive for elementary schoolers, too dumb for teenagers, and too confusingly joke-free for adults expecting a comedy.

There are some nice enough performances, particularly from Ken Jeong as JJ’s CIA boss and Anna Faris playing the high school deputy principal leading the choir trip. But tonally the movie is all over the place.

My Spy The Eternal City is so unconcerned with its obligations as an action-comedy that it fails to either thrill or amuse, making it a chore to actively pay attention to.

My Spay: The Eternal City is derailed by how readily it succumbs to the ludicrousness of a plot that generates stakes that are far too heavy for the threadbare structure to support.

(Mauro Lanari) So derivative that it transcends my cognitive abilities of discernment in the overdose of cinematic clones.

This was…not so good. A little too much teenage love and slow scenes for me. It’s like every time there was a little bit of action, it would just stop and the scenes would just fall flat.

As locações estão lindas, mas o roteiro é tão bagunçado, que cansa e se torna chato, até porque não funciona nem como ação e muito menos como comédia, mas pelo mistério mesmo, e pra piorar os vilões são terríveis. A química entre o elenco, no entanto, é admirável, o que segura as pontas de um filme ruim.

I’m not really sure who the target audience was for this. It was stupid and cheesy in a way I thought it was targeted at kids. But then had violence and profanity that made it seem more appropriate for an older audience. Either way it failed