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In Theaters Now
- 2024
- PG-13
- Amazon Prime Video
- 1 h 52 m
- 2024
- PG-13
- Amazon Prime Video
- 1 h 52 m
Summary Veteran CIA operative JJ (Dave Bautista) and his 14-year-old stepdaughter and protégé Sophie (Chloe Coleman) reunite to save the world when a high school choir tour of Italy is interrupted by a nefarious nuclear plot targeting the Vatican.
Directed By: Peter Segal
Written By: Erich Hoeber, Jon Hoeber, Peter Segal
In Theaters Now
- 2024
- PG-13
- Amazon Prime Video
- 1 h 52 m
- 2024
- PG-13
- Amazon Prime Video
- 1 h 52 m
My Spy: The Eternal City
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4.8
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Summary Veteran CIA operative JJ (Dave Bautista) and his 14-year-old stepdaughter and protégé Sophie (Chloe Coleman) reunite to save the world when a high school choir tour of Italy is interrupted by a nefarious nuclear plot targeting the Vatican.
Directed By: Peter Segal
Written By: Erich Hoeber, Jon Hoeber, Peter Segal
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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67% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
33% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
36
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
67% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
33% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
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.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 User Ratings
4.8
40% Positive
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2 Ratings
40% Mixed
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20% Negative
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 User Ratings
4.8
40% Positive
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
40% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
20% Negative
1 Rating
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(Mauro Lanari)
So derivative that it transcends my cognitive abilities of discernment in the overdose of cinematic clones.
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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.
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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.