Disclaimer, this is a joke based on an error on Amazon's listed rating.
Hey everyone, I was searching through Amazon to find some movies to watch while I do my busy work on Monday and I came across this little oddity. Back in the early 2000s it was not uncommon for would be children's movies to be extra edgy; Josie and the Pussycats was originally PG-13, and Scooby Doo was originally going to be R, Inspector Gadget has scenes that had to be cut, and similar. Well little did we know, Agent Cody Banks was also originally rated R but was edited down to get a PG rating. It was unknown in fact until it quietly surfaced on Amazon Prime Video. When I saw that they had the R-rated version, I knew I had to see it and compare it to the original. I wouldn't say that I was "a major Cody Banks" fan, but I rented it a number of times and would say that I know it pretty well. OK, so let's dive into what this movie has to offer for an edgy R-rated spy comedy. When looking at the content description that pops up, it says so for sensuality and flashing lights, so let's see what kind of sensual content this bad boy has.
So in the first 5 or so minutes the younger brother is roasting Cody about how he's had more dates than him. Cody says "playing in the treehouse doesn't count," and the brother says "it does when you're playing doctor." Oh man, that's a highly suggestive joke right there, what kind of "doctor" are they doing?
Second, before Cody's training is activated, his team mates are making fun of him in the locker room. His handler/partner walks in wearing a skin tight jump suit while "hot in here" plays, that's a pretty explicit song that's all about getting naked. Then when a team mate is hitting on her she pulls off his towel exposing him, and then another kid says "if you're pulling towels, how about you pull mine." That's some pretty sexually charged stuff right there.
Then when Cody is getting his gear he gets glasses with low level x-ray vision, that he then uses to look at his partner. That's a sex joke right there. And later in the movie he uses his x-ray glasses to look at his classmate's underwear. Very explicit.
"How to talk to a girl" is where it's really heavy. There's a hologram woman that hits on Cody and he can't talk to her. That's some kind of explicit fantasy. There's also a scientist that's showing off an anatomical manakin of a woman and he's waving around the breast muscles of the manakin talking about how they'll make you go wild. Oh man, that's something right there.
It's not just this though, there's also the driving instructor telling Cody his job is to weed out the drug using teenagers, and then before Cody cuts the instructor break line he says "damn." That's some serious stuff right there. There's also at the end when the villain gets killed by the nanobots eating him from the inside, and we see it happen.
Oh man, this is quite the explicit edition right there. No wonder this was edited down to get a PG rating. The changes are really subtle, almost indistinguishable from the theatrical cut, but it's right there on the listing. I also can't believe that no one on the lost media wiki ever documented this version that has gone unnoticed, or that people like RebelTaxi never talked about this edition. Well, here I am spreading the word that amazon prime video has the unknown R-rated cut of Agent Cody Banks, right there.
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