My Spy: The Eternal City
Amazon Prime Video | Release Date (Streaming): July 18, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
36
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
8
Negative:
4

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Total FilmJamie GrahamJul 17, 2024
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. Read full review
50
ColliderChase HutchinsonJul 17, 2024
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. Read full review
50
The New York TimesGlenn KennyJul 17, 2024
Too often this muddled movie, which never really settles on a tone, plays its espionage plot points with a dour seriousness that’s at odds with a teen comedy. Read full review
42
IndieWireKate ErblandJul 17, 2024
There’s just something retrograde about the entire thing, a copy of a copy, a “new” story with some very light edits to the “old” one, that bogs down even the lightest touches of merriment. Read full review
40
Screen RantFerdosa AbdiJul 19, 2024
The Eternal City struggles with finding the tonal balance between a child-friendly action-comedy and an adult-appropriate action-comedy. Read full review
40
VarietyOwen GleibermanJul 18, 2024
The film is light enough without being funny enough, most of it staged, by director Peter Segal (“Tommy Boy,” “The Naked Gun 33 1/3”), in a kind of generic action overdrive. Read full review
40
IGNJesse HassengerJul 17, 2024
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. Read full review
40
The GuardianCath ClarkeJul 17, 2024
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. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireJul 18, 2024
Anyone who’s dealt with a teenager can relate to the baffling surliness that emerges out of nowhere — but like needless sequels, this, too, shall pass. Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubLeigh MonsonJul 17, 2024
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. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreJul 21, 2024
[Segal's] no better than anyone else would be at wringing laughs from this crap script. Yes, he co-wrote it. But if enough people stream this on movie-content-starved Amazon Prime, maybe he’ll get another shot at getting a better movie out of this franchise. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineJake ColeJul 17, 2024
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. Read full review
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