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Spies in Disguise

Catholic News Service

In this animated comic adventure, a superspy (voice of Will Smith) and a tech geek (voice of Tom Holland) team up to fight an international group of villains (the most prominent voiced by Ben Mendelsohn). But their mission is complicated by the fact that one of the lab whiz’s experiments has gone awry, transforming the agent into a small blue pigeon. The pace is rapid while the premise is vapid, but small children are unlikely to mind. Directors Nick Bruno and Troy Quane, working from a screenplay by Brad Copeland and Lloyd Taylor, somehow manage to let learning take place, too, even if that means occasional lessons in pigeon ingestion.

Watch out for: Some intense action sequences and digestion-themed dialogue.

Rated: A-II, adults and adolescents; MPAA: PG

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