The Spy Next Door (PG) **
Jackie Chan may be comfortably in his 50s, but he still manages to put many of the action genre's young pretenders to shame with his acrobatics in The Spy Next Door.
Targeted at families, Brian Levant's high-tech comedy marries the martial arts prowess of the leading man with slapstick and cartoon violence.
Special agent Bob Ho (Chan) is loaned from China to the CIA, working alongside his handlers Glaze (George Lopez) and Colton (Billy Ray Cyrus) to bring down criminal masterminds such as the nefarious Poldark (Magnus Scheving).
Pretending to be a pen importer, Bob has served his adopted country diligently.
But he decides to hang up his gadgets to pursue a burgeoning romance with pretty neighbour Gillian (Amber Valletta).
Any thoughts of domestic bliss are short-lived when Gillian is called away from home and Bob agrees to babysit Gillian's children – step-daughter Farren, son Ian and pink princess Nora.
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