‘Spy x Family Code: White’ Review: Espionage and Culinary Adventure Collide in an Amusing Anime Spinoff
variety.comSiddhant Adlakha “Spy x Family Code: White” is a fun, accessible jumping-on point for anyone unfamiliar with the “Spy x Family” anime, or the manga on which it’s based.
However, in slowing down to let newcomers catch up, it tends to lack momentum. The plot isn’t strictly tied to the the comic or the show’s two seasons (it’s yet to be renewed for a third), but it picks up with the same basic premise: a found family with secret lives and abilities, which they keep guarded from one another, while a non-specific political conflict looms on the horizon.
Released theatrically in both dubbed and subtitled versions, the standalone film plays like an extended filler episode of a sitcom steeped in verbal misunderstandings, though that isn’t always a bad thing.
The lead trio in this “Three’s Company” dynamic — papa spy Loid Forger (Takuya Eguchi), his secret assassin wife Yor (Saori Hayami) and their adopted telepathic four-year-old Anya (Atsumi Tanezaki) — have been pretending to be a family for so long that the ruse has begun to feel real.
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