Movie Review: Spy x Family Code: White (2023)

Spy x Family Code: White (2023) directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi and Takashi Katagiri

Based on the hit manga series and the hit anime series, this film presents a stand-alone story in the lives of the Forger family. Loid Forger is a super-spy for fictional country Westalis. He is on Operation Strix, trying to gain the trust of Donovan Desmond. His main approach is through Desmond's young son Damian who is at a prestigious school. To infiltrate the school, he poses as a family man, making a deal Yor Briar to pretend to be his wife (though she is really the elite assassin "Thorn Princess"). They adopt Anya from an orphanage to be a student at the school (though she has telepathic abilities and can read minds). They also have a dog named Bond (though he is a former military test animal who can see the future, which only works in the story since Anya can telepathically read his visions of what will happen). 

Anya's school is running a dessert-making contest that will be judged by the school's director. Loid knows from his files that the director's favorite dessert is an old-fashioned dish served in a northern region of the country. The family travels north to sample it and get ideas so Anya can practice cooking it before the big day at school. As happens to this family, a whole other spy mission springs up causing mayhem, excitement, danger, and comedy. A lot of events are very improbable, but the whole basis is extremely improbable. The story is fun and the characters are endearing. If you've liked either of the series, this is more of the same entertaining storytelling.

Recommended.