But we do Wordle!

That’s how former secret agent Matt (Jamie Foxx) explains that he and wife Emily (Cameron Diaz) are now living a boring, mundane life and nobody would ever be looking for them.

Matt’s explanation obviously doesn’t work because within a moment he and Emily are, yes, “Back in Action.” Back in movies after more than a decade, Diaz retains her easy charm and sparks good chemistry with Foxx.

But this doesn’t mean their lines are funny or logical. Often, they are neither.

We start 15 years ago, in a pre-credits sequence featuring our ultra-cool co-spies (also lovers). Their job is to pose as French arms dealers visiting the home of a shadowy Russian terrorist — then break into a safe and steal a key to the entire world’s infrastructure, or something.

On the private jet headed back home, Emily reveals a secret we already knew: Her home pregnancy test was positive. Matt says he’s all in. And then all heck breaks loose and they end up needing to kill a bunch of people and parachute into the mountains. It’s funny when Matt observes: “We can’t keep doing this, especially with that baby on the way.”

Flash forward 15 years and the couple, having gone underground, live in a comfy suburban house with two lovely teenagers. Matt coaches the soccer team. The teens, Alice and Leo (McKenna Roberts and Rylan Jackson), are not aware of their parents’ past; Matt and Emily want their lives to be normal.

Director Seth Gordon, who co-wrote the script with Brendan O’Brien, has said he was aiming to explore what might happen when spies become parents. (This was brilliantly addressed in “The Americans” on FX.) Now, without knowing any spy couples, I’m pretty sure what happens is not that the parents become so uncool so quickly that they buy binoculars on Amazon to spy on their daughter’s social life from the car at school dropoff. Guys, at least hide so she doesn’t see you. Did CIA training teach you nothing?

Equally unartful is the way they explain their past to their kids. We join this conversation as the kids wonder why Dad was speaking Russian to the air conditioning guy. The parents explain that they picked it up during their time in the Peace Corps. But they don’t have their story straight: Were they in Colombia, Belize or Russia? Again, they had 15 years to get this straight.

All is peaceful in suburbia, except Emily is having trouble connecting with Alice. She’s also getting bored and wonders if she and Matt can briefly skip down to South America and stop a coup somewhere. Then the doorbell rings with a long-lost contact, and soon Matt and Emily are dragged back in, and the whole fam is on the run.

You also should know that Emily has a past with a jealous MI6 agent (Andrew Scott) and a complicated relationship with her mother (Glenn Close), who was also a spy.

The action comes fast and furious, and the banter is pleasant enough. Diaz, especially, makes the proceedings decently enjoyable and some of the sillier lines believable.

It all leads to some predictable questions: Will Emily and her estranged mother find some common ground? Will the kids come to understand their parents? Will Emily and Alice forge a truce? Will a good time be had and lessons learned on the family adventure?

Also, what’s Matt’s Wordle streak?

MPA rating: PG-13 (for sequences of violence and action, some suggestive references and strong language, and brief teen partying)

Running time: 1:54

How to watch: Netflix