Men In Black 2 | | Cast : | Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith | | Director : | Barry Sonnenfeld | | Studio : | Columbia Tri-Star | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | July 03, 2002 | | DVD Released Date : | August 05, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | July 01, 2005 | | Summary | Men of laughs | Content
 | Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones return to their Ray-Ban glasses and Armani suits in the 1997 sequel of Men in Black.
New creatures, special effects and lots of humor characterize this adventure of director Barry Sonnenfeld. Capturing the ability of its predecessor, the movie finds a way to play with the relationship between agents J and K.
The movie starts with J, who has been going through a lot of partners since J retired. A new villain named Serleena comes to Earth looking for something called Zartha's light, and the only one who can stop her is K. Obviously, the agent returns to MIB headquartes and alongside partner J, will try to stop Serleena.
MIB2 exploits comedy from K's amnesia and how he assumes the leader role in his partnership with J. On the screen, Jones and Smith relieve his weird chemistry and take us to the crazy infiltrated-alien city of Manhattan.
The movie clearly was made to get more money out of its predecessor, but at least is not cynic. The complete lack of seriousness is a favorable quality in MIB2, because is in sync with its intention: get easy laughs from the spectator.
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| Rating | | | Date | June 20, 2005 | | Summary | Not Nearly as Good as the Original | Content
| The story's entertaining and there are plenty of laughs, but the original was way better. Still, I'm glad they made this movie and I'm glad I saw it. It isn't so bad that MIB III is out of the question (I hope). |
| Rating | | | Date | June 15, 2005 | | Summary | re-tread sequel | Content
| MiB2 was fun to watch, but when it's over, it's hard to separate the flick from the first movie which it follows in just about every way - with the painful exception of just how edgy its premise was at first. For anybody who forgot (or has been "neuralized"), the MiB are a hyper-secret bureaucracy that monitors aliens on Earth, while preventing any other Earthlings from doing the same. The joke is 2-fold: while hidden, the aliens themselves are so prevalent among us that there's no mystery to them at all, and the fact that Earth is surrounded by myriads of powerful and oft hostile alien civilizations is an acceptable fact of life, as long as nobody on Earth finds out about it. The punch-line of each joke is that, if you think somebody's either an alien or one of the Men in Black, you're probably right (pop-stars, mail men, politicians...) The other joke is that MiB is the latest in a short line of films that combine the esoteric (alien civilizations) with the mundane (a huge government bureaucracy with no oversight) - the other great example was "Ghostbusters", with pre-modern demigods and the legions of the dead having to battle a blue-collar exterminators.
As in the first flick, the joke works too well - if aliens are Earth's worst secret, why bother to keep it secret at all? (The joke might work if the script gave our heroes more inventive ways to keep spectacular extra-terrestrials secret, instead of merely wiping clean the minds of witnesses using handheld flash-bulbs called "neuralizers") As in the first flick (deja-vu?) Agent J (Will Smith) and Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) must prevent an evil alien from obtaining a powerful weapon with which to conquer the universe. Only Agent K knows the location of "The Light" - which was thought to have been launched into space by K years ago (in an incident comparable to an interstellar Potstdam, and immortalized in a cheesy amateur documentary by underground UFO watchers; apparently, the makers of the documentary weren't neuralized - which only raises the question of why anybody bothers to even try wiping clean those ridiculous and unbelievable memories). Seerlana (Lara Flynn Boyle) - an evil alien who manages to stay sultry even when she's got tendrils sprouting from everywhere - wants the light, and moves to conquer MiB HQ in her bid to extract its location from K's mind. (The ease with which she overruns HQ is only one more sign of the script's lameness).
Unfortunately, as in the last film, the script's conceit works against itself: the MiB work so hard to convince you there's no alien menace, that you begin to believe them - and soon forget the story. Spectacular FX are undermined by our everybody's' unwillingness to be bowled over by anything. The script does make great use of Tommy Lee Jones as the perfect interstellar bureaucrat and Will Smith as the "new hotness". The story could have used more of Rip Torn, and whatever Linda Fiorentino asked for, they should have paid. In short, I finished this flick wondering if I'd been neuralized. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 04, 2005 | | Summary | 4.5 stars: a funny and entertaining sci-fi comedy! | Content
| When this long-awaited sequel to 1997's Men In Black was released in July 2002, it was not very well recieved by critics or audiences. But it managed to make 190 million US dollars at the box office. While that was not up to par with the 250 million of Men In Black I, it was still a good profit. Frankly, I think this is just as good as the first. The FX are better, along with one or two more action sequences then the first. I like this movie, but it seems everyone else hates it. But if you haven't seen this movie yet, don't pay attention to all those one and two-star reviews. This is one heckuva movie! |
| Rating | | | Date | April 15, 2005 | | Summary | Plain Old Good | Content
| This is a great movie to just sit back relax and watch. There is something about it that is just relaxing and immersive to me. FINE, I admit, it was not as good as the first one, but it, in no way, deserves less than three stars. It is still totally funny, interesting, true to the old men in black style, and just plain old good. I cracked up more than once with this movie. It has a lot of rewatch value in it, so it should last a while. It's good stuff. Watch it. |
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