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Men in Black II

Men in Black II (2002)

July. 03,2002
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6.2
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PG-13
| Action Comedy Science Fiction

Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIB's untarnished mission statement – protecting Earth from the scum of the universe. It's been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. Now it's a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay – who not only has absolutely no memory of his time spent with the MIB, but is also the only living person left with the expertise to save the galaxy – to reunite with the MIB before the earth submits to ultimate destruction.

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adonis98-743-186503
2002/07/03

Agent J needs help so he is sent to find Agent K and restore his memory. As a huge fan of this Series there was no way that i wasn't going to enjoy 'Men in Black II' and despite all the negative things that are being said about it it's a pretty damn cool sequel. It has a great soundtrack just like the original, Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith are once again freaking amazing both the action part and the comedic part plus the cgi are much better and improved this time around. As for the villain? Lara Flynn Boyle did a terrific job as Serleena and she is definitely the type of antagonist that looks can definitely kill and even Johnny Knoxville was pretty damn funny with his part. In my opinion much better than Part I. (10/10)

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slightlymad22
2002/07/04

Continuing my plan to watch every Will Smith movie in order, I come to Men In Black 2Plot In A Paragraph: Agent J (Will Smith) needs help so he is sent to find Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) and restore his memory.After two great performances, it's disappointing seeing Will Smith back to just playing himself. But those movies under performed at the Box Office and he was in need of a hit movie after 3 flops in a row. Dull, bland, generic and pretty boring. It doesn't make the most of the chemistry between Smith and Jones, has a weak villain and even the special effects are nothing special. Men In Black 2 grossed $190million to end the year the 8th highest grossing movie of 2002.

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ElMaruecan82
2002/07/05

I just watched "Princess Mononoke" this weekend. What's that got to do with "Men in Black II"? Nothing, these movies don't play in the same league and shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence. But they have one thing in common: they both feature mysterious and fearsome creatures and the enjoyment of these two films is somewhat dependent on how believable they look. "MIIB" might be Sci-fi comedy but the Sci-fi label implies a minimum of suspension of disbelief. It's better to laugh at something that you took seriously in the first place.Well, "MIIB" is a real step backward when compared to the original 1997 movie but there's never a single moment in the film where nothing didn't look like a CGI abomination, I don't think they even tried to make it believable. Tentacles are recurring physical assets when it comes to the bad aliens; but in the film, they look like what an intern in George Lucas Studios would have produced before being kicked out. Watching the tentacles on that God-boar demon in the opening of "Mononoke" was like admiring a Rembrandt painting in comparison. But I wouldn't have cared much about the special effects if the film still had 'the' special effect, the 'secret element' that whispers to your mind "who cares? Just enjoy the goddamn thing". Here again, the film never tries to get off the shadow of the 1997 hit, there's not a single part of the story that doesn't rely on what happens in the first, but a good sequel is a movie you can enjoy without seeing the first, one that would work as a great film in its own right. No chance with this one, to get the references, you need to see the first, if you enjoy the first, you won't love the second, you won't prefer it anyway. So, I'm asking: what's the point of making a sequel if you're not even embracing the possibility that it can be more popular than the first? If improving isn't part of the challenge, why bother? Actually, the plot (or lack of) shows how much determined they were to surpass the original.The set-up involves another Earth-destruction menace, due to a sort of mysterious star or light a shape-changing Alien must get. The alien takes the form of a Victoria's Secret model and is played by Lara Flynn Boyle, the only gag that could have resulted from her sexiness is used in the start. After that, she's just a sexy villain (not very convincing though) and the two-headed sidekick played by Johnny Knoxville, plays the Vincent d'Onofrio part, but there's no gag that will feel original. The character of Stereo from "Space Goofs" was far more innovative.How about Kay and Jay, the plot uses a few contrivances that makes the come-back of Jay necessary. Naturally, we learn that there's something called a deneuralyzer and good old Jeebs (Tony Shalhoub) is the one who can provide the service, two birds with the same stone, we'll get the head-splattering gag as an extra. That's what "MIIB" does, as if it followed the lazy section of "Sequel for Dummies", they use the same tricks with a few variations. Of course, some parts are funny, of course, there's an element of enjoyment in watching good old Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones playing with the big guns again, to see Rip Torn, the worm guys and even Michael Jackson's cameo but the heart isn't in it, and speaking of hart, even the romantic subplot with Rosario Dawson felt forced and dull.I read that they had to rework the climax because of the World Trade Center attacks, which reminded me of a film that suffered from the same issue: "Die Hard 3" which had to end on a weak and predictable shootout because the original sequence involved a building explosion, and it was after the Oklahoma bombing. At least, the rest of the film was good, that "MIIB" couldn't even have a mind-blowing climax makes the whole experience inferior to the first on every level.The only gag that works is the locker one, if the rest was half as good, the film would have been a good sequel, but about "MIIB", one could paraphrase the famous quote from the 1997 film and see that its merit is to make the original look good.

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Filipe Neto
2002/07/06

In this movie, we return to the world of MIB to follow a crisis where, business as usual, the Earth can be destroyed by aliens who are very angry with us. In the first line of defense is Agent Jay (Will Smith), that we saw in the first movie. Now he is a senior officer with much experience in his work, however, he will need the help of his former partner, Kay (Tommy Lee Jones) who is retired and whom the memory has been erased. Its a sequel to the first film, made a few years later and keeping the same actors and director. The script, this time, its signed by Robert Gordon.Like many sequels, this one failed to keep the original movie level. If the first film was a comedy that worked well, this one barely works as comedy, focusing too much on a kind of "re-reading" and "rewriting" of situational and contextual jokes that we saw in the first film. So, who saw the first may not find funny the second one. It's like eating every day the same dinner: sickens and loses joke. Not much to talk about the interpretations of two protagonists: both kept well their characters and, if the film didn't please someone, probably the fault was not theirs but the one who wrote the dialogs and jokes. What saves the film from being a total and complete failure are the massive special effects (they always sell) and the romantic sub-plot associated with Kay's past, who gives some dramatic depth to the story.When we watch the release of a sequel there are always two possible justifications. First: critics loved the first film and this has resulted in awards and notoriety; second: the audience loved the first film and this has resulted in a commercial success, a blockbuster. Personally, I think this sequel was launched with only one objective: to profit at the expenses of those who liked the first film. Its the cinema industry making money as best she knows. It's pity.

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