Men in Black II (2002)

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

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.

I was really impressed by the first MIB movie with its good story and the terrific special effects to carry it. This movie is no exception. Everything that made the first movie great is back, plus they delve deeper into things they should have done in the first movie. The Pug for one and the inter-workings of the MIB to name two. Will shines in his role, Tommy knocks me out with his dead pan delivery and together they blow me away, but the best thing is from giving the Pug more screen time. His singing is the funniest thing since ever. Tony Shalhoub and Rip Torn also highlight the movie; without them, there is no movie. Rosario Dawson highlights the movie as an innocent ingenue very well too. Lara Flynn-Boyle does nasty very well; I had a dirty little smirk when she said she could rule the world with the right size of mammies (being an alien as she was and using some computer graphics would have made for an even more interesting scene Ala The Benny Hill Show). The plot is great with its expectations and then twist to the end. Definitely a worth-see !

Men in Black II is a science fiction movie about the conspiracy theory of the men in black. The conspiracy theorist believe that these Men in black go around and take care of Americas most secret problems. In men in black II Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones return for the sequel of Men in Black. Like in the first movie they also confront aliens again for a second and far worst problem. Men in Black II is a great movie for three outstanding reasons the pace, the action and of course the acting.The pace for Men in Black II is very quick for an hour and twenty eight minute movie. From start to finish you will never catch your self checking your watch to see how much time is left in this movie. When the pace of the movie starts to slow, to build story, you still aren't caught in boring monologue for what seems like hours. The director does a great job of jumping seamlessly from a serious moment to a more comical moment. A lot of the excitement of the action is created because of the fantastic job done by the director with the pace.Thanks to the pace of the movie the action becomes more exciting. The action in this movie is just fantastic. We have all seen the movies that the action is way to far over the top, with destruction of whole cities and even whole countries. Well this movie has very believable action. The fight sciences between the men in black and the aliens is marvelous you never get bored with long elaborately choreographed fights. Now the icing on the cake, the acting. The acting in this movie is bar none. With big names like Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones how could the acting be bad. Will Smith has featured in great films like Focus, Independence day, I am Legend and I Robot. Will Smith is a proved actor who is at it again in this movie. Will Smiths costar is no slouch either Tommy Lee Jones has also stared in his own hand full of great movies like No Country for Old Men and Space Cowboys. So as you can see this movie has a very star studded cast.The question is would I recommend this movie? Yes I would definitely recommend this movie. I would recommend this movie to everyone because of the great pace the movie has that creates great action scene and even helps great actors seem like even better actors. If you have not seen this movie I recommend you stop what you are doing right now and go watch it you will get a laugh and you will learn of a whole new world of secrets kept hidden by the men in black.

Really lame and disappointing. Clearly made to cash in on original. Had only a few good lines and scenes in the entire movie. Thirty or forty years ago a movie like this would have been able to fly on its spectacular special effects alone, but nowadays that's not enough, and special effects is all this movie has going for it. Aside from Tommie Lee Jones scene-stealing, the best thing that can be said about this film is that it's short enough so that you don't feel you've lost too much of your life watching it, but, seriously, don't waste your time.