The movie's smart, funny and fairly forgettable.
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02/09/06
Men in Black II (2002)
38 %
Reviews Counted: 184 Fresh: 70 Rotten:114 Average Rating: 5.2/10
Consensus:
Lacking the freshness of the first movie, MIB 2 recycles elements from its predecessor with mixed results.
Runtime: 88 mins
Synopsis: Reuniting director Barry Sonnenfeld with most of the original hit film's cast, MEN IN BLACK II picks up with alien-monitoring secret agent Jay (Will Smith) in a rut. Weary of the isolated life of an MiB operative, Jay continually fires new partners until MiB director Zed (Rip Torn) teams him up... [More]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Rosario Dawson, Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Screenwriter: Robert Gordon, Barry Fanaro
Producer: Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald
Composer: Danny Elfman
Screenwriter: Robert Gordon, Barry Fanaro
Producer: Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald
Composer: Danny Elfman
Reviews
Top Critic
The problem with the sequel is that Jones is missing from the action for too long.
12/15/03
Strange, zany, generally amusing and very likeable without actually being all that hilarious or surprising.
12/23/02
Top Critic
If you liked the first film, then you’ll like the sequel, but it’s neither as exciting nor as out-and-out funny as it should be.
10/30/02
It's kinda colourful and bouncy, and it features a lot of cool-looking aliens, but rather than expanding on the aesthetics of the first movie, it copies and dilutes them.
09/09/02
Top Critic
Less interesting second time around, this sequel suffers most from the diminished chemistry of the leads.
07/30/02
This is effective button-pushing sci-fi entertainment, but you won't need to be neurolized to forget it.
07/14/02
Top Critic
The down-home satire of how we cope with cultural difference has evaporated, replaced by jazzy effects that wear out their welcome by the halfway mark.
04/18/07
Men in Black II could care less whether you believe in it or not, or frankly, whether you bought the ticket and spent your time on the concession line trying to buy Goobers.
11/02/05
The acting is good, the direction is good, the special effects are great, only the jokes are a little flat and far between and nothing very original is offered up here.
09/30/05
This film is so full of special effects that it seems as if there are only about seven minutes of actual story-telling from which to decipher a plot.
10/07/04
We watch and think, 'Yeah. So? What else can they do?' It's not that it's dull so much as that it's familiar.
07/24/04
Men in Black II doesn't replicate the blithely funny and hip attitude of the original.
06/23/04
Like a lot of the movie, the special effects are ‘been there, done that.’
05/09/04
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