So, they made another Men in Black movie. It's actually a little surprising to me, considering that it had been 10 years since MIB II and if memory serves, it wasn't really all that well received. At least by me. I didn't care for #2...it seemed the story really wasn't that great and it wasn't as much fun as the first one. Actually, I can remember nothing about #2, other than J went to find K who was working at the post office with a bunch of aliens...I don't remember the main villain or anything. Needless to say, didn't even see it in the theatre which is dry, considering Men in Black 1 was one of my first DVD's. So, I went to see this one and you know what?
It actually was pretty good! I don't think it was as good as the first one for sure, that movie is just so much fun, it's ridiculous. However, this one is pretty good, nevertheless. There's a ton of aliens again and there's a lot of humour as well, I think the humour fell sort of flat in MIB 2, but it really works on this one. I find that Smith and Jones are pretty good foils for one another and the fact that Tommy Lee Jones plays everything dead straight no matter how ridiculous the situation is just awesome. His eulogy for Zedd is great!
I was a little nervous about him going back in time because you would lost the whole Smith/Jones dynamic and it's true, I don't think Brolin and Smith are as good together as Smith and Jones, but then again, Jones' face is impossible to duplicate. I will say this for Brolin though, his impression of Tommy Lee Jones is scary and I mean SCARY good. When he was talking, if you closed your eyes, you would think it was Tommy Lee Jones speaking. It's that insane.
The storyline is okay, the main villain is actually really memorable (the wildman Kieran from Dinner for Schmucks) and it has a nice nostalgia to it as most of the film takes place in 1969. That means the MIB run into Andy Warhol, there's more racism, the cars are different, the technology is different, it's just a different time and place and I guess it was one way to breathe life back into the franchise. To be honest, I think this might be the end of the Men in Black films, at least in this incarnation and if so, then they wrapped everything up really well.
If you skipped this one because you weren't that impressed with #2, that's perfectly understandable. Men in Black II was a huge misstep, but they're back with a vengeance in this one and they really went out and tried to make this movie fun again. There's a lot of aliens, there's gadgets and there's laughs. That's all you really need in these types of movies. So, catch in on DVD if you can, it's one of those movies that doesn't try and be anything other than a fun movie and really, what more can you ask?
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars.
- Stephenstein
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