Men in Black 3
2012  PG-13  COMEDY  1h 46min
CAST— Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement, Michael Stuhlbarg, Emma Thompson, Alice Eve, Bill Hader, Nicole Scherzinger, David Rasche
MUSIC— Danny Elfman  DIRECTOR— Barry Sonnenfeld  BASED ON— Characters appearing in Malibu Comics

     Agents J and K (Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones) return for a less than inspired third outing in this, the latest MIB adventure. When a grotesque extraterrestrial villain named Boris the Animal escapes from a maximum security lunar prison he changes the course of history by time-jumping to 1969 and killing K, thereby allowing Boris’ alien species to launch an invasion of Earth. Or something. Anyway, J travels back to ’69, joins forces with a younger version of K (played to utter perfection by a stony Josh Brolin) and attempts to right the little hiccup in time. J and K have definitely seen better days, battled better enemies and quipped better one-liners. Not as tired as the first sequel but still a bit lazy.
OUR RATING— ** ½
PRECEDED BY— Men in Black (1997), Men in Black II (2002)