Men in Black II
2002  PG-13  COMEDY  1h 28min
CAST— Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville, Rosario Dawson, Tony Shalhoub, Rip Torn
MUSIC— Danny Elfman  DIRECTOR— Barry Sonnenfeld  BASED ON— Characters appearing in Malibu Comics

     Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith are back in black as agents K and J in this inferior sequel to Men in Black (1997). The menace this time around is Serleena, an alien in the guise of an underwear model. But don’t let the cleavage and lack of warm clothing fool you; she means business. She’s looking for an alien relic, the Light of Zartha, and she lets nothing stand in her way. J needs to find K (who has been neuralized, remember), bring him back to MIB, restore his memory, and search for clues to find the Light before Serleena finds it and destroys the world. All in a day’s work for MIB. Popular characters Jeebs, Frank the pug, and the worm guys are back as well as all new alien creations, but the movie tends to be dumber than it should be. It’s watchable and can be fun, but it seems to be made just for laughs (not to mention lingerie), lacking the originality of the first film.
OUR RATING— **
PRECEDED BY— Men in Black (1997)
FOLLOWED BY— Men in Black 3 (2012)