Men in Black 2 by Barry Sonnenfeld (2002)
12 November 2006The enjoyable sequel to the first MIB film picks up 6 years after the last. It is not quite as enjoyable as the first film, but still an enjoyable popcorn film overall with great effects and of course the return of the 2 excellent leads. Well worth seeing if you liked the first film.
Agent Jay (Will Smith) returns, after 6 years without his former partner, he keeps mind zapping his partners because they don’t add up. Then an Alien Serleena (Lara Flynn Boyle) comes to earth searching for something called the Light of Zarthos, and J meets Laura Vasquez (Rosario Dawson) who he can’t seem to erase her memory, and to save the earth from Serleena needs to get back his old partner, agent Kay (Tommy Lee Jones).
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J’s boss Zed (Rip Torne) partners J up with Frank the pug (Tim Blaney) to go find K. He heads to Massachusetts and finds his old partner as Kevin Brown the head of the Truro Post Office. Kevin’s wife has left him because he is so strange, but he doesn’t believe J, until J shows him that all the postal employees are in fact aliens. They head back to MIB to get K’s brain de-nueralized, but the headquarters is attacked by Serleena who takes over and releases all the prisoners.
K and J are flushed and escape, so they head to Jack Jeebs’ (Tony Shalhoub) who has a bootleg de-nueralizer, and they run it on K, but it doesn’t seem to work and he leaves, but J is attacked by the escaped alien cons before K returns to help his old partner. He is back, but has some memory problems, because he previously neuralized himself, but left himself clues. They go to see Laura and leave her with the alien worms, and head out to get weapons and find out more of K’s memory. K gets his memory back, and knows what to do, so they go to get Laura, but Serleena already has her at MIB and is planning on sending her into space, so J goes to rescue her, while K fights Serleena. They both win, but Serleena survives and J and K take Laura to a a launch point dictated by her bracelet, as it turns out that she is the Light of Zarthos, and J must let the woman he loves go to save the Earth and Zarthos both.
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An enjoyable film if not nearly as good as the first film. Better effects, but the ending seems a bit anticlimactic.
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