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Movie Review for Men in Black II
Movie Review for
Men in Black II
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Men in Black II | | |
| Also known as: | Men in Black 2 |
154 Reviews total.
Release date: 7/3/2002
Run length: 82 mins.
Categories:
Action/Adventure
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Comedy
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Science Fiction/Fantasy
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Adaptation
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Sequel
Summary:
Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIBs untarnished mission statement: protecting the earth from the scum of the universe. It's been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. Kay has since returned to the comforts of civilian life while Jay continues to work for the Men In Black, the highly funded yet unofficial government agency that regulates all things alien on earth. While investigating a seemingly routine crime, Jay uncovers a diabolical plot masterminded by Serleena, an evil Kylothian monster who disguises herself as a sexy lingerie model. When Serleena takes the entire MIB building hostage, there is only one person left Jay can turn to-his former MIB partner who is now a drone in another large government office, the U.S. postal service, and prefers simple pleasures like his wife's cookies over standoffs with mammoth alien insects. It's a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay-who not only has absolutely no memory of his time spent with the Men In Black, but is also the only living person left with the expertise to save the galaxy-to reunite with the MIB before the earth submits to ultimate destruction.
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel
of 3BlackChicks Review (7/0)
MIB = MAB - Mediocrity At Best
By
Rebecca Murray
of About.com (7/0)
Smith and Jones pick up right where they left off, managing to recapture that same chemistry that...
By
Carlo Cavagna
of AboutFilm.com (7/0)
It's an 88-minute highlight reel that's 86 minutes too long.
By
Mike McGranaghan
of Aisle Seat (7/0)
Men in Black II is the rare sequel that makes me yearn for a Part III.
By
Chris Kaynes
of Apollo Guide (7/0)
Where Men in Black II falls short is in the writing, and this is a bit of a shock, considering th...
By
Terri Clark
of Apollo Guide (7/0)
Like a lot of the movie, the special effects are ‘been there, done that.’
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Philip Martin
of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (7/0)
...sit back and wonder at a system where a by-the-numbers sequel to a five-year-old effects-drive...
By
Jeanne Aufmuth
of Aufmuth.com (7/0)
The mark of a respectable summer blockbuster is one of two things: unadulterated thrills or genui...
By
Marc Savlov
of Austin Chronicle (7/0)
A welcome and nicely goofy bit of sci-fi froth with the occasional hint of genuine comic smarts.
By
Jordan Hiller
of Bangitout.com (7/0)
Men in Black II could care less whether you believe in it or not, or frankly, whether you bought ...
By
Andy Jacobs
of BBC (7/0)
This is effective button-pushing sci-fi entertainment, but you won't need to be neurolized to for...
By
Wilson Morales
of BlackFilm.com (7/0)
Men in Black II is back but with less pizzazz than the first one.
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Dan Marcucci and Nancy Serougi
of Broomfield Enterprise (7/0)
Is “Men in Black II” worth the price of admission? Uh, no. I wish I had spent the money on Fourth...
By
Jonathan Rosenbaum
of Chicago Reader (7/0)
The down-home satire of how we cope with cultural difference has evaporated, replaced by jazzy ef...
By
Roger Ebert
of Chicago Sun-Times (7/0)
'Men in Black II creates a new threat for the MIB, but recycles the same premise.
By
Michael Wilmington
of Chicago Tribune (7/0)
If you're looking for a movie as good as the first, you'd better rent 1997's MIB at the local vid...
By
Luanne Brown
of Chico Enterprise-Record (7/0)
“Men in Black II,” has all the earmarks of a sequel. The story is less vibrant, the jokes are a l...
By
Gloria Goodale
of Christian Science Monitor (7/0)
If the plot were any simpler, it wouldn't exist.
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Margaret A. McGurk
of Cincinnati Enquirer (7/0)
What's missing is the giddy sense of discovery that made the first movie so endearing.
By
Jules Brenner
of Cinema Signals (7/0)
Is it as good as the original? Given that what you're in for is no longer the surprise it was whe...
By
Karina Montgomery
of Cinerina (7/0)
If you have seen the preview, you have seen literally every funny moment.
By
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
of CNN.com (7/0)
A smart, witty follow-up.
By
Larry Carroll
of Countingdown.com (7/0)
After you laugh once (maybe twice), you will have completely forgotten the movie by the time you ...
By
Matthew Bond
of Daily Mail [UK] (7/0)
The problem with the sequel is that Jones is missing from the action for too long.
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Steven D. Greydanus
of Decent Films Guide (7/0)
Men in Black was a witty parody of "X-Files" paranoia and pop mythology. Men in Blac...
By
Jeff Vice
of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (7/0)
If this is the best sequel that the Men in Black filmmakers could come up with in five years, the...
By
Scott Weinberg
of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
This is a vapid and uninhabited wasteland of a film, a vacuum in which only a handful of product ...
By
Angie Errigo
of Empire Magazine (7/0)
Strange, zany, generally amusing and very likeable without actually being all that hilarious or s...
By
Owen Gleiberman
of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
Some motion pictures portray ultimate passion; others create ultimate thrills. Men in Black II ac...
By
Eric D. Snider
of EricDSnider.com (7/0)
We watch and think, 'Yeah. So? What else can they do?' It's not that it's dull so much as that it...
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Eugene Novikov
of Film Blather (7/0)
Without even a nominal attempt at a story line, it's all in-jokes and cocky stares.
By
Walter Chaw
of Film Freak Central (7/0)
If we don't demand a standard of quality for the art that we choose, we deserve the trash that we...
By
Doris Toumarkine
of Film Journal International (7/0)
As sequels go, the kid-friendly MIB II disappoints. The wit, drollness and cool of the debut inst...
By
John R. McEwen
of Film Quips Online (7/0)
Smith and Jones perform together as smoothly as if they never left the studio, and the script spa...
By
Ron Wells
of Film Threat (7/0)
There are plenty of crazy aliens, and a few jokes at the expense of the occasional celebrity. Too...
By
Christopher Null
of filmcritic.com (7/0)
Harmless, forgettable, and simply uninteresting in comparison to recent action flicks like Spider...
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Victoria Alexander
of FilmsInReview.com (7/0)
Yes, MIBII is rote work and predictable, but with a philosophical visual coming right at the end ...
By
Susan Michals
of FilmStew.com (7/0)
With MIB2, [Sonnenfeld] triumphs yet again in giving us a quick -- albeit silly -- cinematic fix.
By
Rob Vaux
of Flipside Movie Emporium (5/2)
You'll probably see worse films than Men in Black II this year, but won't see many as disappointi...
By
Eric Lurio
of Greenwich Village Gazette (7/0)
Begins to get tedious after a while. Fortunately, there's enough fun here to make the rest of it ...
By
Peter Bradshaw
of Guardian [UK] (7/0)
After five years, the chemistry has curdled.
By
Catherine Cantieri
of HoleCity.com (7/0)
Was that movie nothing more than a tepid exercise in trotting out a formula that worked five year...
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Ross Anthony
of Hollywood Report Card (7/0)
Sillier, cuter, and shorter than the first (as best I remember), but still a very good time at th...
By
Kirk Honeycutt
of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
Director Barry Sonnenfeld and company retain much of the rubbery alien slapstick humor.
By
David Poland
of Hot Button (7/0)
Men in Black 2 is a true “middle movie.” It is still lugging the furniture from the original, bu...
By
Bruce Westbrook
of Houston Chronicle (7/0)
MIB II is faithful to its source film, which in turn sprang from a comic book. But this feels mor...
By
Gary Brown
of Houston Community Newspapers (7/0)
The problem with MiB II is that, like Crocodile Dundee, much of the humor in the original was in ...
By
Steve Rhodes
of Internet Reviews (7/0)
Running a fast 88 minutes, it won't tax your seat or your brain. All you need to do is sit back ...
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
JoBlo
of JoBlo's Movie Emporium (7/0)
It's not a 'bad' movie per se, but it's a lot like watching the first one over again.
By
Bob Bloom
of Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (7/0)
As stale as last week's white bread.
By
James Sanford
of Kalamazoo Gazette (7/0)
While familiarity doesn't exactly breed contempt... there's not much here we haven't encountered ...
By
Andrea Chase
of Killer Movie Reviews (7/0)
[T]here are a few laughs, but there are zero surprises. . . when Michael Jackson makes a cameo as...
By
Chuck Stephens
of L.A. Weekly (7/0)
It isn't without a modicum of felicitous charms.
By
Robert Roten
of Laramie Movie Scope (7/0)
I thought the sequel is pretty similar in quality to the original. Perhaps not as funny, but with...
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Mark Dujsik
of Mark Reviews Movies (7/0)
A cynicism-generator. Suggests a big-budget scrounging for profit in almost every fiber of its b...
By
Rene Rodriguez
of Miami Herald (7/0)
Runs a quick 80 minutes and yet it still feels padded.
By
Duane Dudek
of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (7/0)
There is something perfunctory about the enterprise that suggests everyone is in it for a payday,...
By
Brian Orndorf
of Modamag.com (7/0)
Men In Black 2 is as joyless and strained as a sequel can get.
By
Ken Hanke
of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (7/0)
Sonnenfeld didn't shoot for the moon, and he didn't hit the stars. He shot for the safety net of ...
By
Frank Ochieng
of Movie Eye (7/0)
The Men in Black II are back to save us from the out-of-this-world vermin. But who's out to save ...
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Marty Mapes
of Movie Habit (7/0)
It's a fluffy treat that doesn't include anything substantial or wholesome, just sugar and MSG.
By
Nell Minow
of Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (7/0)
The sequel has flickers of the original spirit, but it is like a fifth generation photocopy, a bl...
By
Kevin A. Ranson
of MovieCrypt.com (7/0)
... short, strained, and tired. Just be sure to tiptoe out when you leave the theater so you don'...
By
Mark Ramsey
of MovieJuice! (7/0)
Tommy Lee Jones now works in the Post Office. There we learn that while foul weather cannot stop...
By
Jeremy Heilman
of MovieMartyr.com (7/0)
As bad a film as I've seen all year
By
Jorge Avila Andrade
of Moviola (7/0)
Más sarcástica, divertida y demencial que su predecesora, es un buen ejemplo de lo que es el cine...
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Widgett Walls
of Needcoffee.com (7/0)
Sloppy.
By
James Rocchi
of Netflix (7/0)
Big-budget sci-fi comedy sequel is very much more of the same -- which isn't necessarily a bad th...
By
Peter Rainer
of New York Magazine (7/0)
The hang-loose grodiness of [the Men in Black films] has its charms, and the Ray-Banned team of W...
By
A. O. Scott
of New York Times (7/0)
Within the trivial, ingratiating scope of its ambition, though, the sequel is pleasant enough. Th...
By
Jeffrey Westhoff
of Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) (7/0)
The original Men in Black also had a slim plot, but the movie had comic verve and enjoyable bypla...
By
Edward Johnson-Ott
of NUVO Newsweekly (7/0)
Lower your expectations. A lot. No, more than that.
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Frank Swietek
of One Guy's Opinion (7/0)
Fairly flat and joyless, more dutiful recreation than inspired rethinking...comes across as secon...
By
Tyler Hanley
of Palo Alto Weekly (7/0)
The chemistry between Smith and Jones is among the best of cinematic comedy duos, and the aliens ...
By
Sean Burns
of Philadelphia Weekly (7/0)
...the kind of movie you see because the theater has air conditioning.
By
Jon Popick
of Planet Sick-Boy (7/0)
The good news is that it's a lot better than the original. The bad news is that the original was...
By
Cynthia Fuchs
of PopMatters (7/0)
The sequel, for all its investment in digital effects and the efforts made to include Jones and S...
By
James Kendrick
of Q Network Film Desk (7/0)
everything that worked in the first movie basically falls flat here
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Andrew Manning
of Radio Free Entertainment (7/0)
If you enjoyed the first one, chances are you'll enjoy the second--after all, they're almost the ...
By
David Nusair
of Reel Film Reviews (7/0)
...less a sequel and more a remake...
By
Mary Kalin-Casey
of Reel.com (7/0)
Men in Black II is just the sort of film that mainstream audiences expect to escape to during the...
By
Laura Clifford
of Reeling Reviews (7/0)
Barry Sonnenfeld owes Frank the Pug big time
By
Robin Clifford
of Reeling Reviews (7/0)
The makers have forsaken the entertaining elements of the original and, instead, rehash old jokes...
By
Betty Jo Tucker
of ReelTalk Movie Reviews (7/0)
Plot assumes little importance here. It's those amazing creatures that count!
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
James Berardinelli
of ReelViews (7/0)
It's not nearly as fresh or enjoyable as its predecessor, but there are enough high points to kee...
By
Forrest Hartman
of Reno Gazette-Journal (7/0)
If comic camp and big-budget special effects leave you drooling, Men in Black II should offer wel...
By
Jack Garner
of Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (7/0)
As with most sequels, the buzz of originality is gone, but Sonnenfeld and his writers and actors ...
By
Peter Travers
of Rolling Stone (7/0)
As summer escapism goes, you could do worse.
By
Jim Lane
of Sacramento News & Review (7/0)
Robert Gordon and Barry Fanaro's script is so insubstantial it barely fills 80 minutes of running...
By
Jeff Stark
of Salon.com (7/0)
Instead of inhabiting the same world of his original, the delightful 1997 Men in Black, or invent...
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Jean Lowerison
of San Diego Metropolitan (7/0)
Grab some popcorn, put your brain in neutral and enjoy.
By
James O'Ehley
of Sci-Fi Movie Page (7/0)
Are they in it just for the money? A silly question since the movie's attitude is best summed up ...
By
Jim Judy
of Screen It! (7/0)
While not horrible, Men in Black II simply isn't as much fresh, entertaining or imaginative fun a...
By
Gina Carbone
of Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine) (7/0)
Like most sequels, it takes what worked last time, repeats it and adds more characters, more stun...
By
William Arnold
of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (7/0)
There's not a spark of new inspiration in it, just more of the same, done with noticeably less en...
By
Rich Cline
of Shadows on the Wall (7/0)
Just sit back and laugh. A lot.
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Ed Gonzalez
of Slant Magazine (7/0)
MIB II is so aware of itself as vaudeville spectacle that a pre-credit encore is inevitable.
By
Rob Blackwelder
of SPLICEDWire (7/0)
Men in Black II has sequel-itis something fierce. An ungainly, comedy-deficient, B-movie rush job...
By
John Urbancich
of Sun Newspapers of Cleveland (7/0)
Extra-terrestrials conquer the movie if not planet Earth in “Men in Black II,” a film that proves...
By
John Venable
of Supercala.com (7/0)
While a lot of the inventiveness is still there, much of the funny isn't.
By
Tony Toscano
of Talking Pictures (U.S.) (7/0)
Like most sequels Men in Black 2 doesn’t compare to the original.
By
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
of TheMovieChicks.com (7/0)
It's stupid and silly, but funnier than the original - exactly what you'd expect from a summer bl...
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Scott Nash
of Three Movie Buffs (7/0)
The acting is good, the direction is good, the special effects are great, only the jokes are a li...
By
Audrey Rock-Richardson
of Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah) (7/0)
Sonnenfeld gives us little more than a massive slimy serving of aliens on a sloppy summer platter...
By
Maitland McDonagh
of TV Guide's Movie Guide (7/0)
You've seen it before.
By
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
of UK Critic (7/0)
It's kinda colourful and bouncy, and it features a lot of cool-looking aliens, but rather than ex...
By
Urban Cinefile Critics
of Urban Cinefile (7/0)
Like a comic book on speed, it’s easy to be seduced by the exuberant energy and frivolous folly… ...
By
Mike Clark
of USA Today (7/0)
Large budget notwithstanding, the movie is such a blip on the year's radar screen that it's tempt...
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Matthew Turner
of ViewLondon (7/0)
If you liked the first film, then you’ll like the sequel, but it’s neither as exciting nor as out...
By
J. Hoberman
of Village Voice (7/0)
Good-naturedly cornball sequel.
By
Jeffrey Chen
of Window to the Movies (7/0)
I've heard that the fans of the first Men in Black have come away hating the second one. I wonder...
By
Susan Granger
of www.susangranger.com (7/0)
This short, sardonic slapstick diversion simply recycles what succeeded before. Frankly, I expect...
By
Michael Szymanski
of Zap2it.com (7/0)
This sequel to "Men in Black"
By
Steven Snyder
of Zertinet Movies (7/0)
Men In Black 2 recaptures the fun of a world overrun by aliens but then fails at being memorable,...
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Phil Villarreal
of Arizona Daily Star (3/4) No reference
Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones seem to be simply punching their time cards this time around.
By
Emily Blunt
of Blunt Review (3/4) No reference
MIB2 is a hilarious cosmic experience of meteoric proportions!
By
Wade Major
of Boxoffice Magazine (3/4) No reference
Though there is much to like, there's very little to love in a movie that was clearly orchestrate...
By
Pablo Villaca
of Cinema em Cena (3/4) No reference
Suas piadas são óbvias, seu roteiro é pouco inspirado e a direção de Barry Sonnenfeld é auto-indu...
By
Luis Martinez
of Cinenganos (3/4) No reference
Es sólo ciencia ficción; ver seres de otros mundos comportarse como humanos, con las mismas pasio...
By
Dan Fazio
of Citysearch (3/4) No reference
The filmmakers trot out all the same gimmicks, but they lose their charm when you know what's com...
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Garth Franklin
of Dark Horizons (3/4) No reference
The one thing this movie has going for it is chemistry and both Smith and Jones work extremely we...
By
Robert Denerstein
of Denver Rocky Mountain News (3/4) No reference
A mixed bag of a comedy that can't really be described as out of this world.
By
MaryAnn Johanson
of Flick Filosopher (3/4) No reference
You can go far on the undeniable charms of Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith, but not that far.
By
Donald Munro
of Fresno Bee (3/4) No reference
There's a polite, distant, strained sensibility to this inevitable sequel.
By
Bruce Kirkland
of Jam! Movies (3/4) No reference
Just entertaining enough not to hate, too mediocre to love.
By
Louis B. Hobson
of Jam! Movies (3/4) No reference
There is undeniable fun watching the antics unfold but there's nothing hysterical enough to warra...
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Robert W. Butler
of Kansas City Star (3/4) No reference
Most of the things that made the original Men in Black such a pleasure are still there.
By
Danny Minton
of KBTV-NBC (Beaumont, TX) (3/4) No reference
a galactic waste of time
By
John Larsen
of Light Views (6/1) No reference
None of the actors have the support of director Sonnenfeld, who leaves them struggling to stay af...
By
Jeffrey Overstreet
of Looking Closer (3/4) No reference
Sadly, the movie has no new ideas worth mentioning.
By
Glenn Whipp
of Los Angeles Daily News (3/4) No reference
This might just be the slightest $100-million-plus-budgeted movie in history.
By
Kenneth Turan
of Los Angeles Times (3/4) No reference
A good-faith attempt has been made to duplicate the original elements, but the mix is wrong, bear...
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Nick Schager
of Matinee Magazine (3/4) No reference
Packed to the gills with stale gags and humdrum computer-enhanced action sequences.
By
Michael Elliott
of Movie Parables (3/4) No reference
What was fresh and original in the first film feels tired, stale, and unfunny here.
By
Shawn Levy
of Oregonian (3/4) No reference
Devoid of momentum, magnetism and anything remotely resembling substance.
By
Jay Boyar
of Orlando Sentinel (3/4) No reference
Although the sequel has all the outward elements of the original, the first film's lovely flakine...
By
Steve Schneider
of Orlando Weekly (3/4) No reference
Whether verbal or visual, most of the few decent gags the sequel contains were already told twice...
By
Gary Thompson
of Philadelphia Daily News (3/4) No reference
MiB2 shows sequel smarts in the most crucial area -- running time. Bloated length has destroyed m...
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Joe Baltake
of Sacramento Bee (3/4) No reference
MIB II is a movie that makes it possible for the viewer to doze off for a few minutes or make sev...
By
David Elliott
of San Diego Union-Tribune (3/4) No reference
Eye-filling but curiously joyless entertainment.
By
Joe Leydon
of San Francisco Examiner (3/4) No reference
If you loved Men in Black, chances are extremely good that you'll like Men in Black II a lot.
By
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
of sbs.is (3/4) No reference
The good (Tommy Lee Jones), the bad (Johnny Knoxville) and the ugly (CGI effects)
By
Moira MacDonald
of Seattle Times (3/4) No reference
Men in Black II, with its agreeably slipshod feel, is even slighter than the 1997 original, but a...
By
Todd Anthony
of South Florida Sun-Sentinel (3/4) No reference
The humor isn't as sharp, the effects not as innovative, nor the story as imaginative as in the o...
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
of St. Paul Pioneer Press (3/4) No reference
Men in Black II is an efficient entertainment, but it's far from inspired.
By
Josh Larsen
of Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (3/4) No reference
When a movie's strongest quality is a fantastic, original concept, a sequel can be something of a...
By
Paul Salfen
of Supercala.com (3/4) No reference
...like most sequels, just isn't as good as the original.
By
Dustin Putman
of TheMovieBoy.com (3/4) No reference
The mercifully short running time is either a result of thin material or an attempt to be over be...
By
Tony Medley
of tonymedley.com (3/4) No reference
This film is so full of special effects that it seems as if there are only about seven minutes of...
By
Peter Howell
of Toronto Star (3/4) No reference
The predictable effort makes the movie seem longer than its audience-friendly 88 minutes, and the...
Reviews of Men in Black II
By
Jonathan R. Perry
of Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) (3/4) No reference
'The once-dynamic duo of Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith phones it in - and a by-the-numbers scrip...
By
Cory Cheney
of Urban Tulsa Weekly (3/4) No reference
'You’ll laugh for not quite and hour and a half, but come out feeling strangely unsatisfied. You’...
By
Ann Hornaday
of Washington Post (3/4) No reference
They're going through the motions, but the zip is gone.
By
Desson Thomson
of Washington Post (3/4) No reference
If the first Men in Black was money, the second is small change. But it still jingles in the pock...
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