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Men in Black II (2002)

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Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 192
Fresh: 75 | Rotten: 117

Lacking the freshness of the first movie, MIB 2 recycles elements from its predecessor with mixed results.

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Average Rating: 5.5/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 20

Lacking the freshness of the first movie, MIB 2 recycles elements from its predecessor with mixed results.

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Movie Info

Otherworldly villains are on the loose again, and it's up to Earth's interstellar police force to bring them to justice in this sequel to the sci-fi comedy blockbuster Men in Black. Agent Jay (Will Smith) has become a high-ranking member of the Men in Black, the secret government task force designed to deal with unruly visitors from other worlds, while his former cohort, Agent Kay (Tommy Lee Jones), had his memory wiped clean and now lives a simple but contented life as a mailman. However, an

PG-13, 1 hr. 28 min.

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy

Robert Gordon, Barry Fanaro

Nov 26, 2002

$190.4M

Columbia Pictures

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Critic Reviews for Men in Black II

All Critics (194) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (80) | Rotten (119) | DVD (39)

The down-home satire of how we cope with cultural difference has evaporated, replaced by jazzy effects that wear out their welcome by the halfway mark.

April 18, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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A mixed bag of a comedy that can't really be described as out of this world.

August 9, 2002 Comment
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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If the first Men in Black was money, the second is small change. But it still jingles in the pocket. It's fun lite.

July 11, 2002 Comment
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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Men in Black 2 might be a retread of the first one, but I still say it's worth seeing. The stars are great in this.

July 10, 2002 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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The hang-loose grodiness of [the Men in Black films] has its charms, and the Ray-Banned team of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, at its best, is good vaudeville.

July 9, 2002 Full Review Source: New York Magazine | Comment
Peter Rainer
New York Magazine
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They're going through the motions, but the zip is gone.

July 3, 2002 Comment
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
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In the absence of the first film's rhythm, wit, and novelty, it's a typically lazy, diminishing-returns sequel.

May 24, 2012 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | Comment
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

"Men in Black II" never matched the first film's perfect blend of action, comedy, and sci-fi elements.

April 27, 2012 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
James Plath
Movie Metropolis

Crazy creatures, some scares, and loads of fun.

December 26, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Nell Minow
Common Sense Media

A prime example of a terrible summer blockbuster that should have never been made.

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

...falls prey to the syndrome that affects many sequels: the apparently irresistible desire to replicate the formula from the first film.

September 16, 2008 Full Review Source: ESplatter | Comment
Steve Biodrowski
ESplatter

About the most uninspired rehash of a popular hit I've ever seen.

March 11, 2008 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

A virtually identical remake of the 1997 blockbuster which offers almost nothing new.

December 27, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | Comment
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound

The movie's smart, funny and fairly forgettable.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment
Derek Adams
Time Out Source: Time Out

Men in Black II could care less whether you believe in it or not, or frankly, whether you bought the ticket and spent your time on the concession line trying to buy Goobers.

November 2, 2005 Full Review Source: Bangitout.com | Comment
Jordan Hiller
Bangitout.com

The acting is good, the direction is good, the special effects are great, only the jokes are a little flat and far between and nothing very original is offered up here.

September 30, 2005 Full Review Source: Three Movie Buffs | Comment
Scott Nash
Three Movie Buffs

Sadly, the movie has no new ideas worth mentioning.

January 15, 2005 Full Review Source: Looking Closer | Comment
Jeffrey Overstreet
Looking Closer

This film is so full of special effects that it seems as if there are only about seven minutes of actual story-telling from which to decipher a plot.

October 7, 2004 Full Review Source: tonymedley.com | Comment
Tony Medley
tonymedley.com Source: tonymedley.com

We watch and think, 'Yeah. So? What else can they do?' It's not that it's dull so much as that it's familiar.

July 24, 2004 Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | Comment
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

Men in Black II doesn't replicate the blithely funny and hip attitude of the original.

June 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) | Comment
Judith Egerton
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Source: Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

Like a lot of the movie, the special effects are 'been there, done that.'

May 9, 2004 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Terri Clark
Apollo Guide

With MIB2, [Sonnenfeld] triumphs yet again in giving us a quick -- albeit silly -- cinematic fix.

February 1, 2004 Full Review Source: FilmStew.com | Comment
Susan Michals
FilmStew.com Source: FilmStew.com

A textbook example of a redundant, middle-of-the-road summer sequel tailored to please the most easily entertained of moviegoers.

January 12, 2004 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

The best thing about Men in Black II is the talking dog.

January 7, 2004 Full Review Source: Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) | Comment
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
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A useless and unnecessary sequel that blatantly recycles elements from the first movie. The jokes and gags from the first one are repeated, except, it is not as funny this time around. The film's role reversal with Jay teaching an amnesiac Kay on the tropes of being an agent just feels unnatural. Lara Flynn Boyle is

July 23, 2011
Christopher Heim
Christopher Heim

Super Reviewer

It's pretty much the same, so much that it's near enough a clone of the original. And yet it isn't as funny the second time around. Men in Black II is heavier on action but has almost no laughs or charisma, and relies primarily on the formula of the first film and the chemistry between Smith and Jones and

May 26, 2012
Directors Cat
Directors Cat

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    1. Kay: Does that come standard?
    2. Jay: Actually it came with a black dude, but he kept getting pulled over.
    – Submitted by Rocky F (2 months ago)

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