Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 190
Fresh: 75 | Rotten: 115
Lacking the freshness of the first movie, MIB 2 recycles elements from its predecessor with mixed results.
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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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
Sep 6, 2002 Wide
Nov 26, 2002
$190.4M
Columbia Pictures
All Critics (192) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (80) | Rotten (117) | DVD (38)
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.
A mixed bag of a comedy that can't really be described as out of this world.
If the first Men in Black was money, the second is small change. But it still jingles in the pocket. It's fun lite.
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.
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.
They're going through the motions, but the zip is gone.
Not as good as the original.
A prime example of a terrible summer blockbuster that should have never been made.
...falls prey to the syndrome that affects many sequels: the apparently irresistible desire to replicate the formula from the first film.
About the most uninspired rehash of a popular hit I've ever seen.
A virtually identical remake of the 1997 blockbuster which offers almost nothing new.
The movie's smart, funny and fairly forgettable.
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.
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.
Sadly, the movie has no new ideas worth mentioning.
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.
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.
Men in Black II doesn't replicate the blithely funny and hip attitude of the original.
Like a lot of the movie, the special effects are 'been there, done that.'
With MIB2, [Sonnenfeld] triumphs yet again in giving us a quick -- albeit silly -- cinematic fix.
A textbook example of a redundant, middle-of-the-road summer sequel tailored to please the most easily entertained of moviegoers.
The best thing about Men in Black II is the talking dog.
The problem with the sequel is that Jones is missing from the action for too long.
...less a sequel and more a remake...
Not on the same planet as the original, no pun intended.
September 30, 2011Super Reviewer
As the first Men In Black film was enjoyable, this one is a pretty poor conceived sequel to a fairly good movie. The film is disappointing because it the potential to being something good, but it failed to capture the fun of the original film. I felt that this sequel was rushed, and lacked the creative elements that
August 24, 2011
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