Retro Movie Review:MEN IN BLACK II

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MEN IN BLACK II begins a new ongoing series of movie reviews that I am calling Retro Movie Reviews.

 Originally released in the summer of 2002, MEN IN BLACK II reunties  Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as Agents K and J, know as the Men In Black. It was the chemistry between Jones and Smith that made the original film a box office blockbuster and this second entry went on to make over $190 million at the domestic (U.S.) box office and spawned a third and better sequel. But I'm here to talk about MIB 2.
   Trouble starts all over again when Serleena (played well by Laura Flynn Boyle), an alien (of course) from another planet (of course) shows up looking for the "light of Zartha". No one seems to know where it's location is, except for one person and he can't remember where it is or who he is for that matter. I'm talking about Tommy Lee Jones as Agent K, whom, if you remember, got neuralized (that mean his memory erased) in the first movie. It's up to Agent J(Smith) to help him get his memory back and find the "light of Zartha" before the evil Serleena does and destroy the Earth as we know it. But of course. Right?
  Once again, this is a fast paced comedic thrill ride, chalk full of alien monsters who are hiding out here on Planet Earth. Michael Jackson was one of them. Go figure. The plot is silly nonsense, but it serves one thing and one thing only-to reunite and reignite the chemistry between Smith and Jones.
And this second entry does just that. Nothing more.
  It's a zippy 90 minute thrill ride full of laughs and other nonsense.
  I give MIB 2 a B and recommend the first or third movies if you like this one.
Check out more retro movie reviews coming soon, of course.

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