Thrill ride for the masses

Rating: Null/10 (1 July 1999)

Who cares about a plot?? The plot is the only thing that actually slows this joyride down a bit halfway through. MiB is laugh aloud funny, packed with whiz-bang one-liners, pokes at everyone from Elvis to Newt Gingrich, and much charm from the stars, Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. Smith is extremely enjoyable as the New Guy, employed to help save Earth from aliens, all in a day's work. His swaggering confidence and sass are an amusing contrast to Jone's delightfully deadpanned agent K.
The wise-cracking humor here is great, as evidenced in one of my favorite exchanges: Jones claims to be from the FBI and asks a woman to discuss her husband's transformation into an alien. The wife sullenly retorts, "Is this some kinda joke?" TO which Jones solemnly replies, "No, ma'am, we at the FBI do not have a sense of humor we are aware of."