belated sequel that could be better

Rating: Null/10 (27 May 2012)

Despite being partners for nearly fourteen years, veteran MIB Agents J and K still don't seem able to communicate. The true value of their partnership is put to the test when K mysteriously vanishes, apparently the victim of a complex time traveling scheme. To save not only his partner, but all of humanity as he once knew it, Agent J must travel back to 1969 to stop a sinister alien from rewriting history. A good setup and some genuinely clever ideas would have worked better without so much forced humor and phony special effects. Straight man Jones is still reliable, comic relief Smith (after a four-year absence) shows some rust, but there is a highlight in Brolin who perfectly embodies the younger, still deadpan version of Agent K. Acceptable, just not as much fun as it could be. **Â½