Well, it's a big improvement over the last

Rating: 6/10 (23 December 2015)

I saw the first MEN IN BLACK in cinemas in 1997 and thought it was okay for what it was (a light, CGI comic book-style adventure). I recently watched the sequel and thought it was pitiful, a tired retread full of awful special effects. Thankfully this third film breathes new life into the series by adding a nice time travel plot and shaking things up a bit.
Will Smith is less annoying than usual in his starring role here and the film works pretty well with him as the lead. The culture shock stuff of him arriving in the 1960s is what makes the movie fun, and Josh Brolin does a nice impersonation of the stiff Tommy Lee Jones. There are still some dodgy CGI effects in here, particularly the whole of the climax which seems to have been green-screened, but they're nowhere near as poor as in the last film.
Once again I didn't care for the villain of choice, Boris the Animal, played by an overacting Jemaine Clement. For some reason these films always have the make the villain either gross or sort-of funny, or both; it doesn't work. Boris is better than the Lara Flynn Boyle monstrosity, but not by much. However, we do get a large supporting turn from the excellent Michael Stuhlbarg, who's the best thing in the film and who automatically lifts the enjoyment level a bit by his presence alone.