Best of the III

Rating: 10/10 (6 September 2012)

This film is a major increase in quality over the first two, not that I did not think those were also great. There is a continuity to them all, that is capped off here.
A Kinky Woman (Nicole Scherzinger) visits a guy named "Boris the Animal" ("Flight of the Conchords" Jemaine Clement), using the typical "file-in-the- cake" routine, which unfortunately works and he gets loose, blowing a hole in the ceiling of the joint, revealing the Prison as being on the Moon.
This guy is just a Menace, and he's got a little animal living in his hand that can shoot out high-velocity darts. He is actually an advanced guard for a race called "The Boglodites" who have to go from Solar System to Solar system, eating them on the way. Next target: EARTH.
But Kay (Tommy Lee Jones/Josh Brolin) had arrested this Creepoid back in 1969, and set up a defense grid called "The Arc-Net."
Boris gets down to Earth, and immediately resumes his 1969 Killing Spree.
At MIB Headquarters, which looks almost exactly the same as it has in the first 2 films, Agent Zed (Rip Torn) has died, even though Rip Torn himself plays a different alien guy at "Zed's" funeral. The Image of "Zed" is Kirk Larsen, not Rip Torn. And there is a new "Head" Agent, Agent "O" played by Emma Thompson/Alice Eve.
J wants to help out K as usual, but K just does not want J involved... And while waiting in his apartment, K vanishes, and his apartment changes... And J suddenly has a headache and wants Chocolate Milk. This is because Boris has found Jeffery Price, and jumped back in time to 1969, killing K.
The Next Day, J gets to work, and nobody else remembers K. He has a "new" partner, Agent "AA" (Will Arnet, who I just can't seem to place).
In fact, K's dead, killed by Boris in 1969... And the ArcNet was never deployed. And so the Boglodyte's invade, and J has to find the son of Obadiah Price, the only guy who had ever made Time Travel work, before MIB made it illegal: Jeffery Price (Michael Chernus). And so, to make a Time "Jump," J has to literally fall from a great height. So he goes back to the day before Boris had gone back.
This is where all the fun begins, and Josh Brolin plays the young K as well as Tommy Lee Jones plays the "Old, Busted Hotness."
There is just so much great stuff in this, with Andy Warhol, who is "Agent W" (Bill Hader) and a crazy guy named "Griffin" (Michael Stuhlbarg)-Who has the gift of the ArcNet Shield for K, he is from a race of guys who can see all kinds of ways Time will unfold. Ironically, some of the action in this film, happens at the same Park where the final scenes of the first MIB film happened.
What is great about this film, is that it is a full circle of Time's Arrow, that refers all the way back to things that happen in the first MIB film.
The only bad thing I can think of, is that we had to wait ten years for this film to come out, after the previous MIB film. But even with so much time passing, director Barry Sonnenfeld was able to re-produce the production design of the first two. And although Frank the Pug is not here, J has some paintings of Frank in his apartment. And no "Jeebs" either (Tony Shalhoub).
So Now the MIB story has played out its full cycle, they really did a good job with this one.