"Awright, check it."

Rating: 4/10 (8 December 2002)

The original "Men in Black" isn't one of my absolute favorite movies, but it's okay. The best things about it are the sci-fi jokes and the most inventive looking alien characters since we left the Mos Eisley Cantina. Well, "MIB 2" is one of those sequels that takes what worked in the first movie and goes with it. Unfortunately, that means we end up with exactly the same movie over again.
No, really; the EXACT same movie over again. Right down to the plot being about an evil alien (who, again, transforms into the first human form it lays eyes -or whatever- on) searching for a glowy thing that the universe depends on.
Is it worth watching? Well, kids will still like it, I guess. And people who were waiting on the edge of their seats for the next "Men in Black" movie (as opposed to, say, parts two and three of "the Matrix"). As for the rest of us, all we get is a scene with Michael Jackson and some penguins that I guess is supposed to be funny but ends up being profoundly terrifying.