"Back in black"

Rating: 5/10 (20 December 2011)

Agent J needs help so he is sent to find Agent K and restore his memory.
If you have read my review of the original, I did love it. It was a parody of parodies, with fast-moving humor and memorable scenes, cast, and characters. With a sequel, I admittedly had some sort of expectation. The sequel, for one, is directed by the same director of the first. By this, we can expect some of the same and of course how he wanted the sequel to be. Secondly, we have the same cast. Obviously, we can have the same formula with the humor and laughs just as the original. As I sat down to watch, I kept asking myself WHY did they chose to do this? WHY is this happening? And lastly, WHY did the director chose the battle the original? The only answer could be he lost it. The humor is kind of the same of the original: mildly vulgar, mildly presented. The problem with the sequel is that it tries to hard to make us feel like the first did. Of course, we have the same flaws as the first, but seems like the director wanted to double the amount and make ourselves *ASK* ourselves why? The acting was a little dumbed down, and surprisingly Tommy Lee Jones did a horrible job. Will Smith presented a better performance than him but maybe it was a bad day. Everything else is sort of like a throwback to the original, but sadly it's projected way worse. We have a few funny cameos, but none of them redeem the bad things. We have a few funny jokes, but most of them are forced. We have some cool scenes, but mostly they are all dumbed down. So let me put it this way: if you took the original, sort of took all the bad scenes, then sliced this one in half, and filled the sliced half with the bad scenes, you have Men in Black II. I didn't hate, but I didn't like it. I don't recommend, and the film deserves the 5 rating. Instead of watching this, take all the bad things out of the first, then re-watch that. It'll be a much better experience. 5/10.