Short. Cheesy. Bad.

Rating: 2/10 (30 June 2002)

*MAY contain spoilers*
Summer is a great time. It's the time when you anticipate some of the most exciting and action-packed movies of the year. You wait for films to make you laugh, cry, and jump out of your seat with exhilaration. You wait for that one gem to rise up among all of the garbage that plagues our theatres each year.
Unfortunately, this 'aint it.
Seeing as how the first 20 minutes of the film are setup and "J" trying to get "K" back into MIB, that takes away just under 1/4 of the movie. The film clocks in at less than 90 minutes. Way too short by today's standards.
As in the first film, there was a lot of back-and-forth banter between Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, but being as though it reminds you too much of the first film, it grows tiresome very quickly. Will Smith gets a bunch of one-liners, which are amusing at times, but once again, become old fast.
I would like to have seen Rip Torn in more scenes; he is more fun to watch on screen than Smith and Jones combined, but because of the extremely short length of the film, there wasn't any chance of that happening.
We didn't see that many different or exciting aliens this time around. The huge worm (Jeff) in the subway system was more of a main character than "Z" was. Sure, we saw a bunch of friendly aliens (in the Post Office and the check-in station, etc) but the lack of exciting aliens to confront the MIB was disappointing.
There WERE a few funny parts; Will Smith is a naturally funny man when he's not trying too hard, and although this was probably his worst acting performance of his career, it didn't stand out because the rest of the acting was just as bad (if not worse).
Overall, MIB2 was a huge disappointment. They could have done so much more with it, but it seemed like they relied on the name "MIB" to carry the film. It unfortunately did not.
3/10