Light, fun, enjoyable

Rating: 6/10 (2 July 2002)

After reading about MIB2, I was expecting it to be really lame (let's face it, most sequels are), but I was pleasantly surprised by this. No, it's not as good as the first one. Partly, that's because there's no real surprise--we already know
everything and so do the characters. There is some attempt to recapture the fun intro of the first movie by having J return to the agency, but that fails in
comparison to K's enlistment last time. What MIB2 amounts to is really just a new assignment for our MIB guys. And sadly, Linda Fiorentino is absent from
the cast. We do get the worm guys and the talking dog again, though (even if
he's a bit over-used). Overall, MIB2 is done well enough to be fun and enjoyable without feeling like a second-rate rehash.