we all learn and move on

Rating: 8/10 (4 June 2005)

Hmm... what to make of this... Well, I loved MIB - I even remember paying good money to watch it a second time around in a hotel room in Belgium. Reading some of the comments about this MIB2 on IMDb it seems a lot of people were bombarded with promotional material when this came out, but bizarrely ( I do live in the 21st century ) this completely passed me by and the first I knew about MIB2 was in the local supermarket on the remaindered shelves.
And there we have the difference - with my expectations set at zero I loved this film. Rosario Dawson looks a babe, Will is Will and plays with a post-post-modern self deprecating irony only as he can. It reminded me a bit of gremlins 2 whereby much of the humour is taking a wry look at the first film - not surprised to see they both have Spielberg on the production.
The film is thrown together - e.g. strange duplication of stock footage in seen setting outside the diner, and, is it just me, but there is something up with the sound clarity making it hard to follow, the CGI leaves me cold in jaded 2005, but whatever other reviewers say, the plot does hang together and has some nice touches. Maybe a film sank by the weight of expectation? If I was involved in its production I would have been a bit taken aback by the savagery of the criticism.