As good as "MIB!!" Even better!!!

Rating: 10/10 (18 July 2002)

1997- Director Barry Sonnenfeld and stars Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones teams up for the first time in the surprise hit "Men In Black" ("MIB") grossing over $250 million.
Now, it's 2002, after Will Smith's duds- like 1999's "Wild Wild West" (becoming the worst film of 1999 by the Razzie Awards), 2000's golf drama "The Legend Of Bagger Vance," directed by Robert Redford and co-starring Matt Damon and Charlize Theron, and 2001's "Ali," the true story of boxing legend Muhammad Ali, directed by Michael Mann ("Manhunter," "The Insider," "Heat," "The Last Of The Mohicans," etc.) and director Barry Sonnenfeld's "Wild Wild West" and this past spring's "Big Trouble" (pulled back from Sept. after the N.Y. attack, in which the plot involved two criminals carrying a bomb in a airplane), Sonnenfeld, Smith, and Jones team up again for "Men In Black II."
The movie is about Agent J (Smith), who, after K, keeps getting partners and neuralizes them. Now, a female alien named Serlena (Lara Flynn Boyle) and a 2-headed alien named Scrad/Charlie ("MTV Jackass's" Johnny Knoxville) are in Earth to find the light of Zorlon and destroy Earth. Agent Zed (Rip Torn) hires J to find Agent K (Jones) and de-neuralyze him. In order to fight the alien, they're gonna need some help. The worms (Mannix, Neeble, Gleeble, and Sleeble), Frank the pug, Jeebs (Tony Shaloub), and Laura (Rosario Dawson), who saw her pizza boss get murdered by Serlena.
So, what did I think about the movie? Well, it was very good. More enjoyable than the first one. Smith and Jones sure know how to have a good time. If you enjoyed the first "MIB," then check out "MIIB," or "MIB 2."

A+ 13/13 ****** (out of ****** stars)