People who are trite are good as gold

Rating: 3/10 (6 July 2002)

Hollywood seems devoid of anything new and Men in Black II is basic Hollywood 101 for making a cash cow "moo" again.
Men in Black One was delightfully different and the payoff at the box office and other perks was almost 600 million. Now we have the sequel. The only thing I liked in the whole thing was the dog. The attempt at some sort of plot and character based interaction is woefully weak. There is plenty of the "let's make a commercial and call it a movie" mentality in this one.

Tommy Lee Jones looks like he is ninety (maybe he is) and
Will Smith must have done it for the cash only because he is better, no way better than this as an actor.
Lara Flynn Boyle is easy to look at and that seems to be a requirement in summer movies these days. I think she has some promise as an actor and maybe in the difficult roles of a villain but this wasn't a proper exposure,pardon the pun, of her talents.
Rip Torn is the same as the first film.
Michael Jackson in a cameo role caused me to stir in my seat with a bit of expectation but it meant nothing in the grand scheme of the movie and maybe that is too bad for it might have been unique?
So what do we have here? Hollywood going for the cash and we fools running to give it to them. As long as re-hashed, re-worked, and re-done left overs make money that will continue to be the bill of fare.
Go during the matinee so you won't be the only person on the planet who hasn't seen Men in Black II but don't say I didn't warn you!
The dog was good.
The rest, well, it was "good as gold!"