What Movie Was He Watching?

Rating: 4/10 (6 July 2002)

This film is an already tired variation on a theme that was only good the first time around. You'd think in the last five years they had to prepare this movie that they could get MIB 2 a decent script, wouldn't you? You would. You'd be wrong. I've been on a recent hot streak of movies, there hasn't been one I've disliked in quite some time, what with LOTR, The Rookie, Spider-Man, SW:E2, Blade 2, e.t.c. Well, thanks a lot, Sonnenfeld. Now I've got to start all over. I read an interview with Lara Flynn Boyle, who plays Serleena, saying how happy she was in the role because she could overact as much as she wants. Still waiting...Boyle is one of the worst screen villains I've seen since Ahnold in "Batman and Robin". Yes, THAT bad. While he overacts, she underacts. No emotion whatsoever from her. I've never seen her in anything else, but if that's what she calls overacting, well, then...you get the idea. Highlights? Well...Frank the pug was funny. And there's a segment at the very end of the movie that got the only real laugh out of me, plus a neat little twist similar to the one in the first movie. Aside from the random chuckle here and there (Jacko's cameo, Playstation controller, that kind of thing), nothing. Nothing at all. I just did not enjoy the movie at all. Ninety minutes of my life that I will never get back. I've spent six dollars on worse things, but I had such high hopes. Ah, well...plus, what was up with that videotape?!?! How did that guy know all about the MIB?!?!?!?! I'm sorry, excuse me...but when you see the movie, you'll understand. I gave this movie a 4, for Frank and the last 2 or 3 minutes of the film. It's not that Smith and Jones's chemistry was bad, it's just that I've seen it all before. Bottom line: If you're looking for something new, you won't get it. If you're looking for basically the same movie with the same effects and a less impressive story/cast, you got it.