Not great, but not bad either.

Rating: 7/10 (11 July 2002)

The original MEN IN BLACK was classic. There is no doubt about it. But, here we are a few years later, and director Barry Sonnenfeld has decided to create a sequel which is loaded with special effects and humor that goes flat on just about every joke.
Tommy Lee Jones offers us little amounts of humor this time around and he almost seems like he was suffering from depression. Will Smith, however delivers a terrible one-liner just about every thirty seconds. Patrick Warburton is in the film for about five minutes, and Johnny Knoxville's character disappears about half-way through the film. And we are even told that his character survives. But for some odd reason, Sonnenfeld made him vanish. Lara Flynn Boyle is pretty hott as the alien disguising herself as an underwear model and the special effects were done pretty well also. In fact, they might have been worrying about the FX so much, that they forgot about developing the story. This could be part of the reason why we have a sequel that is way too low on the humorous moments. The action sequences are pretty good and they are mainly what saved the film. So, from me, MEN IN BLACK II gets 3/5.
NOTE: Another bad element that this film provides is a completely unfunny talking pug.