"They forced me to do it!"

Rating: 6/10 (5 September 2002)

The first one was clever, engaging, inventive and most of all funny. This had a great responsability of keeping the reputation of the blockbusting first movie, and many years passed until they found out a good script to do it. The result is something which verges on deception. You love it and hate it in equal amounts: although the running time helps to create the illusion that you actually want more, what happens here is the usual Hollywood sequel with its usual and more regular flaw: the feeling that we are seeing something rushed to happen. But my greatest challenge as a viewer was getting over the dull comic timings, which sometimes had everyone in the theater completely quiet. So you see, this is not the fascinating fest that was the first movie, but anyway there are some funny things about the MIB gadgetry and you will laugh with that dog and many other moments in the movie. But of course, the flaws are there, and that subliminal love story is unconvincing, and a near-flop. But I guess that's what happens with some sequels...