94 minutes of good fun

Rating: Null/10 (4 July 2002)

Those who didn't like this movie must have been expecting to see "Schindler's List" or something similar. It's just good clean fun, fully as entertaining as the first movie with, if anything a tighter plot and more character development. The gags work just fine and the film is a wonderful excuse to spend 94 minutes in an air conditioned theater while escaping the global warming one of the film's characters has apparently caused. I think perhaps the main appeal of "Men in Black", as well as the film to which it is most comparable, "Ghostbusters", is that after years of watching the human race appear helpless before various mysterious forces, (as seen in the Mel Gibson movie that is previewed before MIBII starts), it's fun to see some guys with some answers and some attitude on our side. The human race ain't exactly chopped liver, you know!!!