Not worth the time or admission price (minor spoilers)

Rating: 3/10 (13 July 2002)

When riding on the coattails of its predecessor, a sequel should at least attempt' to out-do the first story. Whether or not it succeeds in this endeavor usually remains to be seen. Men In Black II fails and no effort at this attempt seems obvious.
If you recall the first Men In Black, it gave us something we really hadn't seen before a sci-fi action flick, with a comedic twist. The story set itself up nicely upon opening, and the plot had direction and a place to go. The film was full of fresh ideas, filled with new and exciting concepts into the whole alien-conspiracy' theories. The effects were clearly thought out and worked very well but I digress, as this is a review of the sequel.
and a much anticipated sequel from the original fan-base. However, as anticipated and as over-promoted as MIB2 was, it should incite something the audience yearns to go see, something equally fresh as the original gave us. Unfortunately, it does not, and it fails in almost every aspect.
It's a mild distraction at best and most of what we see in MIB2, is not fresh and new, in fact merely a re-hash of what made us laugh, and awe over in the first one. We re-visit Jeebs, the pawnshop owner with the floating eye (and you can BET you know what happens to him  almost like you expect it to happen) to Frank the Pug (the talking dog) who spouts of one-liners in an attempt at dog-humour. We even run into the worm-aliens (you remember, from the coffee-room in the original movie) who seem only to be present for the mere re-hash effect. They lend very little to the plot.
What little we do see that is new, really isn't all that exciting, nor does it lend itself well to the story. The trailers for MIB2 depict a scene with a huge worm eating the subway train. This is probably the most thrilling and most involved sequence in the movie, and since you've already seen it in the trailer, the scene won't surprise you when it appears in the theatre.
As for the acting, it might be hard to tell but it would seem that Will Smith and Tommy-Lee Jones do their best to carry their characters over from the first movie into this sequel. And for what little substance there is to this plot, they seem to give what they can to their characters, almost in an effort to make up for a bad story. Lara Flynn Boyle, the antagonist, is neither as threatening nor convincing a villain as Vincent D'Onofrio was in the first movie. And Johnny Knoxville well I can't figure how he got into the movie, except maybe that he can just about handle the role of a bumbling villain side-kick.
The one thing I did admire, however, was the subway locker. The scene didn't last long, but it was perhaps the most original element of the entire movie, that didn't lend itself to being recycled from the first.
Otherwise, I was quite disappointed from this effort. I really don't recommend seeing it. This movie is only 88 minutes long, so if you still feel you can bring yourself to part with 9 bucks to go see it, at least not much of your time will be wasted.