#Screenit men in black movie

While that's obviously not going to happen, they do say that time heals all wounds, so only time will tell if audiences give the franchise another chance with the imaginatively titled 'Men in Black 3.'

In fact, the running joke was that people wished the films' signature tech tool - a 'neuralyzer' that erases one's memory of what's just been seen with a flash of light from the device - could have been used on them to make them forget the sequel in favor of only remembering the original.Īnother solution would be to build a time machine and go back to sometime before 2002 and either swap out the sequel's script with a better one or simply somehow prevent director Barry Sonnenfeld and company from entertaining the notion of making installment #2. Yet, while 'Men in Black 2' also made good money (more than $800 million globally in today's dollars), it was a disappointing follow-up to critics and moviegoers alike. It was a fun, witty and creative take on the old alien invasion flicks of the 1950s, featured a great old couple pairing between Smith and co-star Tommy Lee Jones, and an entertaining mix of humor, special effects, and gross-out material.Īfter a 5-year hiatus, the inevitable sequel finally arrived. Rather than stretch himself too much dramatically, however, he opted to star in yet another sci-fi flick about alien invaders.īut this time it was a comedy and 'Men in Black' further cemented Smith's Hollywood A-list status with glowing critical reviews and a worldwide box office take of nearly $600 million (or more than $1 billion in today's dollars).

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OUR TAKE: 5.5 out of 10 Back in 1997, with Will Smith having successfully transitioned from TV's 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' to bona fide movie star with the success of 'Independence Day,' the sky seemed the limit for the young actor. With the occasional help of another alien, Griffin (MICHAEL STUHLBARG), who can see all possible futures simultaneously, J unwillingly gets partnered with young K and they set out to find and stop Boris before history is once again changed. Realizing that means a protective and alien repelling energy field around Earth was never deployed and that a Boglodite invasion is now imminent, J travels back to 1969 to stop Boris from killing K, all too aware that he must avoid his partner's younger self (JOSH BROLIN). He apparently succeeds, as K disappears and any history about him is rewritten, leaving only J remembering that he formerly lived through the present. Having been sent there decades earlier by K who also took Boris' arm, the alien is determined to change all of that by going back into time and killing K before the arrest. J gets the chance to see exactly what that was when Boris the Animal (JEMAINE CLEMENT), an extraterrestrial assassin, escapes from his lunar prison. Accordingly, all he knows is that something in the past changed K into the dour, hardened man that he is today. When he tries to find answers from K or their agency boss, Agent O (EMMA THOMPSON), all he gets is that he shouldn't ask questions that have answers he wouldn't want to hear. PLOT: Despite being paired together for more than a decade as partners working for a secret agency designed to hide the fact that extraterrestrials exist on Earth and keep the peace between them and their human counterparts, Agent J (WILL SMITH) knows next to nothing about Agent K (TOMMY LEE JONES). QUICK TAKE: Sci-Fi: A secret agent travels back in time to prevent an extraterrestrial from killing his partner back then and thus altering the course of history.

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