I’ll be writing about this in more detail in “But I Digress,” but having seen “Men in Black II,” I have to say that the best thing about the outing was the cockamamie little cartoon that ran in front of it.
MIB2 had TL Jones, Will Smith, Rip Torn, Lara Flynn Boyle in lingerie, and lots of incredible effects (including Lara Flynn Boyle in lingerie). What it did not have is emotional heart. And that’s an incredibly amazing achievement, considering that the opportunities were right there and completely blown by the filmmakers. The changed dynamic of J knowing the ropes and K learning his way just sat there. They did nothing with it. A remarkable opportunity of pulling K out of his new life was utterly wasted when it was established that he had a dead end postal job and his wife had left him several years previously. Imagine a film where J has to pull K out of his Happily Ever After. That if they’d built into the premise the notion that one K was de-neuralized, he could never go back.
You see this film and you’re so distracted by what it *could* have been that what *is* there simply isn’t all that appealing.
PAD
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Word. And what the hëll was the deal with the deus ex machina ending?!
Sorry I’m so late posting on this, but I just discovered this Website. PAD may remember me from way back in the GEnie days.
Anyway, dittos to all the comments on this film, plus one more: why didn’t they think of the very obvious way to undo the effects of the neuralizer and which would’ve been much more hilarious than all that silly “de-neuralizer” stuff? Especially since J would’ve thought of it off-handedly, after all the experts at MiB and even the aliens who invented the thing gave up and said that there was absolutely no way to undo it. J would say, “Well, have you guys tried this?” then whips out his own neuralizer, puts on his shades, and flashes K with it, and tells him something to the effect of, “Forget that you forgot.” 🙂
I think those movies are quite stupid… It’s just my opinion :))
Sandra