Fifteen years ago, the first “Men in Black” movie introduced the characters of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones as special agents of an organization in charge of maintaining a “safe zone” for extraterrestrial-alien refugees disguised as Earthlings. A second movie, in 2002, punched the story along with new sci-fi comedy twists.
Now, 10 years later, we catch up again with still-wisecracking Agent J (Smith) and still-grumpy Agent K (Jones), and find they’re still keeping the intergalactic peace in and around their agency’s base of New York City, still zapping bystanders’ memories of close encounters with their mind-erasing “neuralizer” wands, still shaking down law-breaking E.T.’s, still trading zippy quips and burry barbs.
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