**1/2 If you are a diehard Will Smith or Tommy Lee Jones fan, then you probably have already seen this.
If you are really bored and you want something to see and you've seen everything there is at the theater, except for this movie, eh, you could see this. Probably more worth your time though, is seeing something like The Bourne Identity again. Or in case you didn't really know was going on the first time, Star Wars: The Attack of the Clones. I've only seen it twice and I still really can't figure out what exactly went on.
Anyway, back to the movie at hand: MIBII. I thought this movie was pretty entertaining as long as you switch off any higher cognitive functions while watching it. I really wanted to see it because they were bringing back Tommy Lee Jones after retiring him. Plus, I sort of watched the cartoon series, so I thought it wouldn't be boring. Which, I guess, it's really not.
What I liked: I thought it was very funny. Lots of pretty humorous things packed into that 83 minutes. I thought Rosario Dawson was very pretty. Way prettier than she was in that Josie film. Tommy Lee Jones is extremely violent, but, in a good way. The worms were pretty amusing. I almost forgot Frank. The dog was hilarious. Almost made it worth my time.
What I did not like: maybe it's just me, but is it too much to ask for a movie to have, I don't know, continuity? Things were just not adding up. That's why I recommend if you see this movie just not to think about it like, at all. I will address these continuity points more below. First, more of what I did not like. Lara Flynn Boyle. Maybe it's just because I really can't stand her character in The Practice. Maybe it's because I really don't think she could pull it off as an underwear model, I don't know. I just did NOT like her, at all. Rosario Dawson, although very pretty, and extremely lovely, just wasn't making me feel empathy toward her character. Blah.
Suspension of disbelief. It is really hard to believe that this could happen in real-life because how can we not know that there are aliens living among us? The first movie it was easier to suspend my disbelief because it was done better. But, this movie, not so much.
Now, onto the continuity points. If you have not seen this movie, please do not read beyond this point because you will be spoiled for the ending and basically everything that happens until that point.
Lara Flynn Boyle (kinda forgot the character she plays) is after the light of Zartha. She really wants it, really, really badly. So you think that it was some type of really powerful device. Nope. It's just a person. That does not make sense. This person has a really interesting looking bracelet. And the bracelet is like a horrific nuclear-ish type bomb that could destroy the entire earth. Why? I have no idea. Truly, it does not make sense to me. Plus, in the beginning credits, Lara Flynn Boyle blows up all the planets in our solar system, and I thought maybe it will be brought up later in the movie, but, no. That's really all I have. Or, all I really want to say. There's more I could go into, but I just want to save those precious moments of my thinking capacity for something else.
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