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Men In Black 3    
 

Stars: 3 Stars
Rated: PG-13
Studios:  Sony
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld 
                   Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones,

                       Josh Brolin and Emma Thompson   
Length: 106 Min. 

The boys are back and ready to avenge the disaster that was Men in Black 2. Can they perform the impossible and bring the the Men in Black movie franchise back from the brinks of film hell by giving the movie going public a film worth spending ten dollars of their hard earned moo-la for?  It has been ten years since the second Men in Black flopped horribly, though I personally liked the film, and most people me included had mixed feelings about Sony's upcoming venture. In truth, I thought it was going to be another Redbox special, but my crack addict like need to go to the movies overcame my sensibilities, and my wallet, and I dragged my daughter kicking and screaming to the movie theaters. What did I find there between the popcorn, M & M's and 3D glasses? Well I'm glad you asked.

MIB 3 survives! In the words of Doc Frankenstein..."Its Alive!" Sony has done what only the Indiana Jones franchise has managed to do and brought a trilogy of films back from a disastrous middle installment. I will say, however, it was not the performances of the usual suspects Smith and Jones that saved the Men in Black, but it is the new comer to the corp Josh Brolin who is the real hero of the film. Brolin plays the young Agent K who a very nasty alien from the future has gone back in time to kill. His performance is nothing short of genius and he manages to capture even the facial expressions and mannerisms of his co star Tommy Lee Jones. To say that Brolin impersonates Jones is not doing his work justice, because he does far more then just impersonate Jones he channels his very essence, and somehow manages to become the character of K making it his character every bit as much as Jones did the original version. I swear that quantum physics is involved in the making of this film somewhere and that Brolin is really a younger version of Jones from another dimension brought in to work his magic. I honestly have to say that I would put nothing past Sony and believe that my hunch could be right.

MIB 3 follows our two heroes K and J as they  go about their normal routine together. Life has become very routine for the two partners and J has finally decided to find out why K is so dour and sad. after an alien assassin from the past breaks out of a lunar prison to return to earth to kill K; J decides he is going to find out what happened to his partner in his past. After repeated attempts to find out are rebutted by the new head of MIB played by Emma Thompson, J decides to finally give it a rest. He goes home and wakes up to find that K was killed in 1969 and that the life he knew has changed. He alone remembers his partner and he has a strange craving for chocolate milk. Long story short, he goes back in time to rescue his partner and restore order to the world. This is not the whole story of course there is a twist; but, you will have to see the movie for yourself to discover what that is. 

Overall, this film is every bit as good a the first one even though the idea is no longer as fresh as it was back in the late 90's. Neither are mullets but they seem to have managed to hang around like a bad rash; and so two does the basic story telling that the MIB franchise continues to follow. Good guys go against bad guys, make us laugh, shoot up some stuff and then make us feel all warm and fuzzy inside at the end. Hey, it still works so why change the formula as Coke found out with their disaster in the 80's called new Coke. The 3D is just ok and the only scene that truly stands out in this format is the time travel sequence where Smith has to literally jump off a building to make the jump back in time; so don't waste the extra 3 bucks unless you really want to. You wont find anything new and exciting in MIB 3, other then Brolin as young K; but the whole family will be entertained and that is after all why we still go to the movies in the age of the home theater generation. (My dad still refuses to go to the movies because he spent so much money on his home theater system.) So get your black sunglasses and your neurolizer and take the whole family out to the nearest cineplex and see MIB 3 you wont be disappointed.

This film is rated PG-13 due to mild violence, some sexual innuendos, strong language and crude humor.