Men In Black 2 : le meilleur de la saga ? 👽

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00:00Five years have passed after the events of the first film.

00:03I continue my activities within the Men in Black,

00:05but feels a certain loneliness which will prevent him from neutralizing a witness

00:08who saw his boss get killed by Serlina,

00:10an alien who takes on the appearance of one of the actresses from Twin Peaks.

00:13She is looking for the light of Zarta,

00:15and she must not get her hands on it or she will have the power to destroy the Earth.

00:19The problem is that only one agent knows where the light is.

00:22K.

00:22Kevin.

00:24Oh, Kevin, that's funny because you don't have a...

00:28From Kevin.

00:30The problem is that he was neuralyzed five years earlier.

00:32and he lives happily in a suburban post office.

00:35So I decide to bring him back and try to make him regain his memory.

00:38The survival of humanity depends on it.

00:39Filming of the film began in June 2001,

00:42and the climax was to take place at the World Trade Center.

00:44But after 9/11, the whole ending was rethought and relocated to the Statue of Liberty.

00:49And all the other scenes that showed the Twin Towers were either deleted or changed.

00:53Men in Black 2 was released in the summer of 2002 and the reviews were more or less lukewarm.

00:57The film is criticized for its lack of originality, since it follows the same plot as the first opus.

01:02With an experienced agent who will train another,

01:04to save Earth from a big slimy monster who wants to steal an ultra-powerful stellar artifact.

01:09Our heroes will encounter lots of aliens along the way,

01:12team up with a woman and end up taking out the bad guy with a big gun.

01:15Indeed, they didn't look very far,

01:17and some things could have been better developed.

01:19But there are still things worth a visit.

01:21If only the development of the two main characters.

01:24First of all, I suffer from the loneliness of my job,

01:26the film highlights it during the first ten minutes,

01:29until the love interest shows up and it all gets pretty cliché, it's true.

01:32But still!

01:33To end this brief love story as the film dares to do during its climax,

01:37it offers a sweet ending for the character,

01:39and it's original for this kind of production.

01:41Well, even if he seems like he doesn't care five minutes later, but still!

01:44As for the case, many at the time found it lazy.

01:53to take the initiation rite from the first film and just reverse the roles.

01:57But personally, I find it quite funny to see Tommy Lee Jones in this guy's shoes.

02:00who doesn't really know what he's doing there, who commands everything he sees with such nonchalance.

02:03This gives the actor's performance a certain subtlety and an offbeat side that the film embraces wonderfully.

02:08That's very kind of you.

02:11You're welcome.

02:12Well, after that I admit that I'm not very objective, because it's with this film that I discovered the world of Men in Black.

02:17As I discovered Die Hard with the third opus,

02:20Jurassic Park with the third opus,

02:22SOS Phantom with the second opus,

02:25and Rocky with the third opus.

02:26No, and I have a problem with the order of the sagas.

02:28But then, Danny Heffman's brilliant music,

02:30the titanic work of Rick Baker,

02:32I discovered all of this with this film.

02:34There's even Michael Jackson as an MIB agent.

02:36I find it even crazier than the first one.

02:42Johnny Knoxville's double header,

02:44the introduction of Serlina who eats her attacker with this belly,

02:47the testiguel,

02:48the giant toilet bowl that lands you in Times Square,

02:51Z playing Matrix,

02:52Frank who makes dirty jokes like your uncle at Christmas,

02:55the station's case with this alien race who have porn parties,

02:58No, sorry, I love this movie.

03:10I think it's full of ideas, and above all it's very funny.

03:13By the way, to come back to the locker scene,

03:15in the alternate ending,

03:16I get into a spaceship,

03:18thinking of joining his girlfriend on his planet,

03:20before finally landing in that famous locker with the evil aliens.

03:23It was deemed too much,

03:24and finally we got this ending

03:26where Earth is just a locker in an alien train station,

03:28which highlights this rather brilliant mise en abyme

03:30which takes up the principle of the end of the first film,

03:32with this tracking shot which shows us that the universe is only a marble

03:35that the aliens play with.

03:37In short, all this to say that Men in Black 2 deserves to be rehabilitated.

03:40Although despite the mixed reviews at the time,

03:42The film was a success, grossing $450 million worldwide.

03:45However, it took 11 years for a sequel to see the light of day.

03:48A sequel that the studios, Will Smith and the director will polish,

03:52so as not to simply return for commercial reasons.

03:54The 3rd will therefore completely renew its plot,

03:56and will interfere in this risky concept that is time travel.

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