| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C+ |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Steve Murray |
"...a parade of stale jokes..." more... |
C- |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"The special effects are good, but often pointless." more... |
C- |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
"...we're a long way from the 1997 days when gags about alien invasions seemed so new, funny and irreverent." more... |
C+ |
Cincinnati Enquirer
Margaret A. McGurk |
"What's missing is the giddy sense of discovery that made the first movie so endearing." more... |
C+ |
| E! Online |
"...suffers from a serious case of flash over substance." more... |
B- |
filmcritic.com
Christopher Null |
"...one of the most uninspired sequels in recent memory..." more... |
B- |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"...what was hip and original in the first movie is now familiar and less hip in the sequel." more... |
B- |
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan |
"...a disappointment." more... |
C- |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"...a briskly paced crowd-pleaser..." more... |
B- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"Men in Black II would be a thoroughly entertaining affair if it wasn't for one thing: the plot." more... |
B- |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"...more mechanical than inspired." more... |
B- |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"...in every way an improvement over the original Men in Black from 1997." more... |
B+ |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"There's not a spark of new inspiration in it, just more of the same, done with noticeably less energy and imagination." more... |
D |
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez |
"...soulless..." more... |
C- |
USA Today
Mike Clark |
"Missing is the artful balance between fantasy and human drollery that distinguished 1997's rollicking original..." more... |
B- |
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