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If you said yes to 4 then you are a hopelessly gullible individual.
If you answered yes to 5 then can you get him to return my
mobile phone?
Actually, if you agreed with questions 1-3 then Men In
Black will be the perfect movie for you to spend a night
watching (while your back is firmly planted against the wall).
It is a wonderfully wicked look at aliens on Earth and how
governments have been covering up the fact that for decades
the creatures have been quietly getting on with their own
lives within all our communities.
Keeping tabs on the legal aliens is the top-top-ultra-mega-hardcore-secret
organisation known as Men In Black, which has highly trained
agents and a wondrous array of nifty weapons to keep the galactic
interlopers in line.
Perhaps its two most important weapons are the red-light
memory wiper and the latest thing in tracking down aliens
- the supermarket tabloid newspapers, which give the MIB team
excellent leads with headlines like "An alien ate my baby".
Rip Torn is the dour head MIB, but its senior agent is Kay,
played in a sensationally straight-faced way by Tommy Lee
Jones. After his partner is retired (and red-lighted) he has
to choose another colleague and his pick is unorthodox policeman
Will Smith, who becomes Jay.
The verbal by-play between the two is nicely balanced and
the newbie-versus-oldie patter sparks a lot of the movie's
humour.
The action heats up when nasty aliens, the Bugs, set down
on Earth to steal a treasured Galaxy and rule the universe.
Vince d'Onofrio plays the Bug-possessed Edgar, a pest eradicator,
and bumbles his away around screen dealing out very nasty
death to those who get in his way.
A point worth noting with the DVD is that a lot of graphic
parts have been reincorporated into the movie - having been
taken out of the movie and video release to gain a more general
rating. See our news piece.
Men In Black is a hugely amusing and enjoyable way
to relax. Witty, clever, finely scripted - it is well worth
having in your DVD collection.
Conclusion:
Movie: 90% DVD Extras: 90%
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