Tommy Lee Jones is melting. If they do a Men in Black 4, he will be but a puddle on the floor.

It's Men in Black, it's fun, it's better than the 2nd, that's all you need to know. I ordered an omelette, I got an omelette.

"Men in Black 3" offers up everything one would expect from another entry in the MiB series: a light-weight, jocular adventure regarding saving the Earth from alien invasion with plenty of nifty special effects and the solid chemistry of stars, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. This edition sees our heroes involved in a time travel odyssey that has Josh Brolin portraying, uncannily, the young Agent K. As expected, the experience is fun and entertaining, but nothing extraordinary.

Better than I expected and definitely better than Men in Black 2. Josh Brolin a tremendous Tommy Lee Jones job and great to see Michael Stuhlbarg here as well. And Barry Sonnenfeld HAS to be a Mets fan ... Shea Stadium returns! (Alas, no Bernard Gilkey, though we do get Cleon Jones). More enjoyable than it has any right to be.

I heard mixed things about this movie all last year. Some thought it was a pleasant surprise and others… didn’t. For the most part I’d say I fall in the former camp. This isn’t a summer classic or anything, but it manages to resurrect this mostly dead franchise a lot more easily than I expected. In fact, it might objectively be the best film of the trilogy (which isn’t really saying a whole lot). The basic adventure at the film’s center is a lot better than what we’ve seen before anyway and there were a handful of fairly witty moments throughout. This is the film that MIB2 should have been.

Waarom een 3 maken... Toch nog de moeite waard wel.

...not horrible. Would have been a solid 3* if a certain Fresh Prince would have sang the theme.

From my bedroom well-removed from "studio culture" right now (not to mention a year since seeing this), MIB3 represents as well as anything a nadir of film franchising. Diverting but without any real reason to exist when stacked beside the first, still-worth-it entry in the series. And honestly, I don't blame it on the "filmmakers" per se - whoever's idea it was to have Julian Schnabel among the celebrity aliens under investigation (see also: more wide audience-friendly known-aliens like Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber) deserves at least one of the millions and millions of dollars that went into this thing, as it does with every thing. Little else, though, and some embarrassing, if knowing riffs on Andy Warhol's credibility. Hate to get all Rosenbaum here, but that smarts in the part of me that strains to dispel all willful ignorance.

This is pretty trashy, as expected, but still really fun and Clement really brings the story to life with his performance.

See it for Brolin.

Sidenote: If you're seeing this movie for Brolin, wait for the DVD/Blu-Ray.

I was expecting a cheap cash-in, and instead was pleasantly surprised by how entertaining this film was. Struggling in the alien and humor department, it's the weakest of the franchise, but certainly welcomed. The ending made me appreciate the franchise so much more than I previously did, so it is a must-see if you've seen the previous two movies.