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Men In Black 3

MEN IN BLACK 3 (Barry Sonnenfeld). 105 minutes. Opens Friday (May 25). For venues and times, see Movies. Rating: NN


Men In Black 3 arrives 10 years after the last one, and the jokes haven’t changed much: Will Smith’s Agent J is still getting himself knocked around by giant CG aliens and goggling at the wonders of the universe, and Tommy Lee Jones’s Agent K is still a taciturn buzz-kill.

Except that one day, Agent J wakes up to learn that Agent K isn’t anything at all, having been killed by a time-jumping alien (Jemaine Clement) decades earlier – which requires J to leap back to 1969 and restore their history (and save the Earth, of course) by rescuing the younger K.

The genius of MIB3 is that the younger K is played by Josh Brolin, who turns out to be the movie’s best gag, perfectly channelling the cranky pragmatism that makes Jones’s performance so much fun. But the script never gives him – or Smith – anything substantial to do, bouncing the pair from one effects scene to the next.

Propelled by Danny Elfman’s urgent score and Smith’s genial enthusiasm, the movie whizzes by in a blur of speedy activity and elaborate visual eye candy – and 3-D, don’t forget the 3-D – but it evaporates almost as soon as it reaches your retinas.

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