Watched Men in Black 3 today on bluray. I got the 3D version, but couldn't be bothered with the glasses, and the regular version was quite alright as it is. Some scenes i recognize in retrospect were gratuitous fanservice for glasses-wearing audiences with spiny projectiles and whatnot flying straight at the camera and stuff; 3D movies at this stage of evolution is like sampling in pop music was back in the mid-80s; way overdone...
Oh, and some of the CGI was not very well done, but hey. Still beats bluescreen and stop-motion animation crap from said 80s so we should all be thankful.
Anyhow, it was a pretty tootin' alright action-comedy movie, except DAMN, Tommy Lee's looking old! Put Clint Eastwood next to him you'd have trouble working out who's older!
(Ok, maybe not...)
Plot was weak and didn't make much sense of course, it rarely does in these kind of movies (especially in flicks like the Men in Blacks, where you get to cheat however you like with the script by introducing nonsensical, crazy macguffins to save what sad excuse of a plot there is, heh.) Still, what it got was executed well. The actors are seasoned professionals and did a very good job. I was particularly entertained by Josh Brolin's younger version of K; there were some great mannerisms of Tommy Lee's in his performance and I think he did a rather outstanding job actually. He carried a great deal of the movie, and made it considerably...err, well sorry for saying this, but, 'younger and fresher'. *ahem*
As little sense as the plot makes, the humor was great, however. I had a bunch of good LOLs at various points, certain celebs being 'outed' as aliens (Lady Gaga, Mick Jagger etc) is always a barrel of laughs. At least for me.
The crazy aliens and gadgets are also good, although maybe they third incarnation's aliens don't beat the talking dog from the first movie I dunno. Heh. You can't keep topping yourself all the time though; it quickly gets ridiculous and the movie lands itself in shark-jumping territory so maybe it's for the best?
The badguy, played by whatsisname, was also well done. A suitably disgusting and dislikeable character that got enough screen time to give a nice menacing presence. Not as epic a badguy as in some other hollywood extravaganzas perhaps, but we can't win 'em all. At least it wasn't Mission Impossible 4, where you got to see the badguy in...I think it was all of eighteen seconds, sum total?
If the badguy had a flaw maybe it was all the weird morphing shit going on with his face. MiB aliens have always been pretty fricken weird, but this was maybe over the top. Oh well. Maybe I'm overanalyzing.
This is a pretty solid, watchable popcorn-type movie. Not an all-time classic, but good entertainment for while it lasts, and there's a bunch of hilarious scenes thrown in for good measure. I'd give this one a 7-ish on my 0-10 scale, where 5 represents an overall average experience (rather than a crap one as is usually the case).
