Men in Black II
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Barry Sonnenfeld |
| Produced by |
Walter F. Parkes Laurie MacDonald |
| Screenplay by |
Robert Gordon Barry Fanaro |
| Story by | Robert Gordon |
| Based on |
The Men in Black by Lowell Cunningham |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Danny Elfman |
| Cinematography | Greg Gardiner |
| Edited by |
Richard Pearson Steven Weisberg |
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Amblin Entertainment
Parkes/MacDonald Productions |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Release date
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Running time
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89 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $140 million |
| Box office | $441.8 million |
Men in Black II (MIIB) is a 2002 American science fiction action comedy film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. The film also stars Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville, Rosario Dawson, Tony Shalhoub and Rip Torn. The film is a sequel to the 1997 film Men in Black and was followed by Men in Black 3, released in 2012. This series of films is based on the Malibu / Marvel comic book series The Men in Black by Lowell Cunningham. A video game partly based on the film was released in 2002 titled Men in Black II: Alien Escape.
Five years after the retirement of Agent K (Jones) from MIB, the secret New York City-based agency that monitors and regulates extraterrestrials residing on Earth, Agent J (Smith)—K's former partner and hand-picked replacement—is called to investigate the murder of an alien at his pizzeria. The waitress, Laura Vasquez (Rosario Dawson), tells him that the murderers were Serleena (Lara Flynn Boyle), a shapeshifting Kylothian who has taken the form of a lingerie model, and her two-headed servant Scrad (Johnny Knoxville). Laura says they were looking for something called the Light of Zartha. J is strongly attracted to Laura, and in violation of MIB rules, does not neuralyze her to erase her memories of the aliens—and of him.
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