MIB3

Review: 3.5/5

Well MIB3! Finally here!! Another opportunity for our good ol’ fresh prince Will smith to bag another $500mn at the Box office (seriously, he does this a lot! )

The movie is very easy to digest all in all at least for a sci-fi flick. The storyline is kept fairly simple just like the previous two movies. It sure wasn’t easy to fill shoes as big as MIB 1 and 2 but this one does a good enough job.

First off the bat, before you notice cool Willy and Tommy swag around, the quality of the 3D effects just grabs you by the throat ! Sheer technical brilliance. At least for me this was the best 3D flick I’ve seen since Avatar came along! In fact the makers of the Avengers could take a note or two from this one, who clearly forgot the magical madness that a good 3D job can do to a film (that movie nonetheless was epic, no questions ) There are a few moments in the movie when the characters just feel like their just one dimension short of popping into the theatre ( the alien fish scene.. phew!). They’ve done a pretty sweet job on the soundtrack as well with solid climax and slick moments being appropriately captured through out the film score. The original song Love is strange ,Baby o baby that Pitbull remixed up into a new club package, being played in K’s old ford puts you into the Dirty Dancing nostalgia for about 2 seconds :P ( The soundtrack to Dirty Dancing is legendary , got some really beautifully smooth romantic music)

The story is quite simple. Agent j(Smith) has to go out into the past to whack the dangerous escaped Alien Boris the animal( scary dude) who nearly got the earth destroyed in the past but got captured thanks to K, from killing a young Agent k ( Josh Brolin..wow!!) and preventing his(Boris’s) past self from making the mistake that led to his own downfall that in the future. Smith has to do all this so that Agent K remains alive and  can put in a safety device into orbit that can save the planets future from Boris’ planet mates brain shaped alien ships!

Needless to say Smith delivers what’s expected from him, comic situations, far less goof ups and sheer dialogue delivery that has you captured from the moment the dude speaks. Tommy Lee, not much there to say, he does what his character is expected to do .. be cold and conserved.. calm and slick. Besides the movie has more of the young Agent K in the form of the talented Mr. Josh Brolin. His character inspiration is beautiful, its certain that Brolin must’ve eaten out of each second of Agent K’s on screen time in MIB1 and 2. He literally plays the Tommy Lee character move for move. Acting wise all the lead characters deliver. Boris the antagonist is perfectly gross (Big Time! the first 5 minutes should prove that to you ), scary and menacing.

What's all the more fun is the intentional real Life character involvement in the flick! :P
1. Andy Warhol as Agent W !! the legendary artist who’s Banana artwork on the Velvet underground album cover still is considered as a masterpiece and gold standard of expression! You here the fella going ,’’get me outta here ! I’m painting banana’s and soup cans here!!!’’ Epic
2. Agent W’s reference of Mick Jagger as ‘Some guy with a band called the Rolling Stones’ .
3. The MIB headquarter screener shows Lady Gaga’s and David Beckham’s image as aliens being monitored.
4. The report from An Agent to the chief about aliens from the Viagrana race who have a brilliant product that can do marvels..(what product? Read into the name of the race more clearly)

All in all, a full money spinner movie. With aliens, gooey aliens, slick agents, weird aliens, mind blowing gizmos, crawly aliens and Will Smith… you get exactly what you paid for! Along with movie action that is just one dimension short of popping out of movie screen and into the theatre (kudos to the 3D and effects technicians), it’s another, and probably the last , of the summer blockbusters this year! Going for it, makes you want to watch the whole series all over again just to reconnect with it all once more :)