Review of Men in Black: International (2019) by Zemai — 29 Oct 2019

I think Sony would have done better to play the "book smart girl without street smarts" and "street smart man without book smarts" more to the point. The movie has a long cringe worthy "introduction" before we finally have two agents working a case... but once started it does mellow out into something watchable.

Sony seems to clearly want to play this trope, but is clearly a scared of offending their audience and hence dials back on the humor which mostly just ends up making both characters look like jerks. (Which, let's face it, they are... but that's why the gag works when done right.).

The golden age of cinema is dead... but they really didn't do that badly, just were scared to take a very good concept and push it to the point that someone might get offended. I mean the setup is there, the scenes themselves seem to stop just short of cracking the joke you'd expect them to.

I mean, at one scene you can clearly see that Agent M should probably be begging that her new friend doesn't kill someone else in as horrible way as possible. Instead the scene cuts from what was clearly setup to be a joke and it's over as soon as it started.