Men in Black II - Back in Black 2 DVD 2012 / Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld / Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville, Rosario Dawson / MIIB

UPC 4030521327184

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN EU

AUDIO: English 5.1, German 5.1

SUBTITLES: English, German, Turkish

Total Runtime: 84 minutes

English Summary:

Men in Black II (stylized as MIIB) is a 2002 American science fiction action Comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by Robert Gordon and Barry Fanaro. A sequel to Men in Black (1997), which in turn is loosely based on the Marvel Comics series The Men in Black by Lowell Cunningham, the film stars Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith reprising their roles from the first film, with Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville, Rosario Dawson, Tony Shalhoub and Rip Torn in supporting roles. It was also the final appearance of Torn in the series (although he did make a brief uncredited appearance in Men In Black 3), as he died in July 2019, about a month after MIB International was released.

Five years after the retirement of Agent K from Men in Black, a secret New York City-based agency that monitors and regulates extraterrestrial life residing on Earth, Agent J—K's former partner and hand-picked replacement—is called to investigate the murder of an alien, Ben, at his pizzeria. The waitress, Laura Vasquez, tells him that the murderers are Serleena, a shapeshifting, plant-like Kylothian who has taken the form of a Victoria's Secret lingerie model, and her two-headed servant Scrad and Charlie. 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.

J finds that little is known about the Light of Zartha, except that it is immensely powerful. As he investigates the crime, every lead points to his mentor, Agent K, who was neuralyzed upon retirement and remembers nothing of his MiB service. In Truro, Massachusetts, where K is now the town's postmaster, J convinces him by proving that all of his fellow postal workers are aliens. Back in New York City, Serleena along with Scrad and Charlie launch an attack on MiB headquarters before K's neuralyzation can be reversed, but Jack Jeebs has an illegal deneuralyzer in his basement. K regains his memories, but remembers that years before, he neuralyzed himself specifically to erase what he knew of the Light of Zartha and those memories have not returned. As a precaution, he left himself a series of clues.

German Summary:

Men in Black II (auch: MiB2, MiBII oder MIIB) ist eine US-amerikanische Science-Fiction-Komödie aus dem Jahre 2002. Es ist die Fortsetzung von Men in Black aus dem Jahre 1997. Eine weitere Fortsetzung ist Men in Black 3 aus dem Jahre 2012.

Agent J hat sich nach fünf Jahren bei den Men in Black (MIB), der Kontrollbehörde für außerirdische Aktivitäten in New York, zum Top-Agenten hochgearbeitet. Auf einmal taucht Serleena auf, ein bösartiges kylothisches Monster, das die Gestalt eines Unterwäschemodels angenommen hat. Sie sucht das „Licht von Zartha“, das die Zarthaner 25 Jahre vorher auf die Erde gebracht haben, um es dort zu verstecken. Die Men in Black durften es aber nicht behalten, um die Neutralität der Erde zu wahren und schickten es vorgeblichen in den Weltraum. Der damals für den Fall zuständige Agent scheint es allerdings trotzdem irgendwo auf der Erde versteckt zu haben. Das Licht ist so mächtig, dass es jedem Besitzer die vollkommene Herrschaft über den Planeten Zartha ermöglicht. 

Cast / Besetzung:

• Tommy Lee Jones as Kevin Brown / Agent K: A decommissioned senior MIB agent and the only person who knows (or knew) how to stop the latest threat to Earth's safety.
• Will Smith as James Darrell Edwards III / Agent J: Still on active duty with the MIB, he is not satisfied with the partners assigned to him and keeps neuralizing them.
• Lara Flynn Boyle as Serleena: A shapeshifting alien who has come to Earth to find a vital power source used by her race's enemies.
• Johnny Knoxville as Scrad / Charlie: A humanoid alien (Scrad), with a second small head (Charlie) on a stalk protruding from his neck, who does Serleena's dirty work.
• Rosario Dawson as Laura Vasquez: A young woman who turns out to be the long-lost alien princess from Zartha and the power source sought by Serleena.
• Tony Shalhoub as Jack Jeebs: An alien pawn shop owner who uses a home-built machine to "de-neuralize" K and restore his memory.
• Rip Torn as Chief Zed: The head of the MIB.
• Patrick Warburton as Agent T: Partnered with J, who neuralizes him and throws him out of the MIB after an incident with Jeff.
• Jack Kehler as Ben
• David Cross as Newton
• Colombe Jacobsen as Hailey
• John Alexander as Jarra
• Michael Jackson as Agent M (cameo)
• Martha Stewart as Herself (cameo)
• Peter Graves as Himself
• Linda Kim as Princess Lauranna, an alien from Zartha and the secret mother of Laura.
• Paige Brooks as 'Mysteries in History' Lauranna
• Nick Cannon as MIB Autopsy Agent
• Biz Markie as Alien Beatboxer
• Jeremy Howard as Postal Sorting Alien

Voices

• Tim Blaney as Frank the Pug
• Brad Abrell as Worm Guy
• Greg Ballora as Worm Guy
• Thom Fountain as Worm Guy
• Carl J. Johnson as Worm Guy
• Richard Pearson as Gordy