MIB 3. There are a couple of reasons why you would purchase a ticket to watch this. One is you probably watched the Avengers more than 5 times and your girlfriend/wife would want to watch something else, or literally switching your tickets last minute. Another one would probably you have a huge crush on Will Smith, and you are buying a ticket to support his black ass in business. A small part of you will watch because of the loyalty of the franchise and you have watched MIB 1 and MIB 2(no matter how bad it was.), and therefore, you HAVE to watch the third installment. (You guys were probably the market share that George Lucas targeted for Part 1…or the latest installment of Indiana Jones and the second transformers…and no, I refuse to acknowledge the existence of the third one because there is no Megan Fox. No Megan, No go for me…and many other hot blooded male. But I digress.) Also, another reason is there is not other movies you would prefer to watch, unless you would like to watch Johnny Depp act as another weirdo, in another Tim Burton movie again….with Helena Bonham Carter as the lead actress. What a surprise! (I was being sarcastic here, in case some of you think I was really wide eyed in disbelief they were casted together…again. I would actually be surprised if there comes a day where a Tim Burton movie does not include any of them)

But then, a minority of you, and I mean, a really small minority, watch because of an actor named Josh Brolin. Because in my case, this acto, by showing how good he truly is at diversifying his roles, and nailing each and everyone of them, should be the reason you watch this movie.

Now, I am not going to shoot down the movie for what it is. It is a summer movie made by a movie studio intent on making some good profit. It is a typical summer movie where you go in, grab some popcorn, laugh, have a good time while watching it , talk about how funny will smith is (but not funnier than Tommy Lee Jones’ botox-ed face) (can somebody please tell him its for young teenagers and not for him?)(Again, I am being sarcastic. Sheesh. Are you guys all Sheldon Coopers?) and then go home to your sad, boring, mundane life. It is also a movie that makes you go, “Why does all the shit happen in New York? God, don’t they have enough problems already?”

I will also not discount the fact that it was an entertaining movie, with banters and fast quips and the absurd characters that we have grown to accept in that movie universe. Will Smith too, reprise his role, J, well. He still is the wise-cracking, fast-talking, (now SENIOR) MIB agent who finds his long time Mentor and partner, K, erased from History by K’s old nemesis, Boris the animal(Though he really prefers it to be “just Boris.” And insist on it several times in the movie.), who has broken out of a moon jail. He then has to go back in time, 40 years back, with a 1.21 gigawatts flux capacitor powered car…Oh wait, I got the wrong movie…(it was really just a small unimpressive clam like device.) to prevent that from happening. Here’s where it gets interesting, he meets K while he was a rookie agent, played brilliantly by Josh Brolin. He deadpans and talks in that same monotone way that Tommy Lee (Jones, not the one that banged Pamela Lee Anderson.) has successfully mastered for k. He is truly believable as someone who would grow into a weary, seen it all done it all, MIB agent K. And at the same time, he makes K more human, more endearing to us viewers. And that is exactly what I am talking about earlier about choice. You take the blue pill…oh wait…wrong movie again.

What I meant was, the reason why the MIB series is so enjoyable is because of the difference of polarity amongst its two main characters. J and K. It works in a Hollywood proven way that a fast talking, joke cracking, street smart black man who is paired up with an unlikely partner, preferably white/asian, who doesn’t like to talk much and is pretty much somber for the entire movie. And it works. I don’t mean to stereotype but it really does work. No matter if it is Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke, or Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan, the dynamic works because we love it. We love the humour and we embrace the difference and it could not be more American than that. And Josh Brolin works the young character K into a perfection, giving us a hindsight of how K turned out to be K. Watch it, and you’ll see how good he is.

Also, you might want to go to the cinema early as you wouldn’t want to miss a fantastic cameo appearance of Nicole Scherzinger, whose ample assets gave the movie a scintillating and titillating start. Remember, there is no CGI on that scene, or at least, gravity. It also sadly is the only out-of-this-world proportions that we will see on the movie. It will be raining men in black after that prologue scene, so just a heads up for those who think i am hinting of more.

So, buy a big bag of popcorn, grab some buddies or a loved one, take a time off, relax, lose yourself to a universe not unlike ours, just infinitely possible.

Cheers.