Starring:
 Tommy Lee Jones
 Will Smith
 Lara Flynn Boyle
 Rip Torn

Directed by:
 Barry Sonnefeld

Running Time:  88 minutes

Overall Crave Factor

Here’s the lowdown – Will Smith is back as Agent J.- he can’t stop neuralyzing his partners. Tommy Lee Jones – or Agent K – is now a gruff postmaster. Throw in a slimy alien that is essentially a tangle of really long rubber snakes and that’s the movie.

The jokes fall flat. Johnny Knoxville is totally unfunny, even with two heads. Lara Flynn Boyle is wasted and has about ten minutes total screen time as the big baddie. The talking dog is played out. The worms are funny, but only for about five minutes. David Cross is inexplicably back as a totally different character, and has one good line. Smith is doing the same jokes from the first movie, T.L.J. walks around moping and mumbling about being miserable, and Rip Torn does a flip, flirts with a rubber snake and then just looks embarrassed to be cashing his check. This is not funny, it’s sad.

When a big-budget, super-hype, “long-awaited” sequel is planned, is it not supposed to out-do the original? Shouldn’t there be more fun, more excitement, more action and bigger effects? This plays like an extended cut of a deleted subplot from a cheap knock-off of the original. It is only 88 minutes long. There is almost no story. The conflict is set up in two minutes and resolved in three, the remaining 83 minutes is just talking dog, recycled jokes from the first movie, talking dog, more recycled jokes, worm guys, two minutes of love story subplot and Lara Flynn Boyle in lingerie. I am VERY disappointed.

As a big fan of the original, I was hoping for a little of the old magic – not just a different cut of the first movie – sans jokes!!

If not for the opportunity to see Rip Torn do a flip, this movie would have gotten a big fat zero.