History Film / MenInBlackII

* GoryDiscretionShot: When a mugger grabs Serleena in Central Park, he drags her behind a bush with pretty obvious intentions. Said bush ends up obscuring what happens next, when Serleena devours the Human alive, although how she does it is assumed to be extremely horrifying. All that we do see are his legs as he's swallowed whole.

* ProperlyParanoid: Newton.

* BareYourMidriff: Serleena in the beginning of the film.

* UnexplainedRecovery: Newton, the exterminator from the first movie, appears in the sequel as a video store associate, despite seemingly dying in the previous one.

* RetiredBadass: K.

* GoryDiscretionShot: When a mugger grabs Serleena in Central Park, he drags her behind a bush with pretty obvious intentions. Said bush ends up obscuring what happens next, when Serleena devours the Human alive, although how she does it is assumed to be extremely nasty. All that we do see are his legs as he's swallowed whole.

* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: J tells K that MIB work is not for people who want to be a hero, as the inherent secrecy of the job means that no recognition will ever come. He makes a point of mentioning James Edwards (his now-erased civilian identity), who saved dozens of lives in the subway that night and will never be thanked for it because nobody remembers that he even exists.

* BuxomIsBetter: Lampshaded by Serleena:

* WhyAmITicking: The [[spoiler:Light of Zartha's]] Watch.

* UnstoppableRage: After J's new recruit foolishly tries to pull on Jeffrey (the Subway Worm's) flower, to put it simply, he's extremely P.O.'ed, and starts lashing out at everything, including J, and then rampaging across the Subway tunnels. He eventually calms down after J attempts to threaten to blast him if he doesn't calm down, and presumably also due to the tranquilizer that he injected earlier finally going into effect after the slight delay.

* TransformationDiscretionShot: A ''triple dose'' of this occurs in the intro: [[BigBad Serleena]] initially starts out as a small green plant/worm creature left in the middle of Central Park; then, after she encounters a discarded magazine with a Victoria's Secret advert, countless little tendrils start to pour out of her mouth and take on new shapes until they all but envelop the screen - before we cut back to the magazine. Then we cut to a FeetFirstIntroduction and slow pan up her new form, [[MsFanservice a woman in high heels and black lingerie]] based on the model in the advert. ''Then'' a rapist makes the mistake of dragging her offscreen, only to be brutally eaten alive before he can even try anything; seconds later, Seerlena walks back into view with a huge BalloonBelly. Quickly realizing that her new disguise is causing problems, she walks back off-camera, [[GoryDiscretionShot audibly pukes up the dead rapist]], and walks back into shot with her belly normal-sized again - only ''this'' time [[MuggedForDisguise she's carrying her victim's clothes]].
* UnexplainedRecovery: Newton, the exterminator from the first movie, appears in the sequel despite seemingly dying in the previous one.

* RedHerring: J (and the viewer) are led to believe that the Light of Zartha was Laura's watch. Actually, the watch was a time bomb activated to blow up with enough explosive power to destroy the planet (presumably as a means to avoid the villain from gaining it on Earth). [[spoiler:The ''real'' Light of Zartha was actually Laura herself.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: J neuralyzes Newton at the video store, and gives him an instruction to not live with his mother, as he was a middle-aged man. It is heavily implied (by him calling for his mother while brandishing a shovel) that he kills her to follow this instruction from J.

* OneWingedAngel: Serleena's final takeover of the Subway Worm.

** When the man reading the newspaper expresses his gladness while reading his newspaper about J and K returning to the MIB headquarters after Serleena locked it down, the headlines state that Satan has returned to Earth. In the original comic of the Men in Black, besides tracking aliens, the MIB also tracked down demons and supernatural entities.

--->'''Jeebs''':([[HeliumSpeech in a high pitch voice when his mouth grows back]]) [[SarcasmMode Real Nice]].\\

** Serleena uses one of her Tentacles to slice through the skin suit of another Alien and apparently vaporises him, leaving nothing but the two halves of his Human disguise.

** At the video store, the co-owner rambles about her theories, including one about how Caribbean resorts charging crab meals for $5 is a conspiracy. Once she and Newton are neuralyzed, Kay instructs them to go on vacation, buy a crab meal and charge more than $5.

** Serleena swallows a man at least a foot taller than her.

* ApatheticCitizens: J is thrown through the window of a New York subway train shortly after attempting to sedate Jeffrey with a tranquilizer and immediately starts shouting at everyone to evacuate to the next car. The passengers ignore him until Jeffrey bites a chunk off the car. Once the crisis is resolved and the train limps to a stop in the station, he neuralyzes them [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and starts subliminally calling them out]] [[ShamingTheMob about this by pointing out that in an actual emergency, they would have been eaten]]. [[SayingTooMuch He is then forced to reneuralyze them once he realizes that he's carried on for far too long]], now with a hilarious story requesting that they enjoy using new space-efficient, energy-saving cars.

* ApatheticCitizens: J is thrown through the window of a New York subway train shortly after attempting to sedate Jeffrey with a tranquilizer and immediately starts shouting at everyone to evacuate to the next car. The passengers ignore him until Jeffrey bites a chunk off the car. Once the crisis is resolved and the train limps to a stop in the station, he neuralyzes them and starts chewing them out about this by pointing out that in an actual emergency, they would have been eaten. He then reneuralyzes them once he realizes that he's carried on for far too long, now with a hilarious story requesting that they enjoy using new space-efficient, energy-saving cars.

''Men in Black II'' (stylized ''MIIB'') is a 2002 American science fiction action comedy film starring Creator/TommyLeeJones and Creator/WillSmith. The film is a sequel to the 1997 film ''Film/MenInBlack'' and was followed by ''Film/MenInBlack3'', released in 2012.

With K officially retired (with his memory wiped and civilian identity restored) J has been working overtime as the top field agent of [=MiB=]. A powerful and malevolent alien named Serleena (Creator/LaraFlynnBoyle) returns to Earth looking for "The Light of Zartha," which is tied to a case K was involved with back in the '70s. To get the information they need, they reinstate K and get back to business.

* UnexplainedRecovery: Newton, the exterminator from the first movie, appears in the sequel despite seemignly dead in the previous one.

** Know that weird language J speaks in to the guy in the mail room? Well, the mailman is actually [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biz_Markie Biz Markie]], and that "weird alien language" is actually [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatboxing beatboxing]]. Smith' had previously used that particular beat in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1dcmk_IbiA an episode]] of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir''.

* SamePlotSequel: J recruiting K was largely a role reversal from the first film of a veteran trying to bring a new recruit up to speed, while also trying to repeat similar gags like the noisy cricket and give larger roles to Frank and the Worms. The main villain is also a shapeshifter with a monstrous OneWingedAngel form, looking for a {{Macguffin}} that is not as obvious as we think it is.

* ToiletTeleportation: Parodied when Jay and Kay have to be "[[IncrediblyLamePun flushed]]" from headquarters. They're not flushed out through an actual toilet... just something that looks like one.