MEN IN BLACK (Franchise)
Men in Black (also known as MIB) is a series of American science fiction action comedy films directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, and based on Malibu / Marvel comic book series The Men in Black by Lowell Cunningham. The first film Men in Black was released in 1997, the second film Men in Black II in 2002, the third film Men in Black 3 in 2012, and the fourth film Men in Black: International in 2019. Amblin Entertainment and MacDonald/Parkes Productions produced all four films and distributed through Columbia Pictures.(More from Wikipedia)
Speaking of under-appreciation, don’t listen to the film critics who slammed the third entry in the Men in Black franchise, Men in Black 3. This one has all of the cleverness that was largely missing from the second film (though I have come to enjoy that one as well after the fourth or fifth viewing) and features time travel back to 1969, where Andy Warhol is portrayed as an undercover “man in black”. I thoroughly enjoyed MIB 3 myself.
(March 2013)
