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Men in Black II (2002)
Take in the matinee or rent the DVD.
I'm rather glad I caught the movie during a weekday matinee when it first opened - it is a fun movie, with some good moments, but in the end it really is just a similar plot to the first movie, except that they try to cram too much into the 90 minutes that the movie goes on to allow things to develop. As a result, parts of the plot feel forced... though maybe this could have been fixed by dropping the intro five minute 'video' and making a shorter summary, allowing them to put in a few more minutes of setup.
The short summary is 'Agent K and Agent J go back out to kick some alien ass'. The longer form involves some hints of past and present romances, a bunch of worms, a talking dog who has some good lines, and a few parodies which end up falling flat on their faces as far as being humorous.
If you enjoyed the first movie, you may enjoy the second if your expectations aren't for something newer and better; that it's not. Is it fun? Yes. Is it worth $8.00? I'm not sure on this one - I caught it on a $5 CDN matinee (which ends up being like 50 cents US), and I feel I got my money's worth out of it. Just don't expect parts of the movie to make sense, even if the few cameos are kinda funny if obvious in retrospect.
The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time (1998)
It was a fun game, not high art, but the FMV was decent.
The final chapter of the Journeyman Project series of games, it closes on a somewhat cheesy note but has better acting than most FMV games that I can name with some exceptions (noted below).
Jerry Rector as Gage Blackwood really doesn't do too much in this game, given that you are 'him' for all of the game. His cutscenes make him the square-jawed and stereotypical hero with less-wooden acting than most of his coworkers, if not by much.
The real highlight here is the actor who voiced Arthur, the wise-cracking AI who first appeared in the previous game of the series. He is, unlike the rest of the cast, not bound to stay in the setting of the game and is willing to mock it for what it is.
Each of the period scenes were, for the most part, acted with the quality of a 'B' movie: ethnic stereotypes were prevalent and highlighted, based on the Hollywood ideas of each culture (pseudo-Tibetan/Asian, pseudo-Greek, and pseudo-South American).
Despite these glaring flaws, the FMV flowed well and was of better quality than is usually found in games of this period.