I used this for a Christmas Showcase and a My Favorite Intros, but let’s go back to the beginning. Well…the beginning of the series.
Men In Black was a 1990s comic published by Aircel Comics. I would love to read it because I hear the movie took a lot of liberties, to the point that the movie would be propaganda in the comic universe. (MIB are actually not the good guys, or so I’ve heard.) It was made in to a comedy movie franchise in the late 1990s, and the first movie was popular enough to create an animated spinoff, Men In Black: The Series, airing on Kids WB.
Unlike the movies, K doesn’t leave the organization, he and J are still partners, and L is now in the lab and more experienced than J, so the show took its own liberties from the source it was working on, despite using the movie version of J and K, as well as using Will Smith’s movie song as an instrumental for the closing credits. I wonder if that’s why the second film brought K back instead of continuing J and L from the end of the first movie. As much as I enjoyed seeing Smith and Tommy Lee Jones play off each other, I would have rather seen Smith and Linda Fiorentino would have done versus simply doing Smith and Jones (I wonder if that was intentional at some point late in casting?) simply reversing their roles from the first movie.
Still, the series is really good, so let me start you with episode 1, as J’s inexperience leads to him being marked for death by an entire planet. Enjoy.
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