Men in Black II – 2-Disc Special Edition

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	Tommy Lee Jones	Kay
	Will Smith	Jay
	Rip Torn	Zed
	Lara Flynn Boyle	Serleena
	Johnny Knoxville	Scrad
	Rosario Dawson	Laura Vasquez
	Tony Shalhoub	Jeebs
	Patrick Warburton	Agent Tee
	Jack Kehler	Ben
	David Cross	Newton
	Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine	Hailey
	Peter Spellos	Motorman
	Michael Rivkin	Man with Dog
	Michael Bailey Smith	Creepy
	Lenny Venito	New York Guy
	Howard Spiegel	New York Guy
	Alpheus Merchant	MIB Guard
	Jay Johnston	Agent
	Joel McKinnon Miller	Agent
	Derek Cecil	Repairman Agent
	Sean Rouse	MIB Agent
	Peter Spruyt	MIB Customs Agent
	Kevin Cotteleer	MIB Customs Agent
	Marty Belafsky	MIB Customs Agent
	Rick Baker	MIB Passport Control Agent

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Director	Barry Sonnenfeld
Writer	Lowell Cunningham, Robert Gordon, Barry Fanaro
Producer	Marc Haimes, Stephanie Kemp, Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes, Graham Place, Steven Spielberg
Musician	Danny Elfman
Photography	Greg Gardiner

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Story Synopsis:
Five years ago, Jay (Smith) and Kay (Jones) were agents working for the government in search of aliens. In “Men In Black II,” Jay still works for the secret department but Kay, who had his memory of his former self erased, is now living the simple life of a civilian. When Serleena (Boyle), an evil alien who disguises herself as a lingerie model, hits town intent on destroying the earth’s population, Jay springs into action. Turning to his former partner, Jay restores Kay’s memory, and the two join forces to save the world from all things evil. Based on the Malibu Comic by Lowell Cunningham. (Tricia Littrell)

DVD Picture:
The anamorphically enhanced 1.85:1 DVD exhibits a bright picture that is sharp and nicely detailed, with excellent contrast. Shadow delineation is also superb, with excellent visual information in the darkest scenes. Colors are rich and well balanced, with accurate fleshtones and, aptly, deep blacks. While pixelization is minor, edge enhancement can be quite annoying, especially in the many high contrast black coats against white background scenes. (Suzanne Hodges)

Soundtrack:
The Dolby Digital 5.1-channel audio presentation features excellent fidelity and, in general, offers honest-to-goodness surround sound. There's a rather pleasing sense of atmosphere throughout, both with the music and effects. The soundstage has the tendency to be somewhat biased toward the screen channels. Still, the superb recording quality makes this soundtrack a standout and wonderful for playback on high-end home theatre systems. The music score, as well, features great fidelity, and has a welcome, palpably panoramic presence across the screen. Surround envelopment is sometimes aggressive in nature, with poignant split surround engagement. It is characteristically modest in nature, though, yet is certainly effective, particularly in the rendering of atmosphere. The “deneuralizer” in Chapter 10 offers a nice example of the creative use of surrounds in fully enveloping you. And this effect should surely be accentuated throughout the use of back surround processing. Another distinguished aspect of this soundtrack presentation is the dialogue, for which voices sound particularly natural in terms of tonality and spatial placement. Deep bass is especially clean and articulate with the music score, and along with detailed and occasionally powerful effects rendering, offers low frequency extension to below 25 Hz all around. This is a great audio production that takes effective advantage of both fidelity and dimension. (Perry Sun)

This Disc Contains The Following WSR-Rated Superb Qualities:
Superb Sound Effects Recording Quality
Superb Music Score Recording Quality
Superb Special Visual Effects Quality

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