“Oh snap,” indeed, Stacy Ferguson.
Never mind that Men in Black/Jump Street crossover that former Sony head Amy Pascal threatened a few years ago. Instead there’s just another Men in Black film that stars not a single Hill, Tatum, Smith, or Jones—at least as far as the trailer is concerned. The sort-of-fourth Men in Black film, Men in Black: International, features Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth as the main pair rather than Agents J and K (Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones), rightfully re-teaming Valkyrie and Thor from the roundly-awesome Thor: Ragnarok of last year. But this is no fresh start.
No, the familiar silver-and-glowing-blue guns are back—and so are the obnoxious worm guys. And MIB head Emma Thompson. And the Noisy Cricket. And the Red Button. And the Battery Park headquarters. Even under the guidance of director F. Gary Gray, this Men in Black seems to retain the same sensibilities as series progenitor Barry Sonnenfeld: same great Barry flavor, but now with far more fuckable agents. Nice to see The Phantom Menace‘s Liam Neeson expositing in a round conference room again, though, and Chris Hemsworth finally leaning all the way into “charmingly handsome dope” territory, but—man—Thompson is just going to end up needlessly being Agent J’s daughter, right?
If they somehow squeezed a few more title cards out of Pablo Ferro (Men in Black credit artist who passed in November) for this, then all the better.
Men in Black: International hits theaters June 14.
