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"MEN IN BLACK 3"
(2012) (Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones) (PG-13)


Alcohol/Drugs Mild
Blood/Gross Stuff Heavy
Disrespectful/Bad Attitude Extreme
Frightening/Tense Scenes Heavy
Gun/Weapons Extreme
Imitative Behavior Heavy
Jump Scenes Minor
Music (Scary/Tense) Heavy
Music (Inappropriate) None
Profanity Moderate
Sex/Nudity Moderate
Smoking Minor
Tense Family Scenes Moderate
Topics to Talk About Heavy
Violence Extreme


QUICK TAKE:
Sci-Fi: A secret agent travels back in time to prevent an extraterrestrial from killing his partner back then and thus altering the course of history.
PLOT:
Despite being paired together for more than a decade as partners working for a secret agency designed to hide the fact that extraterrestrials exist on Earth and keep the peace between them and their human counterparts, Agent J (WILL SMITH) knows next to nothing about Agent K (TOMMY LEE JONES). When he tries to find answers from K or their agency boss, Agent O (EMMA THOMPSON), all he gets is that he shouldn't ask questions that have answers he wouldn't want to hear. Accordingly, all he knows is that something in the past changed K into the dour, hardened man that he is today.

J gets the chance to see exactly what that was when Boris the Animal (JEMAINE CLEMENT), an extraterrestrial assassin, escapes from his lunar prison. Having been sent there decades earlier by K who also took Boris' arm, the alien is determined to change all of that by going back into time and killing K before the arrest. He apparently succeeds, as K disappears and any history about him is rewritten, leaving only J remembering that he formerly lived through the present.

Realizing that means a protective and alien repelling energy field around Earth was never deployed and that a Boglodite invasion is now imminent, J travels back to 1969 to stop Boris from killing K, all too aware that he must avoid his partner's younger self (JOSH BROLIN). With the occasional help of another alien, Griffin (MICHAEL STUHLBARG), who can see all possible futures simultaneously, J unwillingly gets partnered with young K and they set out to find and stop Boris before history is once again changed.

WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT?
If they liked either of the first two films in the series, are fans of anyone in the film and/or pics about extraterrestrials, they might show some interest in this.
WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: PG-13
For sci-fi action violence, and brief suggestive content.


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