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Men In Black Collector's Edition (1997) (1997)
Front Cover Actor
Tommy Lee Jones
Will Smith
Linda Fiorentino
Vincent D\'Onofrio
Rip Torn
Movie Details
Director Barry Sonnenfeld
Studio COLUMBIA TRI-STAR HOME VIDEO
Language English
Audience Rating PG
Running Time 94 mins
Country USA
Color Color
Plot
This imaginative comedy from director Barry Sonnenfeld (Get Shorty) is a lot of fun, largely on the strength of Will Smith's engaging performance as the rookie partner of a secret agent (Tommy Lee Jones) assigned to keep tabs on Earth-dwelling extra-terrestrials. There's lots of comedy to spare in this bright film, some of the funniest stuff found in the margins of the major action (a scene with Smith's character being trounced in the distance by a huge alien while Jones questions a witness is a riot.) The inventiveness never lets up, and the cast--including Vincent D'Onofrio doing frighteningly convincing work as an alien occupying a decaying human--hold up their end splendidly. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

On the DVD: This Collector's Edition disc contains a "Visual Commentary" that features director Barry Sonenfeld and actor Tommy Lee Jones in an anecdotal conversation, but with the unique twist that they are displayed as silhouettes on your TV screen (imagine you're sitting in the back row of the cinema and they are up front) using a pointer to highlight particular events on screen. If you have a widescreen TV, the menu prompts you to switch to 4:3 mode to see this. There is also a "Visual Effects Scene Deconstruction" in which the tunnel scene and the Edgar Bug fight scene are dissected into their constituent parts; an in-depth documentary, "Metamorphosis of MIB", which charts the progress of the concept from comic book to screen; five "Extended and Alternate" scenes; trailers, including a teaser for MIB II; and Will Smith's "Men in Black" music video. --Mark Walker

Personal Details
Seen It Yes
Index 249
Collection Status In Collection
Links IMDB
Product Details
Format DVD
Region Region 2
Screen Ratio 1.85 Wide Screen
Release Date 2002
Subtitles Arabic; Bulgarian; Czech; Danish; Dutch; English; Finnish; French; German; Greek; Hebrew; Hindi; Hungarian; Icelandic; Norwegian; Polish; Swedish; Turkish
Audio Tracks French
German
English
Nr of Disks/Tapes 1
Extra Features
Collector's Edition Dubbed PAL Widescreen