Here’s a little car candy for the holidays. There have been three :Men in Black” films, the last one in 2012 (even though it seems a lot longer ago, doesn’t it?). “Men in Black: International,” due for release on June 14, looks like it will showcase its vehicles in a way the previous movies didn’t, starting with getting the
Lexus RC F ready for its close-up. This will be
Lexus‘ second blockbuster turn in two years, after putting an LC in the line of fire
in this year’s “Black Panther“. And if “MIB: International” gives off the whiff of petrol, that’s at last partly because F. Gary Gray directs, the man behind 2003’s “The Italian Job
“ and 2017’s “
The Fate of the Furious.”
This is the first “MIB” to give the agents a whiz-bang modern car. The most modern vehicle previously was a “new hotness” 2003
Mercedes-Benz E550 in the 2002 sequel, but that was primarily a joke referring to the 1986
Ford LTD, referred to as a “Ford P.O.S.,” in the first movie. The third film, which took place in the sixties, used a 1964 Ford Galaxie.
“MIB: International” includes a few throwbacks to the movies and the television series. The RC F goes airborne with the help of a big red button, just like that ’86 LTD. A bigger and better hovercycle ties into the hovercycle from the TV show. The all-new move comes with a mid-seventies
Jaguar XJ; whereas the first agents merely retrieved their weapons from the trunk, the XJ not only holds weapons, it disassembles into weapons systems.
As
Jalopnik noted, in many ways this movie “
looks just like ‘Thor: Ragnarok‘ but set in a different universe.” Should go well enough with a bucket of popcorn and pail of Coca-Cola, though.
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