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Men in Black II (2002) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: While J is talking to Z from the park, J closes his communicator, but Z can still see J on his screen.
  
  
• Continuity: When Agent K removes his digital Hamilton from the clock tower in the Grand Central Station locker, Agent J replaces it with the new Hamilton Ventura Chronograph. The next shot shows K's digital Hamilton back in the spot.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Agent J is holding onto a thin leash when he and Agent K go with the dog into MIB headquarters. Once they're inside and the lift drops to the floor we see J drop the leash so the dog can go off screen.
  
  

• Factual errors: The movie takes place in July 2002, and Agent K sees the Orion constellation. Orion isn't visible from either hemisphere in July. (The seasons are reversed in the southern hemisphere, but the night sky is the same regardless of which hemisphere you are in.)
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Agent K is fighting a ball-chinnian in Jack Jeebs' basement, the rubber mask material at the base of the face mask (right at the top of the scarf/sweater he is wearing) is exposed as he pulls down the scarf/collar.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the two exterior shots of the diner, the same extras walk into the scene from the same directions. These two scenes in the movie are supposed to be hours apart.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Serleena's ship is in the yellow containment tent, as Jay leans over to look closer the camera crew can be seen in the reflection.
  
  
• Continuity: When we first see Serleena's ship, we see Jay reflected on the ship. In the reflection we see him using the communicator and talking to Zed (with one hand up to his ear) which doesn't happen until a few shots later.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During Agent J's fight against Jarra, a seam is visible in the ceiling after J recovers from being thrown against a wall. The seam is the track for the wire harness, used when J is carried to the back of the room by a flying Jarra copy a moment later.
  
  
• Continuity: Serleena's hairstyle changes throughout the movie (Barry Sonnenfeld admitted this was a problem because of the humidity during filming).
  
  
• Continuity: After J and K are flushed from MIB headquarters, the tubes that they end up in are the same height in close-up but are two different heights when seen in long shot.
  
  
• Continuity: When J is talking to "mail man-K" in K's own car, clouds appear in the background between shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After they are flushed in the beginning, J and K are wet, but when they get into the car they are suddenly dry without any explanation.
  
  
• Continuity: When the giant worm eats Serleena's flying ship in the subway, J is driving, but when they land on the rooftop K is driving.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Near the end when K presses the red button, you clearly see Times Square behind them. In the next shot of the car, they are seen flying through Times Square again (notice the Virgin Sign passing twice).
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Laura is playing twister with the wormboys in their apartment, she is supposedly holding herself up with one arm in "crab position." You can clearly see the legs of the support upon which she is reclining.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Serleena wrong answers " Yes, they're very sensitive about the Green house Effect" to a character taking the Earth's Ozone layer, even though the Green house effect is due to too much Green house gases, not Ozone depletion.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene when agent Jay is trying to get off the tubes to save Serlina the speaker says '30 seconds to launch' then in 10 seconds it says '15 seconds to launch' and then goes back to normal, meaning the 30 second countdown ends in 25 seconds.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the beginning of the film when agent J and agent T first encounter Jeff's weed-looking hair sticking out of the sidewalk grate, agent T bends down to grab the "weed". In one shot, T is obviously tugging away at nothing at all. Evidently, the digital effects team accidentally forgot to add the "weed" (which was computer generated) to that shot.
  
  
• Plot holes: Scrad just disappears when J's fighting the aliens in Jeeb's basement. There is no explanation or scene that shows what happened to him .
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Newton (David Cross) appears in both films. In the first MiB movie, he was last seen stuck to the ceiling in the morgue, courtesy of the bug, but still alive. It can be presumed that he was later cut down by a clean-up crew and neuralised. This could possibly explaining his "paranoid delusions" about aliens and the Men in Black, having some residual feeling of a memory of the events.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Agent Jay introduces Laura to the worms, one of them is shown exhaling tobacco smoke. The smoke is released from a tiny opening closely behind the front teeth, not from the throat.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When K summons the car remotely after Serleena is zapped, there is clearly a person driving the car to him.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The movie depicts the 81st Street and Central Park West subway stop as stopping for the A and C lines and depicts platforms being on both sides of the tracks. The real stop is for the B and C lines (not A) and only has platforms on one side.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When J comes out of the subway, a man walks down the left side of the stairs. J then tells 2 others that the subway is closed.
  
  

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