Regardless of whether or not you think that Men in Black 3 is a bad idea (Full disclosure: I do) thing is, there’s a lot of buzz starting to grow around the project.

With Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones returning and Josh Brolin signing up to play a young Tommy Lee Jones I suppose there’s three reasons right there to get excited.

But!

Although we know who is going to be in it, what about the plot?

Well, the folks over at JoBlo.com have managed to get their hands on some plot details and if their source is to be believed, this time around Agents Kay and Jay will travel through time. (I suppose that clears up the need to have Josh Brolin play a young Tommy Lee Jones).

Anyway, here’s a copy and paste jobby of JoBlo’s “Scoop”…

The film has Agent Jay sent back in time to 1969 where he teams up with a young Kay to stop an evil villain named Yaz from destroying the world in the future, and I’ve got a few more details about the project to share with you here.

Here’s what I’ve learned:

- There’s only one real bad guy in the film, and it’s Yaz, described as a nightmare biker who looks like Dennis Hopper and Satan. But it would seem it would be hard to craft a “badass hell biker” villain who is played by Flight of the Conchord’s Jemaine Clement and named after a side-effect prone brand of birth control. He’s not meant to be particularly funny and the movie is careful to describe him as oozing badassery and violence out of every pore, which makes me wonder why they’d cast Clement over someone more appropriate like Ron Perlman or Mickey Rourke.

- Further casting questions come up when it’s revealed Kay is supposed to be 26 in 1969. Josh Brolin is 42, Tommy Lee Jones is 64. That’s quite the gulf there, on a few different levels, and as talented as Brolin is, looking 40 years young than Tommy Lee Jones is pushing it. I can however see him playing a somewhat younger version of Jones’ stone-faced Kay quite well, and I think he’d be a good balance to Smith’s antics.

- The time travel plot actually kind of works in the MIB universe because there’s no real need for it to make perfect sense since the tone of the series is so goofy. But this spawns a lot of stereotypical time-travel comedy moments, including the mandatory “You’ve gotta believe me!” intro where Jay tries to convince past Kay he’s from the future and obvious jokes about Jay being black in the ‘60s.

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Still excited about Men in Black 3?

I’m not…

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