SmokeScreeners review: 
Year of Release: 1997
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Distributor: Sony
The film was reviewed by:
- Dr. Barry Hummel on 9/28/2007
- Chelsea S. from Bell High School on 3/16/2009
Dr. Hummel posted the following additional comments:
"Men in Black is a funny, clever film. The basic premise is that aliens have been hiding among us and living on earth undercover. In order to keep the peace, the Men in Black were created as a secret police force. They monitor the activities of the aliens to make sure that they behave themselves.
Most of the aliens have assimilated quite nicely. During the movie, however, there is a crisis in which an alien species decides the time has come to destroy the earth. The Men in Black are trying to avert the crisis, but many of the aliens living on earth seem to have lost confidence in the group and began a mass evacuation. The following scene takes place as aliens of all shapes and sizes are scrambling to get off the planet before it is reduced to space dust; click here to view the clip on Facebook
If you look carefully at these 'sorry little ingrates', you will notice that they are trying to take a cart-full of cartons of Marlboro cigarettes!
Think about it. These space worms have determined that the one thing that they cannot live without if the Earth is destroyed is cigarettes. Now that is an addiction...
By the way, this sort of tobacco product placement was supposed to end with the Master Settlement Agreement bewteen the major tobacco companies and the states' attorney generals in 1998. So, why do these same worms smoke the same brand in Men in Black II?"