Men in Black (1997) is the perfect action packed comedy. It stars Tommy Lee Jones as K, the straight-faced veteran of a top-secret division of the CIA. The division keeps an eye on aliens that live on earth and keeps humans from knowing about them. K says it’s because, “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it”. K recruits Will Smith to the MiB as his new partner and give up his identity to defend earth.

The movie shows that anyone from Al Roker and Sylvester Stallone to the guy down the street could be a masked alien. They usually live among us humans peacefully, but an alien specie resembling a huge cockroach gracelessly takes over the body of a redneck named Edgar. The alien comes to earth in search of a small galaxy that contains sub-atomic power, but the government of that galaxy would sooner self-destruct, destroying earth in the process, than fall into the wrong hands.

More importantly, audiences will go bananas for the mind-blowing special effects and fall out of their seats laughing at the comedic dream team of Jones and Smith as they fight aliens. Men in Black is a timeless film that everyone should pick up the next time they’re in the mood for big laughs.