First off, they're both typical sequel type movies... in that they continue some time after the previous one finished ... something that might not be a typical sequel movie might be the Three Colours trilogy, where the third one is related to the first two, without being a direct continuation of the story... But neither Blade II nor Men in Black II get anywhere near as deep that, so don't worry... it's all braindead action fluff here (:

Having only watched the whole of MIB the weekend before on free-to-air TV, I sort of knew what I was in for ... more of the "let's go kill some alien thingies and use kewl weapon thingies " ... which is exactly what we got... 88 minnutes of weird alien thingies, a sort of side-story with requisite like interest, and the same kinds of jokes as the first time around ... I didn't mind, it was Friday night and I wasn't going to the movies for intellectual stimulation ... geez ...

When I went to see Blade, I laughed through a fair bit of it ... I can't remember why, but it might have had to do with all the expoding bodies and serious faces... but I might be weird. This time, I was laughing because Cat (Danny John-Jules, Red Dwarf) plays a vampire ... even though there weren't any Cat-like lines ... it was like seeing Rimmer, sorry, Chris Barrie, in Tomb Raider ... There was a sameness to the storyline again ... just different things to kill off this time ... and another love interest... *sigh*.

Oh well, we were in the mood for some brain dead entertainment, and we got that without falling asleep, with much actiony sequences (Blade II was full of them ... a few Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon-esque leaping fights ...) - Decay wasn't complaining like he was after Planet of the Apes, where he ranted all the way from the cinema exit through the next smoke and the car trip back home ... but we knew what we were in for this time ... so it was all ok... But ... you'd reckon that maybe one day they might actually have some plot next time?