Corrected entry: The Army Colonel says "Take them to the brig". However, the brig is used in the Navy. The Army has the stockade. (01:22:45)
Corrected entry: When J goes back in time to the 60's headquarters, they have exactly the same elevator they did earlier in 2012, not the elevator from Men in Black 1, or a different design.
Correction: This simply means that the MIB have remodeled their headquarters many times, and the elevator they had in 1969 happened to look like the elevator they had in 2012.
Corrected entry: When K is killed in the past, why is J still with the Men in Black? It is only because of K that he joined them, so he should not be working with them at all.
Corrected entry: J and K refer to the space center in 1969 as "Cape Canaveral." From 1962-72 the official and commonly used name was "Cape Kennedy"
Correction: The term "Cape Canaveral" was used before so it's not unreasonable to think it would be used again.
Corrected entry: In one of the first shoots on the moon, a Apollo moon lander is visible as a relic of the Apollo missions. However, the complete lander module consisting of the ascent AND descent modules is shown; which would mean the crew of the Apollo-mission in question would have never left the moon again.
Correction: While the mistake is technically correct, that a lunar lander observed on the moon today wouldn't have an ascent stage, this particular lunar lander [probably Apollo 15, judging by its upper hemisphere location] had a big structure built around it, and has been cordoned off, so in all likelihood the builders of the prison restored the ascent stage to the lander. Or it's a secret mission and the astronauts helped build the prison, and thus the ascent stage was never used. Or it's just a replica, like many museums on Earth have. [Transformers: Dark of the Moon made this same mistake, but with a landing site that wouldn't have been altered by subsequent visits.]
Corrected entry: While J is fighting the fish, and it has him pinned against the wall outside, there is an ATM-like machine beside them. When J rips out the creature's heart, it falls over towards the machine. The fish's shadow is cast on the wall, but as it passes over the ATM, no shadow falls on the machine. (00:16:55)
Correction: The fish does have a shadow as it falls, but it falls about ten feet from the ATM, and the shadow trails accordingly. If you follow the arc of the shadow as it falls, it's on a flat surface, and the ATM sticks out about three feet. Therefore, the shadow would have gone along the side away from the camera's view, and not in front of the machine.
Corrected entry: It doesn't make sense that Boris is so adamant that he missed Jay when he was shooting him on the platform. Literally every single time Boris shot at someone while either he or his target was moving, he missed. The only time he ever hit a target was when both he and his target were completely stationary.
Corrected entry: Why do they have to use the Apollo 11 rocket to put the Arc-net into orbit? The MiB seem to be baffled by the task of putting something into space, but aliens in 1969 seem to regularly land on earth. MiB could easily use some of the alien spaceships to put the Arc-Net into earth orbit. Boris would be defeated then.
Correction: Just because aliens have been landing on Earth regularly and MiB has contact with them, does not mean that 60's MiB have that sort of technology yet. They don't even seem to use their own space travel tech in the first two movies that take place way later.
Probably because the MIB want to keep Arc-Net secret until it is actually deployed in order to prevent a hostile alien from stealing it or sabotaging it.
I know some say MiB-Movies are not necessarily canonical. But there were 2 saucers parking at the New York State Pavilion "the bug" stole later in movie 1. Beside of that I guess MiB could've managed to smuggle the little Arc-Net into a another more discret rocket even years later, giving MiB enough time to protect the Arc-Net plus hunting both Borises down in the meanwhile. I know film-logic and so on, but a bit sloppy writing I guess in many ways.
Corrected entry: When J is travelling backwards in time, he passes the Great Depression and sees a couple of men jumping off the building. But nobody was ever recorded to have jumped off the Chrysler Building in the Depression. The only suicides committed were by gunshot.
Correction: Artistic license.
Corrected entry: When J arrives in Coney Island in 1969, the Wonder Wheel has a big American flag right below the ferris wheel's name. The Wonder Wheel didn't have the flag until some time in 2011, marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11. (00:41:50)
Correction: If looked at closely, the flag pole and flag are not below the Wonder Wheel name. Rather, it is some distance in front of it, between the wheel, and Deno's Snack Bar. So it's not the memorial flag, but a randomly-displayed one.
Corrected entry: After J and K leave the diner, Griffin says "This is my new favorite moment in human history, unless this is the one where K forgot to leave a tip" and the shot pans over to K's meal he left. Here we can see K's food is on a plate, but when K says "almost forgot" after placing his tip next to the meal, the food is now in a bowl. (01:37:35)
Correction: It's still a plate, just from a different angle. Maybe a saucer - it's a little deep, but not a bowl, it didn't change.
Corrected entry: When Boris blows a hole in the ceiling the girl's clothes change from a dress to pants. (00:05:05)
Correction: The girl always has a dress. Those "pants" are actually her boots. It's just that the boots are that long it kind of seems like pants, but she definitely has a dress on the whole time.
Corrected entry: One of the headstones seen at Zed's funeral bears the letter M, possibly referring to Michael Jackson who spoke with Zed about becoming "Agent M" in Men in Black II.
Correction: Or it could be a reference to M the head of MI6 in the James Bond Movies. It's only trivia if it's true.
The fact that a headstone is seen with the initial "M" is the trivia, which is true. The possibility is mentioned only to tie the trivia back to the previous film, and in real life Michael Jackson died since MIB II. Nothing in the film series suggest it could M from the Bond films as a possibility.
Corrected entry: The boglodites invasion starts when agent J is about to time jump. It doesn't make sense for them to wait 40 years to invade Earth in the the new reality (after Boris succeeds to kill agent K and steal the arcnet) especially when we hear that they would starve to death before finding another planet to consume in case they fail to penetrate Earth. This reasoning is confirmed when we know that in the original timeline they are extinct 40 years ago, which means they were already very very hungry at that time and couldn't have the luxury to wait few more years.
Correction: This is explained if you listen very carefully. The boglodites planet is 20 lightyears away from earth, meaning, it would take Boris 20 years to get back to his planet and then another 20 to return ot invade Earth equalling 40 years.
That's so totally wrong in many ways, not the least of which, that's not how light-years work. More importantly, in the original timeline, it is said that the Boglodites tried and failed to invade 40 years before - meaning shortly after the arcnet was deployed. So, Boris takes the device, and suddenly they decide to wait 40 years? This plot hole still makes no sense.
I think the arcnet prevents them from invading 40 years later, effectively defeating them because they can't reach another planet in time. They didn't invade in 1969 originally. So with the arcnet present (not deployed), the boglodites never invade.
Even if we accept this correction, it still doesn't explain why they didn't starve to death! However, the explanation still doesn't hold. Remember, the Boglodites' fleet "was" there, upon us on Earth, 40 years ago, yet they failed because the ArcNet was deployed. They all came to invade Earth along with Boris number 1. In the altered timeline, Boris 2 travels back in time, kills K, steals the ArcNet, but there is still no reason and no explanation whatsoever for them waiting and starving to death.
They didn't invade in 1969, they invade in the present. J enters a different reality, one without K, but he is is still in his own time. That's where the Boglodites invade because there is no ArcNet. Then he goes back to 1969 so they can deploy the ArcNet and prevent the Boglodites from coming to Earth at all.
Corrected entry: When J is questioned by the police, he is on the hood of the car with no sunglasses, however after they click the neuralizer he is wearing sunglasses.
Correction: You don't point out that in the first shot he's laying down and the next he's standing up facing the other way. If he has time to stand up and turn around he can take the glasses out of his pocket and put them on at the same time.
He is not standing up, it's a continuity mistake https://youtu.be/Y-cCAY2hGPs?t=1m29s.
Correction: Before the launch complex was built, Cape Canaveral was a naval port for both military and civilian, and as of 2018 still contains an operational US Navy base which supports aspects of the submarine ballistic missile program. It therefore would make sense for a military officer, even of a different branch, to use the term brig, since that was the kind of facility present.