Corrected entry: The opening of the film says it takes place in July 2002, but when we first see Will Smith you can see the World Trade Center in the background which had been destroyed ten months before. [The film was made before the 9/11 attacks, and the towers were left in as a sign of respect - still a mistake, but there's the reason.] (00:03:25 - 00:06:45)
Super Grover
7th Jan 2004
Men in Black II (2002)
Correction: To add to the other correction about the "XYZ" buildings, there's another visual point of reference to their location in the City. When Will is thrown into the air and lands on the produce, across the street behind him is the 6th Ave entrance to the Comcast building (where Fallon tapes the Tonight Show for example), which is up the block from Radio City Music Hall, at Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan. The World Trade Center complex is (and was) located in Lower Manhattan, by the West Side Highway.
Correction: Not only is that not the WTC, they specifically reshot and edited scenes to remove the twin towers. The exact opposite of your claim that they left them in as a "sign of respect."
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Correction: That isn't the world trade center, Those are the XYZ buildings in New York City, a part of Rockefeller Center.