• How did a giant fish return to life after Will Smith had ripped out its heart?
• Where did the trash can disappear to?
• Magically appearing red napkin!
• Headphones that move about a store counter!

Of course some errors can be forgiven:

When J is bowling the alien’s head at Cosmic Lanes, three Pinball machines are visible to the right of screen. Pinball was banned in New York City between 1940 and 1976. The movie takes place in New York City of 1969 so no Pinball machines should be visible.

The Griffin character is a human (or perhaps an alien?) who has an incredible skill – he knows what will happen in the future. The stars of MIB3 eventually recognise this and use it to their advantage. But could this Griffin character just be a vessel for God himself?

I wonder how many other movie characters this could apply to? I guess anyone with a supernatural ability could be God in disguise…

Over at Mysterious Universe is the history of the real Men in Black – and disappearing cars. Information provided includes:

• In the USA they originally drove 1950s-style black Cadillacs, while over in England their mode of transport was 1960s-era black Jaguars
• The cars typically look brand new, regardless of age
• These cars can suddenly disappear, suggesting they might be UFOs

Runner-up in the longevity stakes for 2012 is Ice Age 4.

“a young man who reluctantly becomes a member of an elite secret order charged with protecting humanity from the beasts of folklore who invade our world.”

So, expect the story of Grimm, but as light as TV’s Beauty and the Beast (with Ron Perlman). It will need guns – lots of guns – to have any chance of success.

My prediction: Sonnenfeld will pass, a lesser-known director will take it on, and because Ashley Wood is an executive producer, it will be dark and interesting, perhaps similar to Sin City or Dark City.

Pitbull’s new album is called Global Warming and will be released on November 18. Of course it contains the theme song from MIB3, Back In Time. Plus a track with Shakira, and Get It Stared

His new single, Don’t Stop The Party featuring TJR, will be on the radio next week – and then he’ll be one of the latest celebrities to appear on Dancing With The Stars .

Someone else did say that they were “slightly touched”.

On another forum, someone said:

I cried at the end of Men in Black 3. The last move that did that to me, the only other one that made me cry as an adult, was Marley and me.

Did you cry?

(I didn’t…)

Josh Brolin has been cast to play the lead role of the remake. While I fully expect his acting will be excellent (expect an Oscar nod), I can’t see him doing the fighting – he just doesn’t look flexible enough…

Take “Ice Age: Continental Drift.” The animated sequel debuted in North America to mediocre reviews and has so far racked up a decent $143.7 million domestically. But abroad it’s been a different picture entirely. The fourth film in Twentieth Century Fox’s Pleistocene era franchise has drawn a massive $620.5 million at the foreign box office, making it ones of the year’s biggest, albeit unheralded, hits.

Likewise Men In Black 3. Nobody feels that it is better than the original.

“Men in Black 3″ and “The Amazing Spider-Man,” for instance, were outperformed domestically by their predecessors, earning $176.6 million and $255.5 million respectively. Yet overseas audiences seemed to find the films fresher, propelling the latest “Men in Black” to $445.3 million at the foreign box office and helping to justify more “Spider-Man” sequels by pushing the latest wall-crawler film to $435.1 million at the foreign box office.

One reason offered is that in countries like India they have only recently been able to enjoy the complete cinema experience – in the past they tended to watch videos and DVDs.

We’re very pleased with the financial performance of Men in Black 3, and we believe it is an ongoing franchise. We’re going to do [another one], but we don’t have clarity yet on how it should be done.

The real difficulty is the time-travel aspect. For Josh Brolin to be in Men in Black 4, he would need to travel to the present or future. The future might be too hard to create and make fun. The present would be boring without a killer story. What about the deep past? Back to when the agency came to be, when the first aliens were spotted on Earth? Perhaps the Prohibition Era?

But there would also need a strong reason for the time travel, and a conundrum. Taking Will back to slave days would be too serious, and too similar to the Wild Wild West disaster. Messing with the future doesn’t really have conundrums…

I vote for a modern day setting, in a foreign land. There are plenty of places where being smartly dressed can be cool – London, Italy, Japan for examples. For the time travel, something tragic happens in the present, and the duo (no Tommy Lee Jones) need to go back in time just one year to prevent it from happening.

But they find they have rewound to a different timeline, a la Fringe, and instead of being secret agents they are recognizable super heroes… Sorry, my writer’s hat is now off again.