This imaginative summer comedy from director Barry Sonnenfeld Get Shorty is a lot of fun, largely on the strength of Will Smith's engaging performance as the rookie partner of a secret agent Tommy Lee Jones assigned to keep tabs on Earth-dwelling extraterrestrials. There's lots of comedy to spare in this bright film, some of the funniest stuff found in the margins of the major action. A scene with Smith's character being trounced in the distance by a huge alien while Jones questions a witness is a riot. The inventiveness never lets up, and the cast--including Vincent D'Onofrio doing frighteningly convincing work as an alien occupying a decaying human--hold up their end splendidly. --Tom Keogh