Written and directed by Gerard Johnstone
Starring Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Ivanna Sakhno and Jemaine Clement
USA, 2025
I went into the first M3GAN movie reluctantly, citing fatigue with killer/spooky kids and weird dances. I went into this second one even more reluctantly, having heard M3GAN turns into a globe-trotting child assassin this time, another thing I could do without in movies.
That’s not exactly accurate: someone steals the M3GAN tech and builds a NEW assassin with the intention of selling it to our government or another government or something. But the NEW assassin goes rogue and AI is going to take over the world, or something. I dunno. For some reason only M3gan can stop it, and she still exists, cuz she uploaded herself into a smart home device during the cliffhanger of the previous movie. Got it?
Whatever. The first half of this movie is ridiculous, though I suppose that is to the movie’s credit, as if it had taken itself seriously it would be even worse. And the second half actually sort of pulls itself together to come up with something of a character arc for M3gan the robot, while allowing her to remain a saucy little so-and-so, which, is also the movie’s credit. So how come it’s still not that good?
I guess how much you like it really depends on how into M3gan herself you are. If you saw the first one and thought M3gan, as a character, was just the funniest most awesome thing you’d ever seen, this is definitely for you. If you liked the first one in spite of M3gan, not so much.
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