Review: M3gan 2.0 is a silly and foolish update that has some funny moments

The first M3gan The movie was fine. It was not a revolutionary horror film, but it had quite strange energy and online appeal to unleash a mini moment of pop culture.

Robot-Bral dance, the Sass with dead eyes, the absurd mixture of horror and technological satire have been combined just enough to entertain the public. So with M3gan 2.0The filmmakers clearly tried to capture the same energy while they were bigger, stronger and heavier.

Think about “” and more terminator 2 … TikTok Edition Killer Doll.

The story resumes two years after M3gan’s original fury. Its creator, Gemma, is now the spokesman for the AI ​​regulation, which tries to cancel the damage caused by the same thing he built. In the meantime, a defense contractor secretly develops its new generation robot named Emilia, built for espionage and combat.

Of course, Emilia becomes self -conscious and goes out of mind. Faced with a growing threat, Gemma takes the most questionable decision imaginable … reports M3gan online and reconstructs her faster, more bad and ready to break down her robotic rival.

The premise is wild and the merit of the film does not avoid. When the robots finally clash, it is as much as you would expect, the destruction in abundance and a lot of trivial jokes. It is pure silly chaos.

But you have to sit a lot to get there. The first half is weighed down with insipid exposure and a surprisingly slow pace. Dialogue often feels rigid and too explanatory, like a seriously trained chatbot that tries to look deep. It is a strange irony that a film Sopra sounds as if it had been written by one.

One of the strangest choices is how the film has made the character Gemma so impossible. He wrote with this frustrating detachment, constantly making wrong decisions and pushing away the same people who should protect.

Instead of creating tension, this adds only a level of annoyance to the scenes that already seem slow. It is difficult to cheer for her when the script continues to double her worst instinct without offering a significant development of characters.

However, when the film leans on his absurdity, he becomes something fun and has a handful of killings that flirt with the cartoon excess. These moments are reminder M3gan 2.0 He knows exactly what kind of movie could be. The problem is that it continues to retire, trying to balance sincerity and satire when it should have fully committed to chaos.

There is a field in his DNA, but the film continues to try to move on to something more elegant and more serious, and that tension never really works.

There is no real touch of direction to raise the material and, despite its attempts to build the world, it all seems rather flat. Runtime also overcomes its welcome. At almost two hours, you start to hear the resistance around the middle point, especially when the scenes repeat the same beats as “to frighten” without bringing something new to the table. A narrower and slender cut would probably have landed closer to the zippy and absurd original fun.

In the end, M3gan 2.0 It is a disordered sequel that offers some funny moments but never finds its pace. It is not frightening enough to be horror, not intelligent enough to be satire and not wild enough to lean completely on the field, but has its moments.

If you are a fan of the first movie and you just want more M3gan By doing morally indisputable things in increasingly ridiculous ways, there is fun here. Go waiting for you a GLUCH GIR.

In addition, the film spent a terrible opening weekend with only 10.2 million at the box office, which means that the first film was yeast in a bottle and the public was not looking for more.