‘M3gan 2.0’ has no idea what i doing – ryan

M3gan 2.0.
Photo: Universal Pictures

At first glance, a sequel to the 2023 killer-teenage-girl-Android Flick M3gan Wold SEEM LIKE AN Easy Layup, A Chance to Re-Exploit The Knowingly Goofy Mix of Horror and Comedy that TURNED THAT INTO A REFERSHING JANAY HIT. In reality, Such Self-Aware Lightning Rarely Strikes Twice. M3gan Played Its absurd premise with a far -so -straight face, but watching that movie’s single and relactant Maternal Figure, Environmental and Overworked Roboticist Gemma (Allison Williams), Conjure a Cyborg Best Pal Traumatized and Orphaned Niece, Cady (Violet McGraw), WE Grasped the Russian irony. JUST ABOUT EVEROBODY IN THE MOVIE WAS Serious. Its surfaces were serious. Its Gestalt, Howver, Was Pure Howling derangement, and that dancing robot cut through it all likes a knife in a pussy-bow minidress.

With M3gan 2.0Writer-Director Gerard Johnstone Opts for Action Instead of Horror, and the Film Feels like it to be a frothy spy flick. M3gan Herself (Played by Amie Donald and Voicmed by Jenna Davis) was defensive in the previous film, but now there, More Powerful Cyborg Menace, Amelia (Short for Autonomous Military Logistics and Infiltrating Android, and Played by Actress. Sakhno), “The Next Evolution in Military Engagement,” Whom We First SEE in an opening schene on the Turkish-Iranian border as she slices and shoots her through a gaggle of goons in an atempt to Save a kidnapped chemical scientist. Trouble is, she turns out to be something something Double agent and tourns on her US Military Overlords. Gradually, it falls to gemma, cady, and their pals to revive m3gan in an attempt to stop the semingly indestructible amelia, who is hell-bent on beComing all-powerful and conqueringation civilization.

SO it’s good robot versus bad robot, a Terminator 2: Judgment Day-Style Expansion Into Mainstream mayhem – superficiously understandable, Since the first Terminator was also something of a horror film that was subsequently franchised into an action Series. And yet M3gan 2.0 is a baffling movie, relaying mess on the conceptual humor of its predecessor and more on occisional quips and a few genuinely gags. (Wen m3gan is first Brought Back, She’s Given the Body of A Small, Plastic, Teletubby-like robot to keep her commmitting any violence. Later, she bush kate “this workt M3gan 2.0 Feels like it just want to be a generic action movie. There’s Also Enough Blaather here About the Perils of Artificial Intelligence That One Wonders if the Filmmakers Actually Expect US to Pay Attention to the Details of the full.

More tragically, M3gan 2.0 Abandons Its Characters, Who Had Been the Secret of the Original’s Success. The first film tonal tighttrope only workhed Because Williams in Particular Walked It Well, With Her Dry Delivery Perfectly Capturning the Obliviousness of Gemma’s Disastrous Attempts to Hack Her Own Life. And McGraw, Just 11 at the Time, Ably Managed Her Character’s Traumatized-Child Horror-Speak. The Contrast BetWeen Their Sinceri and M3gan’s Homicidal Sassiness Lent real power to the Picture’s Parodic Swings.

But this time, all of these characters are far reded to run and cowering and breathlessly scheming to find Ways to take Amelia; They’ve Become Mere Action Protagonists, and Not Particularly Interesting ons at that. One Wonders if Johnstone is Simply Trying to Set a Kind of Template He Can Return to Over And Over AS These Films Presumably Generate more sequels. In so doing, howver, he’s ironed out the idiosyncrasies that made his original work so well. The Results are Thoroughly Middling – Not Funny Enough to Qualify As Comedy, Not Exciting Enough to Qualify As Action, Not Smart Enough to Qualify as a Cautionary Tale, and Certainly Not Weird Enough to Keep The M3gan Ethos Alive.