The machine continues to operate at full speed with its horrific or similar productions designed for cheap for maximum profit. A method that made the studio inevitable in the genre with several films per year, deductibles and derivatives in the shovel like Conjuring and its mass of offspring. In 2022, M3gan (or Megan) harvested about 180 million green tickets. A flop to any blockbuster, but a hell of a return on investment for a footage that only cost About $ 12 million. It was therefore obvious that we would have a M3GAN 2.0.
Was a time when the best consequences that the original counted on the fingers of one hand and were the subject of a dialogue in Scream 2. Although this has not become a standard, however, it can be seen without bad faith that this observation no longer takes place and that the second opus more qualitative than their model are now legion. Nothing but recently, we shared our pleasant surprise in front of the superior, Mr Wolff 2 On the video bonus. All that to say that if we had found M3gan sympathetically passable, the side barred of the trailer of this Megan 2 was very enticing and pushed us into a dark room, we admit it.
Two years after M3gan, an AI perfected in the body of a robotic doll, tried to kill Gemma, its creator, and his Cady niece, a new android was created for military purposes, Am3lia. But it escapes human controls and begins to eliminate one by one the people behind its design. When revealed that Am3lia has M3gan’s source code, Gemma understands that Cady and she could be the next on the list. Their only means of survival and perhaps saving humanity is to restart M3gan and to offer it a new body, stronger, faster, hoping that it decides to store on their side.
Deviated judgment
If the budget of this opus has not yet been formalized, it is certain that the team was also entitled to a financial update allowing it much more extravagance. Nineteen additional minutes, more protagonists, more action sequences, various places, a house of higher standing and two robots … we obviously do not reach not the richness of a blockbusterhowever, we appreciate that this suite takes advantage of the success of its elder to revise its ambition upwards. Whether visually or scriptwriting.
A bit like Mr Wolff 2Gerard Johnstone and Akela Cooper reinforce, respectively to the realization and the scenario, to register as much in the continuity of the first opus as to reinvent themselves. The characters installed return, each having digested the lessons of the first part, to go in a completely different direction. If M3gan played the codes of the poor cinema of the poor, this 2.0 abandons these inclinations to turn towards unbridled action. What, perhaps, cut yourself off from part of your fans who came look for the thrill And which will only have one or two small scenes to put in the tooth.
An assumed bias that recalls another franchise, that of a certain James Cameron. It is impossible to look Megan 2 without thinking Terminator 2except not to have seen the latter. The scenario is not an exact copy and paste, but each narrative idea, each twist, openly borrows from the master. A lack of inspiration from Cooper?
In truth, we especially have the feeling that the scriptwriter and the director wanted to have fun, and that even if it means suffering the criticisms bringing the original closer to this TEMU version, as much to display his reference proudly. When we want to make a follow -up based on a fight between two AI, one wanting to eliminate a woman and her child, with cool replicas and by abandoning horror for action, as much to be inspired by the best film of all time (the author of these lines having established a purely subjective classification). And if, icing on the cake, we we slip K2000’s music at the turn of a car sequence, we feel forced to judge M3GAN 2.0 much higher than the first. This is the rule.
A series of 1… and 0
More fun, more generous, more rhythmic, this M3GAN 2.0 is a succession of superlatives around its concept while trying to deliver a message questioning our relationship to AI and our technological consumption. Nevertheless, this remains a Blumhouse production with its qualities like its faults, including a lack of balance of tone. Fun When he dares to let go, the film brakes a little too often to try to stay in the nails of coherence and a very first degree moral. Paradoxically, the feature film lack of a suspicion of carelessness, of lightnessof this nonchalance which would say “We don’t care, we’re going there!”.
We alternate between scenes that push the cursors, assume their stupidity and humor, and others where we ostensibly yawn by remembering that the film is two hours and that there is still too much waste that is not justified, including in jokes. The character of Cole (Brian Jordan Alvarez) is symptomatic of this fantasy which does not always pass, being predominantly unbearable in the role of the more pitiful and heavy service that really amusing.
It is the backlash of this excess of generosity and ambition. Not all ideas are well exploited, the digital effects are particularly uneven and it is a shame that the film refuses to be more violent, using all the stratagems to avoid showing its most gore aspects. A shyness that remains the major problem of the saga.
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We come out more amused than with the first opus, but with this feeling that Megan has not yet embraced all its delusional potential. It is nevertheless hoped that the franchise will continue and push its efforts in the right direction. If we can have Machine uprising without having Terminator 3we take.
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