Dallas Fisher

The bitch is back, but maybe she should have stayed dead. 

A self aware sequel to the 2023 “hit” that attempts to bring us to the likes of T2 but fails by making things overly complicated. This franchise has a campiness that tends to work best when it follows the Evil Dead route, but instead we added almost a full other movie within itself. 

I’ll start out with the things I loved, or at least enjoyed. Allison Williams is so likeable that it’s easy to look past the fact she’s kind of stale and not given a lot to do in the original or the first half of this movie. The action is pretty well done but would have benifited from a rated-R bump. The movie made me laugh, well Jemaine Clement did. Also, Megan as a character is so sassy that I couldn’t help but be entertained. And, that’s about it. 

Why did they remove the horror aspect from this completely?? I get leaning into the comedy a little more, but this removes it so much that you forget what this was originally about (besides the fact they mention the plot of the first quite a few times). If you want to be a cross genre, that’s fine, but you can’t poorly execute half a dozen of them and expect it to fully work. 

If you looked up the word panic in the dictionary, I think you’d find 80% of this movie playing on a loop. It’s mainly the characters planning and talking about what they’re going to do, and by the time we get to see those things play out, I don’t care anymore. There’s seriously so much talking to the point where it feels like most characters are trying so hard to be someone else. The family melodrama aspects couldn’t have been less interesting or important to the story. 

As far as pacing goes, 2.0 almost makes a full arc that ends in a climatic setting. That setting is sadly only half way into the film. To no one’s surprise, there’s misdirectics that were there for the sake of having them and added no real stakes to the story. If the first half wasn’t spent in brash situations, we could have had time to focus on a little more of Megan and Co.

M3GAN 2.0 feels unoriginal while also trying so much that it felt lost. You’ll have the smallest amount of fun if you buy in, but for me I couldn’t get past the message of the movie putting itself down. 

2.6/10