When Blumhouse and Universal unleashed “M3Gan” into the world in 2022, no one would have predicted the feeling she would become. Well, no one straight,In other words. The queer audience saw the murder doll sings of the “titanium” and said “mother.” Her stellar box office performance gave way to the inevitable sequel, and the house Blum built doubled. Three times Catering to M3GAN’s biggest fan base, down to the release of the sequel. An army of M3GAN dancers appeared for the West Hollywood Pride Parade in early June, with the trailer using Britney Spears’ “Oops!… I did it again” as a needle drop, and they disguised Stellskture and boasted the fab “M3GAN 2.0”.
However, in an attempt to regain lightning bolts in the bottle of the first film, he fully turned on “T2: Judgement Day” by upgrading M3GAN to the heroes he needs to save the day to confront autonomous military engagement logistics and permeate androids. Direct video sci-fi action programmer. As a sequel to “M3GAN”…I’m not sure if that works or not. As a film deeply inspired by an insane action thriller from the early 90s that played ad nausea on the USA network during weekday afternoons? It shakes, but its dedication to style definitely rubs people the wrong way. But I couldn’t become me!
Where “M3GAN” fell into an unintended camping world, M3GAN 2.0″ lives in the bad straight camping world. The logic of the movie? It’s suspicious at best. performance? A vehicle for dialogue that exists only to explain the plot loudly. Did the moment meant to inspire snaps and “Yaaas Queens” from the audience? So ham fisting and they could bake honey. Those who want a true form of horror sequel will certainly be disappointed, but there is plenty of fun to enjoy with M3GAN’s messy mayhem.
M3GAN2.0 is a straight camp, better or worse
Set two years after the artificially intelligent companion robot M3GAN (Amie Donald, Voice by Jenna Davis), he became Rogue and tried to destroy anyone who threatened his relationship with Cady’s aunt Gemma (Allison Williams), including Cady’s aunt Gemma (Allison Williams), who also included the brilliant inventor who created the M3GAN. Known as Amelia, it is used as the ultimate killer intrusive spy. Unfortunately, Amelia’s AI has progressed faster than anyone imagined, with Jemma, Keddy, M3 Gun and Gemma’s business partners Tess (Genvan Epps) and Cole (Brian Jordan Alvarez) stopping Amelia before they take over the world.
Where the villains in “M3GAN” were nominal characters, “M3GAN 2.0” is a cluster of Technobble and misdirected villains. Should I fear Amelia? Should we fear an incompetent government? Should we fear Gemma’s new, overstated, anti-ai expert boyfriend Christian? Should we fear a hilarious skivi tech billionaire with Alton Appleton (Jemaine Clement)? Should we fear ourselves? It’s a massive spoiler, so should we be afraid of the additional subplots I haven’t mentioned? The film sounds like a halfway-by-headed sentence, with it trying to say everything about technology, war, capitalism and traumatic bonds with robots. But by not making anything Choices™the sequel mismatches our own relationship with AI. It moves too quickly and feels impossible to fully feel the weight of all the new information. Throwing so many ideas on the screen, even if the story is not calculated (doesn’t the power to somehow build a new body, such as how hidden M3GAN designs an underground bunker complete with home decorations and framed portraits?), you’ll be mostly annoying and carefree.
Blue Sluggles’s Notes on campinghe acknowledged that the disruptive, essentially countercultural artistic expression known as “camps” has been approved, fetishized and commercialized by the mainstream. The exaggeration of the spirit of luxury and theatre, the aesthetic, fmore, and sensory exaggeration is still very obvious, but the concept of saving pours water on the masses. Known as “Bad Straight Camp,” these films boast the artistry of a deliberately crafted camp that can soothe a general audience. Films like “Twilight,” The Filmography of Baz Luhrmann, and action films starring people like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Steven Seagal all reside in the same movie culmination as “M3GAN 2.0.” It’s intentionally extravagant, visually maximum, and emotionally shallow, but that’s a kind of point too. Whether it’s a brilliant satire or a hot mess, it completely depends on your motherboard-repentant action-packed nonsense, genre whiplash, and your tolerance for the AI Queen.
The more M3GAN 2.0 doesn’t work, the more it works… somehow?
The original “m3gan” didn’t feel it was designed for viral – it’s just It was Viral. But “M3GAN 2.0?” she knows she is being seen. Kady’s school locker, including a poster by Stephen Segal, M3GAN dances like a robot for a worshiping crowd.Honestly, Slay), and her squirting lines like “grab your vagina” all feel like they’re included specifically for an account named @Cinephilememeslayer69 to appear in the photo dump over the weekend. Just as interesting as those moments, they feel obligated. The first film camp felt spontaneous, as if it had tripped and landed on a meme template, and I feel the chaos of this sequel is more calculated. It’s not necessarily a bad way, but you can feel the fingers of the studio on the pulse. And, strangely enough, it’s obvious try out I just loved the film more, like when my mother sent me pictures from her local Pride Parade, “I’m with your people!”
Still, if it has a deadline: Writer Director Gerald Johnston hasn’t given up on saying something About the dangers of AI, and the film’s political tales, have evolved to reflect the way real life speeds up its way towards the robot uprising of AI girlfriends. Ivanna Sakhno plays Amelia with ice perfection and wants to get more screen time with her character. But instead of having her cook, the film is caught flaunting its own Bonkar logic. Despite all my teacher complaints, I still found a hell of joy that has re-introduced into this world, giving myself to the story of killer robots, corrupt governments, AI nightmare scenarios, and trope banana pants from 90s action films. While this may not be a risk of turning, there is a really fun hand-to-hand combat sequence between M3GAN and Amelia (and one of the expected battle scenes with Allison Williams), and I won’t complain about it. It was a stupid movie like a hellish movie, swinging seriously for the fence and like other examples of bad straight camp, I still let it eat it all like the little piggy I had run through my brain.
The original “M3GAN” was a drug show. “M3GAN 2.0” is a drag show in which the Straight Bachelorette hijacks the VIP table. But she is a respectful ally and has an unfertile appreciation “on the law,” so she can stay.
/Film Rating: 6.5 out of 10
“M3GAN 2.0” will begin at the theater on June 27th, 2025.
