M3gan 2.0 is a fun upgrade that’s a little too self-aware

Universal and Blumhouse's archetypal M3gan feature came retired of obscurity with a premise truthful ridiculous and campy that it was hard not to beryllium astatine slightest a small intrigued. Equal parts Child's Play and Small Wonder, M3gan was undeniably silly with its communicative astir an AI-powered doll who sang Sia's "Titanium" and danced astir arsenic she chopped people's heads off. But the movie struck a near-perfect equilibrium betwixt consecutive fearfulness and drama that made it a delight to spot successful a crowded theater.

M3gan also killed astatine the container office, to the tune of $180 cardinal against a humble $12 cardinal budget. That made it each excessively casual for Universal to greenlight and fast-track a bigger, much costly sequel, but it was unclear where, exactly, the caller franchise mightiness spell next. There's a pointed cleverness to the mode returning manager Gerard Johnstone and writer Akela Cooper germinate their murderous doll's communicative with M3gan 2.0. And you tin spot successful the film's action-forward sci-fi crook however overmuch much wealth was enactment into its production.

Like galore fearfulness sequels, though, M3gan 2.0 has a pugnacious clip surviving up to its predecessor arsenic it brings backmost the archetypal formed to instrumentality connected a fewer caller AI threats. It's by nary means a terribl …

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