More than half a century ago, “2001: A Space Odyssey” was the visionary cinematographic manifesto of artificial intelligence, with HAL 9000 as an avatar in voice of the death of the computer technology of the future. What was not so clear at the time is that “2001” would anticipate the theme of 100 thrillers of artificial intelligence (most of them have not even been made yet, but you are waiting). The theme being: AI is there, and he wants to kill you.
“M3gan 2.0” inflates this theme in a heavy and simpler science fiction action thriller than the science fiction thriller “at hand. The quality of the borderline camp of “M3gan” has not completely disappeared, because the new film is structured as a duel between two androids sufficiently photogenic to be fashionable models. But he plays him with fewer players.
The title of title of “M3gan” has been resurrected, but she is now a nonronic heroine who is also more a chatter than ever. And there is a new fembot terminator, named Amelia (it means Android of logistics and infiltration of autonomous military engagement-but why is there not any 3 On his behalf, damn it?), Which is presented, in the opening sequence, as a quality American military experience that has become a thug. Amelia was spurred out of the coding of M3gan, so the two have a lot in common. But M3gan, reconstituted after being destroyed, always has vestiges of a sense of humor. Amelia is a paramilitary moustte strictly of business.
If you leave aside the entitled network plan Doing – always tends to fall into one of the two categories. There is the suite which is reproducing the attraction of the original film. And then there is the genre that seriously wants to go up, in the spirit of “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”. The very title of “M3gan 2.0” tells you that it is this last variety. The irony being that “M3gan”, a sleeper struck in early 2024, was only a haunting disposable who landed.
“M3gan 2.0” is simply not as much amusing Like the first film. Gerard Johnstone, who returns as a director (now writing the script also), certainly knows what he does, but he allows a large part of what the public has dug the original film to fall on the edge of the road – his madness kitsch slasher kitsch intelligent / stupido. No more crochet of the main character as a demon-Doll fan who becomes an assassin of substitution of an 8-year-old child. M3gan, in the first film, was a satirical extension of the devices we use to prevent our children from getting bored, but she turned into a robot elf who knew how to use a nail gun: a fusion of Hal, a missing sister and chucky.
When the first film was ahead of the curve, “M3gan 2.0” was made at the heart of the IA explosion and is too aware of it. The new film is larger, longer, more “ambitious” and programmed to be an important comment on AI. Allison Williams, with his unhappy rationality, is back as Gemma, the creator of M3gan, and the character suffered a kind of penance. She participated in an apology for talk show, she wrote a book entitled “Modern Modification” (in the careful ways that we should use technological toys for children), and she joined a company called the Center for Safe Technology, all about the limitation of the use of AI.
But after all this guilty clothing – too much, I would say – she learns that M3gan’s body may have been destroyed, but the program that gave her life is still at stake. Amelia, who seems to have come out of her Programming to take up your own malicious life is now a threat to world peace. So Gemma, held in a laboratory bunker by M3gan (who therefore wants to return to life!), Accepts to reconstruct M3gan to fight against the most dangerous threat.
At the beginning, Gemma Implants of the M3gan program in a sawn generic Android that M3gan derisively calls a telebby. But the M3gan that we know and that we love is soon back with an upgrade, seeming more animatronically recover than ever. She was again played by Amie Donald (Face merged with FX) and by Jenna Davis, who provides that voice of Snarky Spun sugar. And she always has a cervical boost, even if she now speaks so much that she is indeed as human as anyone on the screen.
M3GAN, with its big glassy eyes and synthetic skin, still looks 60% real, but Amelia, although more than one fatal suicide bomber, looks around 95% human. Seeding with a technological convention in a golden lamé dress, blond hair overflowing on her shoulders, it is a glamorous weapon played by Ivanna Sakhno, of Ukrainian origin, which looks like Rupaul Crossed with Bibi Andersson. When Alton Appleton (JEMAIN Clement), a Dofus shower of a technological gas -car -style that lives at the cutting edge of brain technology (he no longer needs a computer; he … sees everything), attracts his back from Playboy, we can see why, but he is domestic.
Alton seems pretty mean, but there is another more sinister technology brother at hand, who is in control of the film plot. This has to do with an old household robots from the 80s, which has just become treacherous in … sitting in a safe. (Computers, it seems, are good to teach them to destroy.) There is a symbolic human story, everything about the way Gemme bought itself and also, of course, on the fate of CADY (Violet MCGRAW), which was M3gan’s best friend in the first film. She is now 12 years old, and still the M3GAN is scheduled to protect, but she spends a lot of time on the sidelines.
“M3gan 2.0” does he like a deadly film heresy by taking the Android disaster title from the first film and raising it to a sympathetic heroine status? A little, but not really. She only did what she was scheduled to do at the time anyway. And when M3gan infiltrates this technological convention disguised in the trail animates with an Asian android, its charisma is full of display. The limitation of “M3GAN 2.0” is that it is a competent but heavy sureties of the M3GAN concept. There are a handful of moments you want – like M3gan literally dancing the robot on stage, or a culminating fight that turns on the cult of Steven Seagal, or M3gan soothing Gemma while singing “This Woman’s Work” of Kate Bush. But that may not be enough. “M3GAN 2.0” is fun at times, too completed to others. Hoping that “M3gan 3.0” is more broken, more funk, crazier.
