M3GAN 2.0 (2025)

I’ll be honest but I don't know what made me want to go to the trouble of taking the time and money to go and see a sequel to a film that wasn't really screaming out for another outing but the first made enough money to warrant a sequel which I should applaud for trying to do something different. Normally sequels are the first film remade but with a significantly bigger budget. The ‘plot’ sees a killer robot called Amelia who is after something and M3GAN convinces Gemma to give her a new body to help take on Amelia.

Gemma and her Scooby gang work quite well in this film but the film’s biggest fault is that Christian is so clearly the villain even though he is introduced as Gemma’s love interest. It was a plot twist so obvious that it just made me roll my eyes and it wouldn't have been so bad had the actor been…..well better. Aristotle Athari is probably a good actor but he just never pulled off being a villain and when his true colours are shown it wasn't very convincing. 

The film does have some good aspects. I think that M3GAN is a good character and Jenna Davis’ voice is perfect for the character and Violet McGraw and Allison Williams work well together as Aunt and Niece. Ivanna Sakhno is good as Amelia although she loses a bit of menace towards the end. 

The problem ultimately is that it's just not very interesting. I liked the first one because it had a simple idea done quite well. This film feels like it has to throw everything at the wall to see what would stick. As a result I didn't really care about what was happening and didn't care about who was in peril. The fight scenes are good enough but the story centres around AI and I think that there are so many films and TV shows that deal with this stuff better that I thought that it was on par with another Blumhouse film ‘Afraid’. It thinks that AI is some exciting new concept when in fact it’s been around for decades and has become a bit cliched. The film should have stuck to it a simple idea like M3GAN has managed to come back and exact revenge on Gemma. 

As you can guess I don't think that M3GAN 2.0 is a very good film. My expectations were low and they were just about met. I think that going off the way that cinema is nowadays, there will be a M3GAN 3.0 and 4.0 and if they went back to basics then I think I would be prepared to see more. Maybe not at the cinema but definitely more but as a film, M3GAN 2.0 doesn't live up to the first.