Is cinema’m3gan 2.0 ‘exactly 0.0% assisted the horror doll is now an action heroine? Fighting the guys of technology with kung fu? What is happening here?

Horror movie sequels usually follow a repetitive cycle: you loved it when Michael Myers/Jason Voorhees/Freddy Krueger/Ghostface/Chucky did such a thing. Now here he is doing it again. For the second time. Or third. Or tenth. Occasionally, the creators become ambitious and/or ridiculous – like, let’s make a crossover! Or send one of them to space! “But usually the idea is to deliver something similar to what made the fans scared, get excited, etc., the first time.” Add some Roman numerals and keep everything the same until the inevitable metalinguistic reboot. Only masks change from time to time.

For your credit, the people behind M3gan 2.0 did not follow the traditional plan of Part II. They could have chosen the easy way, simply bringing back the psychotic doll of the success of 2022 and making it repeat scenes just to please the fans. A little stab wounds here, some pounds for ironic jokes there, some reruns of the now iconic dance. Instead, they opted for an unique – unexpected but still familiar sequence. THE Android model 3 Generativewith taste for chaos, came back. But now she is… an action heroine.

Yes, despite having taken a screwdriver right in the “brain” at the end of the previous movie, the robot is back – kicking ass, jumping with cliffs with wingsuit and getting into various mischief in style Mission: Impossible for the Silicon Valley. Conceptually, you can see how this change may seem interesting. In practice? There is patience. Transform it from potential slasher icon into something like “M3gan Bond”It must have like an evolution. The result is more for Microsoft Bob of terror sequels. The model is 2.0. The movie – exaggerated, without impact and narratively restless – is 0.0% assistable.

In short: there is a new doll in the area. Summary stretched in a painful and dragged way: M3gan Original, now only a floating awareness that appears on smart devices to release passive-anti comments, needs to be transferred to a larger, faster, better-and that fights Kung Fu-to face its successor. Gemma (Allison Williams), its creator, now has become an important anti-anti-activistIa. Cady (Violet McGraw), the young woman who owned the M3ganit remains traumatized by the outbreak of the ladder, but now you know Aikido. Somehow, the project of Gemma He ended up in the hands of the military, who used it to create armed droids. The prototype, called Amelie (Ivanna Sakhno), was loaned to Saudi intelligence for a mission. It doesn’t work. Amelie It ignores its primary directive and begins to follow its true mission: to carry in the cloud and dominate all online networks in the name of world domination, blah blah blah.

There are agents of the FBI Babacas, generic henchmen with forced accents, a “bro” of technology with false humility (Aristotle Athari) and a technology billionaire (Jemaine Clement) which is a mixture of several horrible real -life bigwives, but it could well be called MELON TUSK. And speaking of names: Congratulations to the writer-director Gerard Johnstone for putting one Macguffin in a fictional 1980s company that started by making photocopiers and then became a reference in technology, and calling it Xenox. We have no idea which real company he wanted to refer. (But, that, the visual tribute to Metropolis in one of the twelve climax of the movie is very cool.)

You will also see Williams alternating between expressions of concern and expressions of great concern; so many plot twists and narrative twists that it may be better to start writing a chart as things advance; and boredom. Two assistants, lived by JEN VAN EPPS and Brian JordanAlvarezthey work as angel and devil on the shoulders of Gemmabut end up looking like characters that were not finished in time because the deadline was tight. Several “tchekhov revolvers” – a neurochip, an exoskeleton, something that can turn off rebellious robots before they loosen too much poison – are placed on the shelf with neon arrows pointing to them.

What M3gan 2.0 No delivery are scares, phrases of effect worthy of GIF or any trace of fun. Out the anti-heroin doing, out of nowhere, a version of “This Woman’s Work”, Kate BushThere is little (or none) trait of what made the original movie a delight for fans of the genre and, at the same time, a kitsch and self -conscious product, perfect for meme. We would have preferred to see a fictional continuation within the original intellectual property than this poor copy of an action movie.

It’s as if the people behind the first movie thought that what really mattered was the doll – and that she was so beloved that she could be thrown into any story that the audience would enjoy the same way. Poorly made copies may even exhaust a franchise. But those who forget or ignore what made everything work in the beginning can kill it. Suddenly a generic repetition of version 1.0 doesn’t even look like such a bad idea.

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