M3GAN

M3GAN 2.0Year: 2025Rating: PG-13Length: 120 minutes / 2.00 hours Plenty of horror movies have shifted into different genres for their sequel. Some like Aliens (1986) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) moved into more action-oriented directions. In fact, Terminator 2 had such an amazing twist with making the first movie's antagonist into a protagonist that we still see its influence today in the sequel to the horror movie M3GAN (2023). By lessening some of the horror elements and leaning into more of the goofy comedy, M3GAN 2.0 (2025) was more fun than the original, but not terribly unique for an action film. As with most technologies, it wasn't long before the military sought to capitalize on transforming an AI companion android into a deadly assassin. Abandoning the Child's Play (1988) feel of the original M3GAN film, we find the snarky main character now aligned with the humans to take down this theft of their intellectual property. There are plenty of amusing bits...

M3GAN Year: 2023 Rating: PG-13 Length: 102 minutes / 1.70 hours I'm not usually one to watch "horror" films, so I was going to pass on M3GAN (2023) until a friend requested to see it together. By genre standards, this PG-13 cross between Child's Play (1988) and The Terminator (1984) was light on blood and gore that could have bumped it up to an R rating if they showed more of it. Perhaps this was intentional to emphasize the horrors of Artificial Intelligence (AI) overall. Because we all know unchecked machine learning algorithms will always lean toward some kind of murder. I think if you go into this movie understanding that it'll be goofy, then you can munch on your popcorn as it hits all the standard tropes. It's not quite funny enough to be part comedy, but there are some chuckle-worthy scenes sprinkled throughout. From a sci-fi perspective, though, any robotics or AI rules that you'd usually see in these scenarios were mysteriously absent....

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MOVIE: M3GAN 2.0 (2025)

MOVIE: M3GAN (2023)