Review: M3GAN 2.0 (2025)
It's M3$$Y.
When the first M3GAN film was released 29 months ago, the threat of artificial intelligence was largely one still silly enough for the movies to solve. Funny robot turns into killer robot — it’s not exactly prestige cinema, but after a viral marketing campaign and an unbelievable box office return, it earned a sequel. M3GAN 2.0, hitting theaters this week, is now meeting us in a world where AI is unavoidable, ethically ambiguous at best, and unpredictable enough that the social commentary writes itself.
Unfortunately, this latest M3GAN entry, directed again by Gerard Johnstone, is uninterested in anything to do with the reality we live in. AI has taken over your favorite apps if it hasn’t taken your job yet, it’s become the topic of debate on talk shows if it’s not the issue on the other side of the picket line outside the studio. This is the real world now. M3GAN 2.0 is stuck in movie world.