'M3GAN' review: You'll love the mean-girl robot in this darkly funny, cautionary tale
Quick story line
A brilliant toy company roboticist uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN, a life-like doll programmed to emotionally bond with her newly orphaned niece. But when the doll’s programming works too well, she becomes overprotective of her new friend with terrifying results.
M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a lifelike doll that’s programmed to be a child’s greatest companion and a parent’s greatest ally. Designed by Gemma, a brilliant roboticist, M3GAN can listen, watch and learn as it plays the role of friend and teacher, playmate and protector. When Gemma becomes the unexpected caretaker of her 8-year-old niece, she decides to give the girl an M3GAN prototype, a decision that leads to unimaginable consequences.
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Megan is directed by Gerard Johnstone who made housebound a movie I love that nobody talks about that is so good and I wondered why it took him so long to make another movie I don't have an answer for that but I'm really glad to see him helming another movie that I got to see in the theaters when Gemma suddenly becomes the caretaker of her orphaned eight-year-old niece gemma's unsure and unprepared to be a parent under intense pressure at work she decides to pair her Megan prototype with Katie in an attempt to resolve both problems a decision that will have unimaginable consequences there are a ton of movies about AI That's run amok or a child's toy that turns out to be evil like Chucky or Annabelle this isn't exactly anything new and when you pair that with the fact that it's being released during the first weekend in January which is historically where Hollywood Studios dump their garbage that they want everyone to forget about this film has an uphill battle but it's also blessed with being a really good surprise because nobody expects the killer AI doll movie that comes out the first weekend of January to be any good and it is right from the opening scene which is a very funny kids toy commercial the movie lets you know you're going to be in for some laughs and if you've seen the trailers you know that inevitably Megan is going to do some very bad things and sometimes in a very funny way like dancing in a hallway which has become really popular but what works about the movie so well and I think what surprised me so much about it is the exploration of death and mortality from the eyes of a small girl who is faced immediately with that when her parents are killed and then is taught that by an evil robotic doll but also the exploration of how children can become so attached to an electronic item that they lose touch with reality and I think this movie has a lot more to say about those things than I expected it to from the trailers the Blum House name and the look of the marketing seems to suggest that this is going to be like a Chucky movie or an Annabelle movie except a lttle different and I guess you could say that if you didn't pay attention to the movie at all but there's a lot of stuff going on under the surface that Akila Cooper's very good screenplay explores especially in the dynamic between Alison Williams character and the young girl in that she's not prepared to be a mother she doesn't know how to be a mother she doesn't have a home that's ready for it there are Collectibles everywhere there's dangerous items everywhere and she has a very busy career and so the film actually took a considerable amount of time to set up its characters in a believable way and also have a killer AI doll which had to talk about Megan herself of course I'm not exactly sure how they did it I know that some actors were puppeteers I don't know how much of that was handled by Prosthetics and CGI because it is very seamless the creation of Megan as a character is really impressive which is to say that the film looks more expensive than I think it was I think Gerard Johnstone did a very very good job directing this movie and it is also pretty funny especially in the way it explores the corporate world of marketing toys to Children there's a little bit more of that than I expected maybe just a little bit too much of the corporate side of things but it's kind of needed to understand the pressure that Allison Williams has at her job and how that affects her home life now that it's completely in turmoil look as far as January movies and first movies of the Year this is easily one of the better ones that I can member over the past 13 years that I've been making videos on this channel and I also really like the fact that it is a horror comedy because those don't really get made that much anymore with Renfield coming out I'm really hoping that that starts to change it's been very difficult to try to pitch horror comedies or get them made because people don't know exactly what comedies are anymore and people want to be serious they don't know if it's profitable or if it should just go straight to streaming so I'm glad that this movie is in theaters and will probably do fairly well financially based on the amount of people
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