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M3gan was an unexpected success, and for a good reason: it was the best horror movie of killer toy since Child gameCombining comedy and camp with an Android track worthy of a meme. For the rest, the writer / director Gerard Johnstone (working on a story of him and the writer of the first film Akela Cooper), took some notes from Terminator 2. This time, there is an even more evil Android on the stage (Amelia, played by Ivanna Sakhno) which wants the IA to reign the world. And there is only one a little less evil Android that can stop it: M3gan.

If this configuration seems silly and campy for you, well … that is. This is the point. More than the first film, M3GAN 2.0 Leans in the stupidity of his premise and is even more fun for that. Nor is it a horror film this time, it is a full action film with tons of firearm play, from combat to the body Mission: Impossible movie.

Speaking of Mission: ImpossibleIt is difficult not to notice that M3GAN 2.0 practically offers the same AI control plot that muddled The final calculation. The difference here is that it is actually somewhat well informed – M3GAN 2.0 It is not only a question of “criminal”, also explores (even briefly) the concept of autonomy of AI, technological regulations and ethics. (For God Sakes, there is a joke in the 230 killer section that only technology experienced readers would include.)

M3GAN 2.0 Concentrates once again on Gemma (Allison Williams), the engineer who initially created M3gan and his Cady niece (MCGRAW Violet). After the events of the first film, Gemma was briefly sent to prison but reappears as a critic of technology. (Is it not funny how many “technological criticisms” appear after having Big Tech’s bank?) It then associates with a technological ethician (Aristotle Athari) to push governments to stronger technological regulations, especially with regard to AI.

The existence of Amelia seems to prove her point. In the opening of M3GAN 2.0We look while she goes on a secret mission to save a military scientist, only to disobey her programming and kill him instead. It turns out that Amelia was built on the bones of M3gan’s design, and for any reason, it aims to kill all the people involved in its creation. This mission inevitably brings back to Gemma and Cady, of course.

It is not a spoiler to say that M3gan was not really dead at the end of the first film. It turns out that she supported herself towards the Cloud and looked at Gemma and Cady via their smart home devices. After a playing piece involving FBI agents, M3gan convinces Gemma that she needs a kind of physical body to stop Amelia. Curiously, his first new outfit is not at all fictitious Moxie child companion robot I tested a few years ago. (Embodied, the startup behind Moxie, folded last yearLeaving its handful of customers with a dead robot. This may be the reason why Moxie M3gan is authorized to swear.)

M3gan obtains his wish and, like the Six million dollarsreceives a fully improved body, the one that is Better, faster and stronger. (And also which is more suitable for friend Donald, the talent young actress who plays her.) And at that time, the film turns into a full action party while M3gan infiltrates a technology laboratory to save Cady. Fortunately, Megan 2.0 Understands the mission: the combat scenes are energetic and well choreographed, and Johnstone ensures that everything is easily readable. The multitude of references Steven Seagal also shows that he is a fan of Schlocky action cinema.

Johnstone is also clearly a technological nerd: the film is filled with references in places like Xerox Park, one of the first R&D laboratories that have developed concepts such as the graphical interface (graphic user interface) and the mouse. There is an analog of Elon Musk, played by the Grande Jemaine Clement, who has a too inflamed ego and an obsession with brain interface devices. And the film makes fun of the anti-technical crusaders, which sometimes repel all kinds of technological progress as intrinsically evil.

M3GAN 2.0 Balances an intelligent vision of technology alongside the pleasure of the summer film. And even if it lasts almost two hours, it never looks like an SLOG like almost three hours The final calculation. The two films relate to the imminent fate of an AI apocalypse, but M3GAN 2.0 manages to do it without being too self-sensor and much more well informed. Now that it seems that we are only a few clicks with a kind of technological apocalypse, making fun of this seems to be a better way to face.