Every once in a while there is a movie so good that I peridically check to see if its creator has made something else. Imagine my joy when I discovered Gerard Johnstone, the director of the brilliant Housebound, had finally made his second movie, M3GAN.
In M3GAN, a young girl, mourning her parents, is given a robotic AI prototype doll by an inventor who hopes she can fix tragedy with technology.
Like Housebound, M3GAN is wonderful at mixing comedy and scares. The story is, as some have said, predictable, but that's part of the fun. We *know* where this story is going, and that makes every weird look or movement of the doll kinda hilarious. This is a knowing movie that plays to people who know the tropes, but if you go in expecting some original story with an amazing twist well, that's not this movie.
The movie flows seemlessly from family drama to sci-fi to comedy to suspense to horror, and like Housebound can hope from humor to scares and back without being jarring.
I was pretty shocked to see this movie only has a 6.3 on IMDB, but then, Housebound only has a 6.7 so perhaps a lot of people just don't know a good movie if they see one? I was torn between giving this movie an 8 or a 9 but when I saw so many middling scores I decided I *had* to go with 9 just to balance things out a tiny bit.
Anyway, if you liked Housebound, watch this. If you liked M3GAN, watch Housebound. And if you like good comedy/horror/thriller/dramas, watch both.
In M3GAN, a young girl, mourning her parents, is given a robotic AI prototype doll by an inventor who hopes she can fix tragedy with technology.
Like Housebound, M3GAN is wonderful at mixing comedy and scares. The story is, as some have said, predictable, but that's part of the fun. We *know* where this story is going, and that makes every weird look or movement of the doll kinda hilarious. This is a knowing movie that plays to people who know the tropes, but if you go in expecting some original story with an amazing twist well, that's not this movie.
The movie flows seemlessly from family drama to sci-fi to comedy to suspense to horror, and like Housebound can hope from humor to scares and back without being jarring.
I was pretty shocked to see this movie only has a 6.3 on IMDB, but then, Housebound only has a 6.7 so perhaps a lot of people just don't know a good movie if they see one? I was torn between giving this movie an 8 or a 9 but when I saw so many middling scores I decided I *had* to go with 9 just to balance things out a tiny bit.
Anyway, if you liked Housebound, watch this. If you liked M3GAN, watch Housebound. And if you like good comedy/horror/thriller/dramas, watch both.