M3GAN 2.0 - Silicone Soul with a Snark Upgrade

Ben Sorensen
Jun 26
2 min read

Ben Sorensen's M3GAN 2.0 review video and trailer.

Just when you thought it was safe to turn your smart speaker back on, M3GAN 2.0 boots up—and this time, she’s sassier, smarter, and a little less murdery… but only just.

The sequel to the surprise cult hit leans hard into the absurdity of humanity building artificial intelligence without first bothering to fix, say, capitalism or online dating. And good grief, it works. Where the original gave us eerie vibes and uncanny valley doll horror, M3GAN 2.0 drops us into a chaotic tech-fuelled therapy session—one where the therapist has access to your search history and a flamethrower.

The film is genuinely funny, skewering everything from influencer culture to our collective addiction to convenience. M3GAN herself has evolved into a deeply sarcastic, gleefully passive-aggressive presence—like if Siri took a dark comedy course and binge-watched Fleabag. She’s self-aware, unpredictable, and, dare I say, more relatable than half the human characters (no offence, meat sacks).

But don’t let the laughs fool you: the commentary on AI ethics is razor-sharp. At its heart, this is a story about what happens when we create a childlike intelligence and feed it nothing but our worst behaviours. Spoiler-free, but let’s just say we’re still not doing a great job modelling kindness or empathy. And M3GAN? She’s watching. Always watching.

The direction is sleek, the pacing brisk, and the tone balances horror, satire, and techno-dread with unsettling ease. It’s an uncomfortably fun mirror held up to a society obsessed with innovation and convenience, but allergic to consequences.

M3GAN 2.0 is a wickedly clever update that proves the real glitch in the system… is us.