There has been so much advance interest in this movie, with the trailer and the snippets posted online. I was afraid finally seeing it would be a disappointment. But it wasn't at all, My wife and I were thoroughly entertained, at home streaming on the Peacock channel. Then I watched it twice more during the following week, knowing the entire story arc, I found it to be an even better movie. When you really pay attention you realize how well-conceived the whole story is.
Then, a month later I watched it yet again, this time on BluRay from my public library. What a step up! The picture and especially the sound take it to another level. Plus the extras show how they used puppets, animatronics, and a real actress seamlessly combined to portray M3GAN.
This is a slight futuristic story, a tech company is working with AI to make toys that can speak and react. The next step before a truly sentient robot. But one scientist (Allison Williams) is a step ahead and her ultimate motivation is when her young 9-yr-old niece Cady loses her parents in a winter road accident. She is depressed and could use an ideal companion.
So M3GAN is created. She is "paired" with the young girl with the duty to be her companion and not let anything bad happen to her. But no one is prepared for how well her learning abilities work or how advanced she will become so quickly. In the process of "protecting" Cady she adopts tactics her creator would not have imagined and a series of really bad things happen.
This is fiction, of course, and wicked fiction. There is a bit too much, unnecessary foul language here and there. And the actor who plays David, the head of the company, isn't very good. And Allison Williams often drops into this gravelly, "vocal fry" voice, especially ending sentences, that is very annoying. But overall I really enjoyed it as a wicked and entertaining movie of a robot learning rapidly and going rogue. Maybe this is a realistic warning of future AI out of control.
The two young girls, one who plays Cady the other who plays M3GAN with the prosthetic face, are both excellent.
Then, a month later I watched it yet again, this time on BluRay from my public library. What a step up! The picture and especially the sound take it to another level. Plus the extras show how they used puppets, animatronics, and a real actress seamlessly combined to portray M3GAN.
This is a slight futuristic story, a tech company is working with AI to make toys that can speak and react. The next step before a truly sentient robot. But one scientist (Allison Williams) is a step ahead and her ultimate motivation is when her young 9-yr-old niece Cady loses her parents in a winter road accident. She is depressed and could use an ideal companion.
So M3GAN is created. She is "paired" with the young girl with the duty to be her companion and not let anything bad happen to her. But no one is prepared for how well her learning abilities work or how advanced she will become so quickly. In the process of "protecting" Cady she adopts tactics her creator would not have imagined and a series of really bad things happen.
This is fiction, of course, and wicked fiction. There is a bit too much, unnecessary foul language here and there. And the actor who plays David, the head of the company, isn't very good. And Allison Williams often drops into this gravelly, "vocal fry" voice, especially ending sentences, that is very annoying. But overall I really enjoyed it as a wicked and entertaining movie of a robot learning rapidly and going rogue. Maybe this is a realistic warning of future AI out of control.
The two young girls, one who plays Cady the other who plays M3GAN with the prosthetic face, are both excellent.