The first Meg is a guilty favorite of mine so I certainly understood what to expect and was not looking for high art, but this sequel was just not good. Everything felt really rushed, the underlying story was barely there and the "bad guys" were just terrible caricatures. Overall the acting was bad, it was clear the actors were all pretty much phoning it in (even Statham, whom I love). Some, however, stood out as particularly terrible - the wealthy benefactor (Driscoll) has to be the girlfriend of one of the producers because wow, she cannot act to save her life, same with Jess - just awful. Most of them sounded like they were just reading the script without any effort at all to act. Part of the fun of the first Meg are the comedic moments, unfortunately whoever wrote the script was trying to recreate that and just went completely overboard with jokes so dumb and predictable they pretty much all fall flat.
I was really hoping to like Meg 2 as much as I enjoyed Meg but there just was very little to like about it.
I was really hoping to like Meg 2 as much as I enjoyed Meg but there just was very little to like about it.