After unexpectedly becoming caregiver for her orphaned niece, Cady (Violet McGraw), robotics inventor Gemma (Allison Williams) decides to pair the little girl with her newest idea: M3GAN (Amie Donald), a life-sized android designed to be the only toy a kid needs. Because Gemma has apparently never seen Terminator. Things are going great and Cady is seemingly moving on from her parents' death with zero emotional involvement from Gemma, but the more bonded M3GAN and Cady grow, the more Gemma starts to wonder about M3GAN's programming.
People always forget to turn off the Be Evil button!
This was one of the most talked about horror movies of last year and it is super entertaining. If I had to nitpick, I'd say that they made M3GAN too sympathetic to be truly evil. There's a fine line between villain and antihero and this skirts a little too close for me to be completely on board. And I can't tell if it's just because it's a female villain (because Chucky sure as shit didn't feel the need to justify himself) or if it's part of a larger trend of romanticizing the bad guys.
None of which matters if you're just looking to watch a 4' tall killing machine fuck up some irritating people. If so, M3GAN is currently streaming on Peacock.
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