LOS ANGELES, June 25 (UPI) -- M3gan 2.0, in theaters Friday, attempts to advance its franchise the way Aliens and Terminator 2 did theirs. It's not as natural an evolution as James Cameron's sequels, but it's still good, silly fun.
After the artificial intelligence doll M3gan (Amie Donald with Jenna Davis' voice) went on a rampage in the first film, the military applied her technology to Amelia (Ivanna Sakhno). When Amelia goes rogue in the sequel, M3gan is the only one who can stop her.
So M3gan contacts her creator, Gemma Forrester (Allison Williams), via her smart house technology. After Gemma saw M3gan violently defend her niece, Cady (Violet McGraw), in the original film, Gemma now advocates for limiting technology amongst children, and developing any technology responsibly.
The expansion of the M3gan world is not simply that there are now two robots causing trouble. The film's entire concept of artificial intelligence is larger.
M3gan does need a new body, and Gemma is the one capable of rebuilding her. This forces Gemma to form an uneasy alliance with her former tormentor, like Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) and the Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger).
