M3GAN 2.0 (2025)

The first M3GAN was a creepy doll movie with a sense of humor. The sequel is a spy movie with a doll in it, and the swap is not an upgrade. Gerard Johnstone flips M3GAN into a good guy, then buries her under a Pentagon android named AMELIA, a doomed tech billionaire, a decades-old rogue AI and a tech conference infiltration. That’s a lot of plot for 120 minutes, and critics called it overcomplicated for good reason. The fun parts are real, though. M3GAN spends a stretch of the movie stuck inside a little toy robot, still throwing shade, and her quips land more often than not. Some critics loved the high-camp genre mashup, and when the movie leans all the way into silliness, it’s a decent time. It made $39.1 million worldwide on a reported $15 to 25 million budget. A 4.6 because the doll still has attitude and the story around her is a pileup. $237 says the next time a friend swears they’ve learned their lesson, you think of Gemma building another robot.

What works: M3GAN herself, trash-talking from inside a toy robot and then a brand new body, is still the funniest thing on screen, and the campiest stretches are a good time.

What doesn’t: The plot crams a Pentagon android, a dead billionaire, an old rogue AI and a spy mission into one movie, and the creepy horror that made the first one work is gone.

Who it’s for: Fans of the first movie who showed up for M3GAN’s attitude more than her scares.