M3GAN: The Robot That Loves You To Death
Here comes another James Wan / Blumhouse production about an evil doll, but it’s not Annabelle this time. This girl was built with more abilities than just sitting there. M3GAN (short for Model 3 Generative Android) is a prototype for an ultra-high-tech line of children’s toys that promise to love them back. And M3GAN’s inventor knows the perfect test subject: her orphaned niece!
The girl and M3GAN become fast friends, but it isn’t long before M3GAN starts getting ideas of her own. Built for one purpose — to protect the girl — M3GAN starts going to extremes to achieve that goal, which of course include murder. Now the creator of M3GAN can’t turn her off…and it may not be long before the doll senses Mom is a threat.
On the surface, M3GAN isn’t breaking any kind of new ground. There are plenty of movies about killer dolls as well as movies about “friends” who get a bit overprotective. However…the writer of this one is Akela Cooper, the same person who came up with Malignant…and if you remember how crazy THAT movie got, M3GAN has the potential to get even more nuts. In the trailer alone she dances the boogie while slaughtering people with a makeshift katana ripped from a paper cutter. M3GAN knows how to party.
And if you’re wondering if a team-up with Chucky is in her future….no, Chucky is already a committed doll, remember? M3GAN will be released in theaters January 13.
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