M3GAN
MEGAN RETURNS
Attitude catches up with murderous robotic doll M3GAN, gay icon and star of cult film M3GAN, as she reboots for the newly released sequel, M3GAN 2.0
Words Jamie Tabberer
UNIVERSAL PICTURES
'I tell you who I didn’t like working with — that bitch, Moxie.”‘I’ll Yes, M3GAN is baaaack… The queen bee of immaculately dressed robot girlies has returned to cinema screens with hotly anticipated sequel M3GAN 2.0.
Just don’t call it a comeback — bona fide gay icons have no shelf life. This doll climbed out of the box and destroyed the damn shelf…
Indeed, after its release in early 2023, M3GAN grossed a cool $181.8 million worldwide, scoring an enviable 93 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes to boot, and Universal Pictures wisely fast-tracked a sequel. The result, once again starring Girls’ Allison Williams, was released in UK cinemas at the end of June.
For the uninitiated, here’s a quick recap of what happened in M3GAN. When Gemma, a roboticist, invents robotic doll M3GAN as a companion for her orphaned niece Cady, the robot goes off-program, taking friendship and protection of her charge to extreme levels and dispatching any threat. It becomes clear that M3GAN needs urgent reprogramming in the lab — but this triggers M3GAN to go on a murderous rampage. By the end of the first film, M3GAN has been deactivated — or has she?