Nerd Thoughts

Forget Oppenheimer, Meg 2 is the true shoo-in Oscar Best Picture Film! I’m obviously joking, but I do in fact, love both Meg movies. Ever since I did a project for a film class about shark movies I’ve had a soft spot for them, especially what I would call well-made ones. I like to describe the Meg movies as a more legit Sharknado. It’s not only more legit in the most obvious way(money/production value), but the acting and storyline are on a completely different level. As crazy as Meg 1 & 2 are, their plots are way more believable because they put more effort into explaining things and creating a high-tech world where things like this could be possible.

Now that I’ve talked about these two movies as a whole, I want to get into Meg 2 specifically. Weirdly enough, my favorite part was that they (unfortunately) killed off Suyin instead of having her and Jonas break up. It would have been extremely easy for this type of movie to either not mention her(or her daughter) ever again or just include a throwaway line about them “Not working out.”. So, I thought it showed some dedication to making the movies fit together by making Jonas a single dad. While I love the ridiculousness of this movie, I had one problem… the four-legged dinosaur. Even though they had gills, the beginning of the movie gave me the impression that these dinos were primarily land dinosaurs that could swim and not the other way around. So it makes no sense to me how an animal that needs to breathe air could survive the entire time in the trench. It just confused me a bit, but hey who really expects logic in a Meg movie.

But really, plain and simple, this movie is extremely fun to watch. It’s a comical and crazy story to watch that doesn’t take itself seriously. And in my opinion, anyone who shits on both the Meg movies doesn’t know how to have fun. This movie is an 8 out of 10 for me and I hope there’s another one in the future.