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2/4
Wacky monster movie that is weirder than expected
Indyfreak - wrote on 01/02/2024
Meg 2: The Trench has no brains but a lot of balls to be as batshit crazy as it is. I don't know how else to say it.
It's one of those sequels that has twenty ideas for a story and uses ALL of them. It features not just one giant prehistoric shark but three of them. Plus a kraken sized octopus. And we got creepy little dinosaur-like reptiles scurrying about. There's even an early scene that is clearly meant as a 'take that' to JURASSIC PARK. Bold as brass, says I.
The story picks up years after the first movie and Jason Statham is raising the precocious daughter from the first movie on his own while still keeping an eye out for those pesky Megalodons. But an evil businesswoman is illegally exploiting the mega sharks' territory for profit (the fiend) and now there are more …