Meg 2: The Trench Review

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You get more out of life when
you go out to a movie and no,

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I'm with the shoal. Hello everybody, and welcome back to the box

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office. I'm Jeff Johnson for a
film by podcast, here to offer you

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a quick spoiler free review of Meg
to the Trench Dons when you do three

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Megs and who knows why else to
escape the trench by the plan here,

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I'm gonna kill them all one by
one. Wrong, Come on, men

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too the trench ready, PG.
Thirteen. All right, So is this

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movie ridiculous? Yes? Is it
absurd? Yes, but that does not

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mean it's not awesome. Look,
if you saw the trailer, then you've

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already watched Jason Statham launch a se
do offie tidal wave at a Meg to

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throw an explosive harpoon at it,
so you should know what to expect.

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Statham is back as the resident deep
sea rescue slash Eco Warriors, slash all

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around badass Jonas Taylor and a couple
holdouts from the first movie. Veteran actor

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Cliff Curtis returns in the role of
Mac Page. Kennedy is back as DJ

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and in a surprising turn, Shuya
Sophia Kai is also rounding out the cast,

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who is that, Well, if
you remember the adorable eight year old

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may Ying from the first movie,
she's back as the nazo adorable teenager who

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is definitely not going to listen to
Statham when he tells her to stay put,

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putting her in harm's way time and
time again. So should we expect

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any nominations for Best Acting for this
cast? Well no, but let's be

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honest, that is not. While
you're watching this movie, you want to

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see Jason Statham do some insane things, both in and out of the water.

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And let's be honest, you want
to watch some giant sharks eat a

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lot of stupid people. Now,
surprisingly, the movie takes a hard left

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turn out of the Jaws nostalgia right
into the action genre, which is unexpected

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but also kind of cool. And
if you're a fan of newer films doing

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homages to classic great films, Director
Ben Wheatley has several things up his sleeve.

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We're spoiler free here. You already
saw the trailer, so you know

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we've got some Jurassic aquatic creatures,
but I'll I'll let you find the rest

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of them. There's some cool shots
and basically a story, a story thread

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lifted right out of a James Cameron's
first underwater movie from back in the day.

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As for the special effects, I
would say the CGI for prehistoric giant

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megalodons is what you should expect,
pretty much on par with the first movie,

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and the practical effects were pretty good. Actually, one excellent scene involving

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a helicopter. And look, if
you're a fan of the Piranha or Jaws

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franchises, I don't have to tell
you how that one turns out. You

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might not recognize the name Ben Wheatley, but for a guy that has cut

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his teeth on a couple of low
budget horror films, I think he did

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really good with this one. After
all, you got to take a chance

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sometimes. I mean, let's not
forget the guy that gave us Cool Runnings

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and While You Were Sleeping is the
same guy that gave us the first Meg

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movie. And again, the fact
that Wheatley can drop a small action movie

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with machine gun wielding mercenaries in the
middle of a giant shark movie tells me

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he knows what he's doing and we're
gonna see more things from him. Who

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knows. Maybe he's back in the
director's chair for meg three D because if

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you think the studio is going to
sleep on that, well you've got another

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thing coming, so then see it, stream it or swim for it.

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Overall, I had fun with this
one. I think it's a big,

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fun summer popcorn movie. And if
that's what you like, and you like

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the first one, I say see
this, go out see it, have

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yourself a good time. And if
you do, we want to hear what

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you thought of the movie. Was
this worth going back to the box office

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for? Or is it a bucket
full of chum? Let us know on

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us at www dot a film by
podcast dot com. Always love hearing your

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feedback, Always love hearing your reviews. And until next time, I'll buy

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the tickets if you buy the popcorn. I'm on my way and I'm hiding

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out in the dark seeing no part
of me is gonna stop biting to the

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artery is hardly reparable. I'm bearable, be careful, not a werewolf.

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I'm making fisted terrible and I dare
you care? You scare you here?

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You get them out, Get them
out, to them out, Put them

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out. Meg La don