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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 03 Aug 2023

Meg 2 is confident in its schlock, piling on one ridiculous conceit after another at such a pace that the audience can’t help but be swept…

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By Mark Keizer (225) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Aug 2023

It’s faint, if legitimate, praise to say that The Meg 2: The Trench is better than the first film because, while it repeats everything the…

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By Marco Vito Oddo (40) for Collider (1,032) on 03 Aug 2023

In the end, Meg 2: The Trench is not much different from the first installment in the franchise, for better and mostly worse…

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By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 03 Aug 2023

Though Meg 2 is by far the biggest production he’s ever helmed, director Ben Wheatley doesn’t appear to be in over his head with this;…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 03 Aug 2023

[Wheatley’s] chaos and madness is of a blandly cartoonish variety, neither serious enough to scare nor outlandish enough to elicit laughs…

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By Laura Bablack (1) for Observer (1,042) on 03 Aug 2023

It’s an odd and unfortunate shift for the sequel that leaves its action wanting, especially since it’s steeped in the genre of shark-based…

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By Kate Erbland (681) for IndieWire (3,631) on 03 Aug 2023

Yet another seemingly unassailable combination of story and filmmaker that fails to capitalize on any of its obvious promises…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 03 Aug 2023

The film goes from Shark Week to shark weak – from playfully amusing to just plain stupid, eliciting enough laughs in the wrong places to…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 03 Aug 2023

Lacking the killer instinct of its ferocious titular beasts, Meg 2: The Trench lumbers through the waters, failing as both a gripping thriller…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 03 Aug 2023

The Meg 2 is numbingly formulaic, promiscuously derivative and, for a few stretches (like the over-the-top third act), diverting in its very…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 03 Aug 2023

As much as it’s a joy to watch Statham slinging explosive harpoons from a jet ski, Meg 2 offers only scattershot pleasures…

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By Matt Donato (975) for IGN (1,013) on 03 Aug 2023

Meg 2: The Trench has all the excitement of fishing solo for two hours without a single bite…

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By Caryn James (352) for BBC (137) on 03 Aug 2023

When a gigantic octopus tentacle reached out of the ocean to grab Meiying, it suddenly made me think of a very good octopus dish at a local…

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By Matt Singer (625) for ScreenCrush (954) on 03 Aug 2023

The movie is over 90 minutes before the slasher component kicks in — and by that point, I was too bored to find much of anything endearingly silly…

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By Tomris Laffly (460) for TheWrap (3,203) on 03 Aug 2023

There is a big difference between a campy film that doesn’t take itself too seriously and one that is just wall-to-wall miscalculated execution…

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By Jocelyn Noveck (253) for The Associated Press (882) on 03 Aug 2023

At a certain point, somebody says “I just hope this goes better than last time.” It’s a cheeky reference to the first film, but also…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 03 Aug 2023

The Meg 2: The Trench loses the benefit of being an off-the-wall big-budget B-movie surprise, and it loses most of the laughs served up by…

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By Mike Ryan (265) for Uproxx (697) on 03 Aug 2023

Meg 2: The Trench commits the worst sin a movie about a giant prehistoric shark can make: it’s kind of boring…

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