At once funny and terrifying, this new evil doll on the block brings our worst fears about kids and technology to the big screen.
Our rating: is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a lifelike doll programmed to be a child's greatest companion and a parent's greatest ally. Designed by Gemma, a brilliant roboticist,can listen, watch and learn as it plays the role of friend and teacher, playmate and protector.
In the film, she's the pet project of toymaker Gemma, who is suddenly thrown into parenthood when her sister and brother-in-law die, leaving their only daughter Cady behind in Gemma's care. Not knowing how to connect with her, she tests M3gan on her, which forms an unbreakable bond that turns deadly.
Overall, there's a youthfulness in the film that's not prevalent in the horror genre, and the writers toe a fine line between the doll's witty modern dialect and it coming off as 'adults-trying-to-speak-teenager'. They pull it off spectacularly, though, and still create a creeptastic doll with a face that hits the uncanny valley at just the right angle.
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