'The Meg' not as fun as it should be, not as bad as it could be | Review
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One of the last big movies of the summer, The Meg offers passable monster-movie fun for a couple of hours. Had the movie been less concerned with its inherently ludicrous story and leaned more heavily into its own self-awareness (as promised in the marketing), the movie could've been so much more. But taken as it is, audiences could do a lot worse than this movie about a giant prehistoric shark.
'The Meg' not as fun as it should be, not as…
One of the last big movies of the summer, The Meg offers passable monster-movie fun for a couple of hours. Had the movie been less concerned with its inherently ludicrous story and leaned more heavily into its own self-awareness (as promised in the marketing), the movie could've been so much more. But taken as it is, audiences could do a lot worse than this movie about a giant prehistoric shark.
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