Meg 2: The Trench

Things might have felt more perilous with more finessed CGI.

What’s perhaps most damning about this big dumb shark movie, however, is how little it actually pays attention to its fine finned friends.

Definitively edible. [Full review in Spanish]

Eventually stops taking itself seriously and becomes the movie it's meant to be.

While there are undeniable instances of magic, there are just as many unintentionally laughable ones right along with them.

Attempts to bite off its 2018 predecessor by going bigger in every way, but rarely for the better. It’s a clumsy action movie with the occasional spurt of fun monster conflict amidst a sea of flat characters and a tiresome plot of corporate espionage.

Extinction was a kinder fate to Megalodon than this megalo-dung of a film.

Meg 2: The Trench is more meg, good, bad, and indifferently. Whether this franchise can sustain the swelling digital carnage remains to be seen, though as an exercise in creature feature excess The Trench delivers.

Makes the first movie seem like Citizen Kane.

A stilted and accidental farce, Meg 2: The Trench has laughable dialogue driving a film centered on some of the worst big-budget computer-generated graphics this year.