Meg 2: The Trench is a cesspool of several over the top ideas that unfortunately ends up feeling far shallower due to how overcrowded with themes it is.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 6, 2025

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

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 19, 2024

Things might have felt more perilous with more finessed CGI.

| Jun 24, 2024

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2024

Makes the first movie seem like Citizen Kane.

| Original Score: D | Dec 27, 2023

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.

| Original Score: 15/100 | Nov 19, 2023

Sharknado with a bigger budget.

| Original Score: C | Nov 13, 2023

The title may suggest that this is a sequel to the 2018 global hit, but its content hints that the makers swiped a fistful of script pages from such deliberately dopey efforts as Sharknado, Mega Shark Versus Crocosaurus, and Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 8, 2023

With so much more going on besides meg lunching, this somewhat unlikely sequel will stretch an audience’s patience.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Oct 31, 2023

There's an enjoyable disdain for empathy as extras get munched, though mostly it's just not that exciting, and B movie tropes that should evoke knowing enjoyment seem simply dull. The green-washing makes it worthy, if not see-worthy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 26, 2023

... An irritating moviegoing experience and certainly the worst movie of the summer. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 20, 2023

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

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 20, 2023

delightfully absurd and not quite as good as you’re hoping it might be, partially because the special effects are so uneven, ranging from the genuinely impressive, to the cartoonish

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 6, 2023

Definitively edible. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 5, 2023

Just as “Meg 2” fails to work as a serious, scary shark thriller like ‘Jaws,” it also lacks the camp appeal of “Sharknado.” Instead, it’s stranded at sea, somewhere in the middle, and even appealing tough guy Statham can’t save it.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 23, 2023

It offers a throwback to the kind of no-brainer formula genre thriller that used to be par for a summer’s moviegoing course, but now seems a bit out of place.

| Sep 20, 2023

The filmmakers are more than comfortable with the writing team either overlooking any scientific inaccuracy in Steve Altern's source novel, or in adding their own logic-defying scenarios, including that meeting of the megalodon and Tyrannosaurus...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 19, 2023

Unfortunately, one must make it through most of the movie to reach this fun, chaotic conclusion.

| Sep 5, 2023

more sharks but no bite ... Statham, also an executive producer, returns as diver Jonas Taylor, but he seems bored. Or miserable. His performance has a grumpy flatness, not even the winking humor of THE MEG.

| Aug 29, 2023

Wheatley dishes out pedestrian CG FX, frames Statham in a few heroic poses and careens his way to a third act that plays as if the writers saw how people praised the third act in the first movie, so they just rewrote it.

| Aug 29, 2023