The Meg to the Trench

I saw it a while ago because Ben Wheatley came on MK3D, you know, the show that I do at the BFI. It may not be a critics film, but it's much more fun than it had any rights. What they've done is cranked up the madness. There are set pieces involving the staeth on a jet ski with a pointy stick fighting monsters like the size of a house. Fun Island is entirely populated by a bunch of people who just look like bait. And then all this stuff is happening. The third act goes absolutely loop, delude, lala, what on earth is going to happen? Everything is thrown at the screen.

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