My childhood palaeontology autism surfaced for the first time in like 10+ years watching this trailer to remind me that, while sharks existed during the Cretaceous period, Carcharadon Megalodon definitely wasn’t one of them. And that one memory has now started unlocking so much repressed trivia on fossils and dinosaur species and I have no idea how to stop it. Thanks MEG 2.
@@JarJarBinks4ever They did between roughly twenty two million years based on the oldest fossil currently discovered until the youngest at around three & a half million years.
For anyone who's genuinely curious: Megalodon was indeed a prehistoric shark species, however it didn't live in the Mesozoic along with dinosaurs. It actually lived in the period after that, the Cenozoic (yes I'm a huge Paleo-nerd)
The opening reminds me of an old Calvin & Hobbes strip where he opens his daydream with the narration: "65 million years ago...dinosaurs ruled the world...and Calvin ruled the dinosaurs!"
In the first The Meg book, the first scene is of a simulation where a Megalodon does eat a Tyrannosaurus with it later being explained that it was a simulation and that this couldn’t happen since Tyrannosaurs were from the Mesozoic and the Meg in the Cenozoic. The trailer may be referencing that scene in the book.
The opening of the trailer with the dinosaurs is adapted from the opening of the The Meg book, where it’s revealed it’s a lecture from the main character going ‘well actually, that’s not what would have happened, they didn’t even exist at the same time lol’
I just want him to do another Guy Ritchie flick, because those are the only times I've seen him as something other than a meathead and it was refreshing
@@Heizenberg32 awh no wayyy he totally is a real actor! He’s given better performances than some actors who actually really give a shit lol. Cool tht he’s found a nice spot of Hollywood he can succeed jn
@@dex3625 To be fair Cruise is also a legitimately accomplished actor, which still shines through in his action performances like Mission Impossible and Top Gun Maverick
8:31 Looked up if this was going to be directed by Jon Turteltaub as well, I was not ready to find out that Ben Wheatley of all people was in the director's chair. Ngl I'm somewhat compelled to check it out now even though I hated the original.
Eli Roth was attached to direct the first Meg but it ended up going to Jon Turteltaub, the guy behind 3 Ninjas and The Sorcerer's Apprentice. The first movie needed that Eli Roth splatter to make it worthwhile, but WB went for a PG-13 rating. I'm hoping Ben Wheatley can infuse this sequel with a meaner edge and a more authentic sense of humor. That being said, the trailer looks uninspired. That t-rex sequence did make me a little giddy, however.
Can someone explain to me what about the first Meg movie made it seem like an explicitly made for China film? Since I sure as hell ain't gonna watch it lol.
honestly liked this movie. i watched it on a 10 hour flight while my partner was having the worst ear pain of his life. i never watched the first one but this one was just Jurassic park underwater. i liked the uncle character who kept trying to get himself killed in increasingly stupid ways. I can tell my transition is going well because i never would have tried this back when I was a woman. stupid and gender affirming 10/10
I feel they missed an opportunity to title this The Meg 2: Megs or The Meg 2: Megger or even do a crossover with the Fast & Furious series since Jason Staham is in both. That's right: The Meg 2: Megs and Shaw.
Idk if the Chinese are interested in Kaijus in a similar way to the Japanese. Kaijus were an impactful metaphor for the sudden and overwhelming destructive force of the nuclear bombs. Some of them may have actually thought - in the moments immediately following Hiroshima and Nagasaki - that they were some kind of supernatural force. It was cathartic for them to create and consume media in which Japanese experts, through their excellence and determination, were able to defeat that destructive force. China, which was horribly brutalized by Japan during WWII, treats Japan a lot like Quebec treats Canada; a nation from which the primary objective is to distinguish the self. That said, being in such close proximity, one cannot help but be influenced by cultural exports like, e.g., anime. So yeah, unsure about China's feelings on Kaijus.
@Antonio Gramsci Your comment is needlessly hostile. You picked a good target b/c I'm good natured and won't retaliate with vitriol, but you also picked a bad target because - let's be real - there's nothing in my comment which suggests lack of familiarity with the politics, history and culture of China. Have you considered that you don't know enough about Quebec? Read the Tin Flute. It does a good job illustrating the hardships endured by the people of Quebec in English dominated Canada early on in the country's history, explaining in many ways the resentment passed down through generations. Given the cruelty, many quite fairly considered their nation to be a colony of Canada, rather than simply another province within the nation of Canada. Many still do, largely due to intergenerational trauma. Canada itself - via the constitution act of 1982 (or was it 81?) recognizes them as a "nation within a nation." Especially given its own history with partial colonization under imperial Japan, there are parallels to be drawn for sure. Perhaps there are better comparisons, but it's a pretty good example to use if you're speaking to a Canadian like Adam, for whom Quebec's deliberate cultural distancing from the rest of Canada would be a saliant issue. Your point about the country trying more greatly to distinguish itself from the west is an interesting one. It might explain the focus (as it itself might argue) on 'public welfare' at the expense of individual liberty (i.e., restrictions on content, restrictions on gaming hours for youths, etc.), as opposed to the west where it's the other way around, but please note that my comment was regarding whether China would or wouldn't be into Kaijus, hence, that's not really relevant. That isn't to say it's not relevant in the grand scheme of things, but it does nothing to help us determine the attitude of China toward Kaijus. It's not too dissimilar from criticizing me for failing to recognize the greater eradication perpetrated against the Jewish people when I mentioned WWII. It's just not important for understanding the material in question.
Yeah, the megalodon was prehistoric, but more Ice Age prehistoric than Jurassic Park prehistoric. Not that it matters in this type of movie. If you're going to make ridiculous bullshit, don't let realism get in the way. In fact, I hope the shot of the T. rex isn't a pre-credits prologue from the ancient past but a misdirect and they actually find an undersea lost world full of dinosaurs. That's the kind of high octane schlock that can elevate a bad movie to an entertaining ride.
five seconds in and we’re supposed to believe that this shark didn’t totally just beach itself trying to eat a T-Rex that is obviously in the upmost shallow part of the water. This is not make any sense. And the fact that you don’t even see its dorsal fin, or the top part of its fukn’ head when it’s totally just in the shallow part of the water is so baffling do these people not know how big the shark was? I’m so confused the shark and the T-Rex would both be dead, because the shark would not be able to unbeach itself. 😂😂
Will they have a cheesy forced romantic relationship again? Also holy smokes, i thought the same thing about the shallow beach in the beginning. It’s always so weird that people don’t notice that!!
I mean, literally the shot before that is showing that the beach is right at the peak of a seacliff that drops off into deep water. It is explicitly not a shallow beach.
@@DrFrazzle I just rewatched the trailer to make sure. It does show the water going deeper, but not as deep to fit a Megalodon (imo). The Meg errupts directly behind the T-rex, which was standing in the middle of the shallow water instead of on the edge of the cliff. I don't get how the Meg wouldn't beach itself doing this. On one hand I would think it got back into the water, because its body was that huge so it could use it as a leverage effect to push itself back in. But on the other hand, then it contradicts the fact it would fit in that "deeper" part. Because it's even bigger than the part that is shown while coming out of the water.
This looks like if the first Meg movie had a baby with Jurassic Park and Cosmic Sin. I know this isn’t meant to be taken seriously, but did we really need a sequel to (as YMS once said) one of the most uninspired scripts ever written?
I can at least appreciate them heavily leaning into the camp with the sequel (though imma be honest....some of these shots are still cheesy as fuck). With that being said.....you can TELL with the 1st movie they didn't / couldn't kill off too many Chinese characters at the beach (isn't the only one-screen death from the guy in the bubble from that beach scene?) ....but the moment we get a bunch of white people they go "Okay, we aren't going to piss off Chinese viewers if we treat the Americans like meat bags while giving all our Chinese main characters plot armor" XD.
I'm calling it if this gets a sequel they're definitely going to name it M3G!!!!
MuhThreeG
M3GS
the S stands for plural!
m3gan
If they don't they're stupid
@@ShadowRubberDuck*_What a thrill..._*
My childhood palaeontology autism surfaced for the first time in like 10+ years watching this trailer to remind me that, while sharks existed during the Cretaceous period, Carcharadon Megalodon definitely wasn’t one of them. And that one memory has now started unlocking so much repressed trivia on fossils and dinosaur species and I have no idea how to stop it. Thanks MEG 2.
Unlock more of your childhood autism and buy one of fossil excavation kits
Megalodon existed closer to our time than fucking T.Rex if I'm not wrong, lmao
@@JarJarBinks4ever Oh yeah, it only went extinct around 3 million-ish years ago lol
Isn't it Otodus Megalodon instead of Carcharadon? The mega toothed sharks which are now completely extinct?
@@JarJarBinks4ever They did between roughly twenty two million years based on the oldest fossil currently discovered until the youngest at around three & a half million years.
For anyone who's genuinely curious: Megalodon was indeed a prehistoric shark species, however it didn't live in the Mesozoic along with dinosaurs. It actually lived in the period after that, the Cenozoic (yes I'm a huge Paleo-nerd)
I thought most people knew this
@@bowlrr Unfortunately, most don't know.
Thank you
I'm a huge boob nerd.
Yeah but a Meg eating a T Rex is an iconic comic-book-type image now. It’s just plain cool. Got to have it for the trailer.
The opening reminds me of an old Calvin & Hobbes strip where he opens his daydream with the narration: "65 million years ago...dinosaurs ruled the world...and Calvin ruled the dinosaurs!"
Honestly I feel like Calvin would be an absolute connoisseur of these movies
Every day we're getting closer to a feature film of Tyrannosaurs in F14s
If you look closely at the background during the beach scene, you can see Calvin and Hobbes in the cardboard time machine.
“Is it a prehistoric shark?”
Why do you think it was called the Meg? Did he think it was short for Megan? 😂
If you’re referring to the Family Guy character it’s actually short for Megaton
M3gan!
No it's a redlettermedia / star trek reference: Megan Lafox.
In the first The Meg book, the first scene is of a simulation where a Megalodon does eat a Tyrannosaurus with it later being explained that it was a simulation and that this couldn’t happen since Tyrannosaurs were from the Mesozoic and the Meg in the Cenozoic. The trailer may be referencing that scene in the book.
This decade's next Sharknado franchise.
The worst part is realizing that these films are based on books and this is literally where the second book goes
_Oh._
There.are.BOOKS??!??
I'm sorry, did you say books??
But the books are actually really fun
@@leonhartdragomir8948 The movies are based on the books!
Meg 2: The Chris
10:57 yes, the green goblin burning grandma scream
Adum doesnt know the megalodon was a prehistoric shark?
If it isn't on FA then he probably has no idea what it is
I think it's been well established that he isn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed
inb4 It isn't prehistoric because it's still lives
@@AimForMyHead81 Well that's unfortunate.
@@JC-oq5ex exactly lol
Do you think unfinished VFX shots in the trailer is why most studios don't upload in a higher resolution?
The opening of the trailer with the dinosaurs is adapted from the opening of the The Meg book, where it’s revealed it’s a lecture from the main character going ‘well actually, that’s not what would have happened, they didn’t even exist at the same time lol’
The 'lecture' was a rewrite in modern republishings of the novel. In the original novel it was 100% serious.
Jason Statham is killing it for being 55 years old. I wonder if he’ll eventually transition to drama roles.
He has said many times that he he doesn't consider himself a "real" actor. But you never know!
I just want him to do another Guy Ritchie flick, because those are the only times I've seen him as something other than a meathead and it was refreshing
@@Heizenberg32 awh no wayyy he totally is a real actor! He’s given better performances than some actors who actually really give a shit lol. Cool tht he’s found a nice spot of Hollywood he can succeed jn
bruh Tom Cruise is 60 and doesn't do it with green screen crap like statham does, he actually hung around planes and piloted them
@@dex3625 To be fair Cruise is also a legitimately accomplished actor, which still shines through in his action performances like Mission Impossible and Top Gun Maverick
It's official, they've jumped the megladon.
I can no longer tell if adam is joking or serious about the 4k thing
the meg is that SCP that can come out of any amount of water to eat you.
i wonder how movies like this perform in taiwan and japan
Can't wait for the inevitable crossover threequel, The M3G(an)
8:31 Looked up if this was going to be directed by Jon Turteltaub as well, I was not ready to find out that Ben Wheatley of all people was in the director's chair. Ngl I'm somewhat compelled to check it out now even though I hated the original.
Meg 2: The Stench
Beat me to it.
@@Ashtonyss well, you gotta be fast! XD
man never thought they make a live action Sharktale movie.
Love that this starts off with Adum talking about how Meg 2 trailer is in 4k but not Dune.
Once the shark started busting through the bridge i was just waiting for chat to start spamming Sonic…peak iconic imagery.
Same for the Green Goblin scream.
12:53 you can literally see the reflection of the green screen on his clothes LOL
saw this movie in a drive in with friends and the opening scene with the shark eating the t. rex had us crying
Adam doesn't know that The Meg is a full book series, where it fights a different monster every time.
Meg 2: Bigger Jaws directed by Peter Griffin
The Meg 2: Electric Bugaloo
Shout out to that guy who didn’t even know what a barracuda was, the school system is working as intended 😉👍
No school teaches about animals
@@tanner201x8 the joke
You
@@ghostshrimp5006Are you saying schools should teach about barracudas and other fish?
5:45 It's actually the Asian guy from 13 Reasons Why.
From british gangster movies to fighting a extinct giant shark. good on ya jason
7:10 Please tell me I'm not the only person that heard "The biggest (Scoot word) I've ever seen"
Eli Roth was attached to direct the first Meg but it ended up going to Jon Turteltaub, the guy behind 3 Ninjas and The Sorcerer's Apprentice. The first movie needed that Eli Roth splatter to make it worthwhile, but WB went for a PG-13 rating. I'm hoping Ben Wheatley can infuse this sequel with a meaner edge and a more authentic sense of humor. That being said, the trailer looks uninspired. That t-rex sequence did make me a little giddy, however.
That one shot from inside the shark’s mouth was the only part that didn’t look generic as hell.
The entire trailer should have been shot from inside the mouth, just a 90 second string of beach kills
The Megalodon didn't even live 65 million years ago, literally no research went into this
Seeing the the meg break through the glass made me laugh my ass off ngl.
Damn you Discovery and your shark week and for making megaladon into movie schlock
Spring-loaded shark, auto retracts into the ocean.
It’s 65 all over again! Why 65 millions ago?
“Hope nobody nibbles my toes” -Adam
This is just that episode of clone wars where they are in the mon calamari planet
9:04
Jason Statham: It’s the largest baby anyone’s ever seen.
It’s a prologue the first part I’m pretty sure plus I’m pretty sure could be wrong for both things but I think it’s based off a book
2024 Oscars Best Picture, calling it now
It bothers me that they spoiled so many cool moments. I don’t know why these production companies keep doing that.
Yeah how does Adum not know that the shark is prehistoric
I’ve never laughed at a trailer this hard in a long time.
Can someone explain to me what about the first Meg movie made it seem like an explicitly made for China film? Since I sure as hell ain't gonna watch it lol.
wait they are in a 8km deep trench...in suits??
Yeah its ridiculous but i mean i guess that's what they're going for.
I assume from the shot of the guy punching through concrete blocks that these are special scifi suits that can handle ridiculous pressures.
Desperately awaiting the next installment in the Monster Cinematic Universe, "MEG & Mothra VS. Kong & Godzilla"
Adum that’s the Asian guy from 13 reasons why not inception. Silly billy
This is gonna be fun!
the Meg Cinematic Universe (MCU) is expanding
It will be film of the year.
MCU- Meg cinematic universe
Hahahaha the pedalling sound effect they used for the boat is from SpongeBob, I'm pretty fucking sure
Megalodon sharks lived during the (Tertiary) Cenozoic, not the (Cretaceous) Mesozoic. So there's no way they met & fed on non avian dinosaurs.
This reminds me that Vaush's dad, an award winning VFX artist, worked on Sharknado.(along with a few X Files episodes)
Shark reverse mode 😂
you don't understand, Meg is a WORM, like in Dune
MEGGY 2: UNLICENSED MUSIC PANDERING SHARK EVENT!!!
honestly liked this movie. i watched it on a 10 hour flight while my partner was having the worst ear pain of his life. i never watched the first one but this one was just Jurassic park underwater. i liked the uncle character who kept trying to get himself killed in increasingly stupid ways. I can tell my transition is going well because i never would have tried this back when I was a woman. stupid and gender affirming 10/10
is that the inception guy from thirteen reasons why?
surely Adam didn't actually confuse that guy for Ken Wantanabe?
@@blaisetelfer8499 which one is he, i’m sorry
y upload in 4K? porqué.
I’d love to know Adam’s thoughts on Shin Godzilla
as a Dune fan I am actually offended there's still no legit 4K version of the Dune trailer... what the fuck...
The Mama Mia Trench
The Meg looks like Bruce from finding Nemo.
This movie oozes the 90s B movie energy
Man I know the movie looks goofy and whatever, but damn I still get that fear of deep water giant sea creatures.
It’s based on a book series
It’s Jason Statham it is.
No that’s Clive Owen.
Oh. It’s Clive Owen it is.
Sharknado with money
I'm getting bad 2010 Piranha vibes.
The 4th one will be Meg 4K
Who wanted this?
me :)
Production companies.
Those who like fun over realism.
China.
Once in a while it’s fun to see a movie where no thoughts are required expect “ha ha shark go chomp.”
I feel they missed an opportunity to title this The Meg 2: Megs or The Meg 2: Megger or even do a crossover with the Fast & Furious series since Jason Staham is in both. That's right: The Meg 2: Megs and Shaw.
I can answer the 4k debate on this one. China/Japan cares about visual a lot more than American audiences
Should have called it Meg and More
woW DOOD BIG MEG
When did the makers of sharknado go mainstream?
why not just make Crank 3?
i thought this was gonna be about mthreegan 2
Idk if the Chinese are interested in Kaijus in a similar way to the Japanese. Kaijus were an impactful metaphor for the sudden and overwhelming destructive force of the nuclear bombs. Some of them may have actually thought - in the moments immediately following Hiroshima and Nagasaki - that they were some kind of supernatural force. It was cathartic for them to create and consume media in which Japanese experts, through their excellence and determination, were able to defeat that destructive force. China, which was horribly brutalized by Japan during WWII, treats Japan a lot like Quebec treats Canada; a nation from which the primary objective is to distinguish the self. That said, being in such close proximity, one cannot help but be influenced by cultural exports like, e.g., anime. So yeah, unsure about China's feelings on Kaijus.
@Antonio Gramsci Your comment is needlessly hostile. You picked a good target b/c I'm good natured and won't retaliate with vitriol, but you also picked a bad target because - let's be real - there's nothing in my comment which suggests lack of familiarity with the politics, history and culture of China. Have you considered that you don't know enough about Quebec? Read the Tin Flute. It does a good job illustrating the hardships endured by the people of Quebec in English dominated Canada early on in the country's history, explaining in many ways the resentment passed down through generations. Given the cruelty, many quite fairly considered their nation to be a colony of Canada, rather than simply another province within the nation of Canada. Many still do, largely due to intergenerational trauma. Canada itself - via the constitution act of 1982 (or was it 81?) recognizes them as a "nation within a nation." Especially given its own history with partial colonization under imperial Japan, there are parallels to be drawn for sure. Perhaps there are better comparisons, but it's a pretty good example to use if you're speaking to a Canadian like Adam, for whom Quebec's deliberate cultural distancing from the rest of Canada would be a saliant issue.
Your point about the country trying more greatly to distinguish itself from the west is an interesting one. It might explain the focus (as it itself might argue) on 'public welfare' at the expense of individual liberty (i.e., restrictions on content, restrictions on gaming hours for youths, etc.), as opposed to the west where it's the other way around, but please note that my comment was regarding whether China would or wouldn't be into Kaijus, hence, that's not really relevant. That isn't to say it's not relevant in the grand scheme of things, but it does nothing to help us determine the attitude of China toward Kaijus. It's not too dissimilar from criticizing me for failing to recognize the greater eradication perpetrated against the Jewish people when I mentioned WWII. It's just not important for understanding the material in question.
Why are they playing barracuda. Those aren’t sharks lol
Shut up, Meg 2: The Trench.
Yeah, the megalodon was prehistoric, but more Ice Age prehistoric than Jurassic Park prehistoric. Not that it matters in this type of movie. If you're going to make ridiculous bullshit, don't let realism get in the way. In fact, I hope the shot of the T. rex isn't a pre-credits prologue from the ancient past but a misdirect and they actually find an undersea lost world full of dinosaurs. That's the kind of high octane schlock that can elevate a bad movie to an entertaining ride.
They should’ve called it 2 Many Meg. Cowards
five seconds in and we’re supposed to believe that this shark didn’t totally just beach itself trying to eat a T-Rex that is obviously in the upmost shallow part of the water. This is not make any sense. And the fact that you don’t even see its dorsal fin, or the top part of its fukn’ head when it’s totally just in the shallow part of the water is so baffling do these people not know how big the shark was? I’m so confused the shark and the T-Rex would both be dead, because the shark would not be able to unbeach itself. 😂😂
M3GAN Is Missing 2?
This movie doesn’t take it self seriously so don’t take it seriously it’s a fun thriller that makes no sense so don’t be to harsh
Why do you care if it’s a stock scream? It just looks like a fun movie. No need to pick it to death
Will they have a cheesy forced romantic relationship again?
Also holy smokes, i thought the same thing about the shallow beach in the beginning. It’s always so weird that people don’t notice that!!
I mean, literally the shot before that is showing that the beach is right at the peak of a seacliff that drops off into deep water. It is explicitly not a shallow beach.
@@DrFrazzle I just rewatched the trailer to make sure. It does show the water going deeper, but not as deep to fit a Megalodon (imo).
The Meg errupts directly behind the T-rex, which was standing in the middle of the shallow water instead of on the edge of the cliff.
I don't get how the Meg wouldn't beach itself doing this. On one hand I would think it got back into the water, because its body was that huge so it could use it as a leverage effect to push itself back in. But on the other hand, then it contradicts the fact it would fit in that "deeper" part. Because it's even bigger than the part that is shown while coming out of the water.
Adam needs to relax on this 4K obsessed bender.
This looks like if the first Meg movie had a baby with Jurassic Park and Cosmic Sin. I know this isn’t meant to be taken seriously, but did we really need a sequel to (as YMS once said) one of the most uninspired scripts ever written?
Adum's "Jason Statham" voise is kinda funny
Why do Chinese people swim in hundred foot deep water? Even the most crowded beach has swimmers staying within sight of the beach.
I’m a long-time fan of Your Trailer Sucks
I can at least appreciate them heavily leaning into the camp with the sequel (though imma be honest....some of these shots are still cheesy as fuck). With that being said.....you can TELL with the 1st movie they didn't / couldn't kill off too many Chinese characters at the beach (isn't the only one-screen death from the guy in the bubble from that beach scene?) ....but the moment we get a bunch of white people they go "Okay, we aren't going to piss off Chinese viewers if we treat the Americans like meat bags while giving all our Chinese main characters plot armor" XD.
Didnt megalodons eat things like whales? Wouldn't humans be too small to be worth hunting?