OK. I've seen the Meg again. Being a big monster nut I'll give any old mega beast a whirl and the Meg is mega.
Like Rampage the lead actor, in this case Jason Stathan, tries to out-muscle the monster for screen presence but its not possible is it really when the monster is a Megalodon.
The story is as schmalzy as a melting sweet but that aside I loved the giant shark footage. Meg really is a gigantic fish and because of its size the camera can perform those wonderfully long pass-by's as the creature glides past.
The stand-out scenes for me are where the shark is pitted against frogman Stathan as they face-off underwater. It reminds me of those beautiful illustrations of skin divers encountering sharks in old comics like Look and Learn and those fabulous encyclopedias we all used to have.
The scene where the Meg stares at the kid through the marine base window is pretty cool too and hints at older flicks like Jaws 3 and The Abyss. I have to say there's a lot of Jaws in the Meg generally including lots of chum.
I couldn't see any specific Meg toys online but there are schoals of big plastic Megalodons out there.
The sheer size of the Meg recalled the vast presence in an old TV series I caught one year called Surface. It too had a giant undersea beast and I thought it was great. Sadly the show was cut for some reason. Do you remember Surface?
The Meg is also awesome as it stars Jason Statham!!
ReplyDeleteCheers, Tony P
Yeah, he's OK Tony. I remember his debut in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. He's come a long way since then!
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