Meg 2: The Trench reviews - Gleefully Jumping the Shark is Bigger and Better 

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Five years ago, Jason Statham met a shark. Many sharks and very large.

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Prehistoric creatures secretly living in an undiscovered ecosystem beneath the deep-sea thermocline.

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Statham's meeting with these animals resulted in the subject of the 2018 film The Meg.

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So Statham is returning to pale-gray waters for a second attempt to charm us.

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The Meg 2: The Trench was released in cinemas on 5August.

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One problem with the first film, directed by John Turteltaub, was that it didn't do enough exploration of the strange biomes at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

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Joe Statham's marine rescuer-cum-environmental activist Jonas Taylor will be sent into the depths for some kind of giant animal adventure in the new film.

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This movie introduces us to some new species and makes fun of everything we know about oceanography.

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