The Meg: 7 Reasons It's The Best Dumb Movie Of 2018
2. The Indestructible Dog
Not too far away from that crowded beach, a couple is getting married on a luxurious boat. The couple's dog manages to escape the festivities and quickly leaps into the water, swimming a good distance away, and - inevitably - encountering the massive hungry shark.
But it doesn't end there. Meggy soon makes a beeline for the unlucky pup, and before it can reach the relative safety of its owners' boat, it's munched by the shark, and that seems like it's the end of things.
Only... it's not. The dog shows up again near the end of the film - alive, might we add - and reunites with its overjoyed, newlywed humans.
The weird thing is, everything about the dog's "death" scene indicates that it died. The chosen camera angle doesn't give the animal any hope of surviving, and the remarkable width of Meggy's bite would make it impossible for a tiny dog to not get sucked into the toothy chasm of doom approaching it. What's more, we're offered no explanation for the dog's sudden, miraculous good health. It's just alive.
Sure, maybe we're being overly cynical about this whole thing - this is a movie about an extinct species of shark fighting Jason Statham, after all. And the dog's whole saga is clearly played for laughs. But that doesn't make it any less stupid.