History Film / TheMeg

** Later at the beach, a swimmer climbs up a raft and saw something that made him say "Oh my god". We cut to some bikini girls on another raft across from them.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The poster exaggerates the size of the Megalodon quite a bit, making it seem to be the size of a blue whale when it's actually the equivalent size of a modern whale shark.

It was released on August 10, 2018. A sequel titled ''Film/Meg2TheTrench'', which is based on the second book in the series, is in production with Ben Wheatley directing and set to be released on August 4, 2023.

* NonIndicativeTitle: [[spoiler:The title's use of "The" suggests that the protagonists confront a single Megalodon; in fact, they kill ''one'' of them halfway through the film, which is then eaten by a second, ''bigger'' shark.]]
* OhCrap: Many, many examples -- most notably when [[spoiler: Jonas' torpedo malfunctions just as he's angered the meg enough to start charging at him]].

** [[spoiler:The large group of sharks that show up near the end to attack and eat the bleeding and weakened megalodon; by simply following their instincts, they remove a major threat to humanity at sea, the ocean’s ecosystem and save Jonas from a watery grave.]]

** The giant squid that's destroying Suyin's sub receives the end of this when the meg swims out of the darkness and devours it.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology (also overlaps with the above):

** Early on, our heroes encounter the remains of a ship destroyed by the meg. When they see several shark corpses with their fins chopped off floating around, they realize the ship belonged to fishermen who harvested shark fins for soup and react with disgust at their actions. Heller even states the meg pretty much avenged the deaths of all those sharks.

* TheCavalry: [[spoiler: Taylor specifically makes the megalodon bleed to attract a horde of hammerhead, great white, tiger, and bull sharks to gang up on it and kill it.]]
* ChekhovsGun: In the scene where Morris is given a tour of the underwater observatory by Minway and Suyin, he sees a group of humpback whales swimming just outside the windows and comments that it's as if they're there on cue. Suyin then admits that she uses a whale signal to lure them here in order to impress Morris. [[spoiler:Later in the film, Suyin uses the same whale signal to lure the second Megalodon away from the crowded beach, as Megalodons eat humpback whales, so that they can take it down without worrying about casualties.]]

* ItOnlyWorksOnce: [[spoiler:The plan to kill the first megalodon with poison works, but isn't repeated with the second one. Justified, as it is ''far'' larger and stronger than the first, and their attempt to kill the first one still nearly got multiple people killed.]]

* SwallowedWhole: Given the sheer size of the megalodon, a few characters end up experiencing this.

* {{Megalodon}}: The whole premise of the film is that surviving specimens of these giant prehistoric sharks are still around and ready to play merry hell with the world's oceans.

* ThreateningShark: Take a wild guess. [[spoiler: Subverted with the various "normal-sized" sharks that appear at the end to devour the dying Megalodon.]]

** In relation to the above, the vast majority of sharks and their relatives don't live in the deepest part of the ocean, with the exception of certain species such as chimaeras (a closely related family of fish to the sharks, one that diverged almost 400 million years ago) and sleeper sharks. Scientists are not entirely sure why (it may have something to do with their physiology), but sharks and their relatives appear to have a depth limit compared to bony fish and invertebrates. Which means it'd be impossible for not just a Megalodon but ANY shark to live in the depths portrayed in the film.

It was released on August 10, 2018. A sequel titled ''Meg 2: The Trench'', which is based on the second book in the series, is in production with Ben Wheatley directing and set to be released on August 4, 2023.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Very much one to 1990s underseas action films such as ''Film/DeepRising'' and ''Film/DeepBlueSea.''

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* Nightmare Fuel: "There's a monster outside...and it's watching us."

''The Meg'' is a 2018 {{Science Fiction}} {{Action|Genre}} {{Kaiju}} film directed by Jon Turteltaub and written by Dean Georgaris, Jon Hoeber, James Vanderbilt, and Erich Hoeber. It is based on the [[ThreateningShark killer shark genre]] novel ''[[Literature/{{Meg}} Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror]]'' by Steve Alten, and stars Creator/JasonStatham, Creator/LiBingbing, Creator/RainnWilson, Creator/RubyRose, Winston Chao, and Cliff Curtis.

* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: Downplayed; Jonas and Heller does chest compressions while Jonas gives her the KissOfLife, and she's then shown waking up later on, so we're not shown what else was done to revive her.

* HehHehYouSaidX: When the first submarine with Lori at the helm reaches the thermocline, Toshi and the Wall laugh their asses off about the prospect of "penetrating" the icy layer below them. Lori calls them out on their immature behavior, [[ActuallyPrettyFunny but is clearly amused herself]] and proceeds to run with it right in her next radio call to Mana One.

** Pippin the dog could be a reference to the devoured Pippet in ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', as that canine's name is often thought to be Pippin.
** In the same way, the bratty child that begs his mother to go into the water until she reluctantly accepts could be a reference to Alex Kintner, the boy with the yellow air-bed in ''Film/{{Jaws}}''. [[spoiler: Fortunately, it ends MUCH better for him.]]

** Something minor that most Shark movies tend to overlook, look at the sharks body during the movie, you will notice little tiny fish attached to the shark, this is something certain fish actually do, called Remora or suckerfish, who eat sharks leftovers or sometimes the parasites on sharks essentially being a shark cleaner.
** The megalodon is relatively docile while swimming near the beach full of people, seeming more curious than anything. Then everyone sees it and panics. That many creatures making movements like prey in distress promptly causes it to go completely berserk and enter a feeding frenzy, as a real shark would. Even then, it mostly targets larger "prey", like the rafts, rather than piddly little individual swimmers. In real life, sharks have poor eyesight and the megalodon most likely mistook the raft full of screaming people as one big animal. While individual swimmers were merely collateral damage during the hunt.