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Starring Saturday Night Alumni Will Ferrell and Tina Fey in the two lead roles, Megamind
is a familiar blend of films we've seen before... mixing together elements from "The Incredibles"
and "Despicable Me" for a surprisingly exciting 96-minutes. Ferrell stars in the title role,
as an evil supervillian who finds himself hopelessly lost after he finally kills his
crime-fighting nemesis, Metroman. Not one to sit around and rule Metrocity, which he
mistakenly refers to as me-trocity, with an evil fist... he instead decides to create
his own hero, to give him someone to fight against. Tiny Fey voices local news reporter
Roxanne Ritchi, and portrays her Lois-Lane, damsel-in-distress character with a hilarious
amount of unaffected sarcasm over her constant kidnappings, at one point even requesting
that her "frequent kidnapping card" be stamped. Only to be disappointed when Megamind informs
her that they've since "discontinued that program". The film showcases the interesting,
and often untold perspective of the villain... exploring the "what-if" scenario of the bad
guys actually winning. By the second act though, the film quickly descends back to a comfort-zone
of familiarity, becoming just another animated adventure film of good verses evil. Luckily
though, the action and comedy never let up throughout the film, which besides thoroughly
keeping my attention, did enough to distract me from the predictable plot. All of the characters
here receive a good deal of depth, and their real-world-counterparts do a fantastic job
of bringing them to life with their respective performances. The film is funny too... and
just not because of the slapstick humor you've seen a dozen times in the trailer, but rather
from some refreshingly witty and clever lines of dialogue that certainly bring this movie
above the bar of mediocrity. It's an exciting, and gorgeously animated film that deserves
to seen in Bluray if possible. Dreamworks isn't yet on par with Pixar, but this film
is perhaps the closest they've come in recent memory. "Megamind", "Refreshing family fun,
if formulaic." Well, that's what I thought of the film - so let's see what you had to
say in the YouTube comments.
The rate-o-matic now to share how we rated "Megamind", ... and SEVEN and an EIGHT. This
is perhaps Dreamworks Animations' best film in years... but it's also very predictable
- I thought it was COOL. Most of you really enjoyed this film, able to overlook some of
it's shortcomings, scoring it A GREAT.