Megamind (2010 movie) review…
Minggu, 04 September 2011 by Android Blackberry
Megamind (2010 movie) review… (2010 movie) review immediately after the break…
Will Ferrell and Brad Pitt voice the poor guy along with the superhero in an entertaining animation
Last month, we had an animated household comedy known as Despicable Me, a passable but derivative entertainment about a super-villain going more than towards the side of goodness. Now comes Megamind, based on approximately the same idea, but appreciably funnier and additional visually exciting. Will Ferrell voices Megamind, the poor guy using the huge blue head, whose battle with lantern-jawed superhero Metro-Man, voiced by Brad Pitt, brings him to a private identity crisis. Megamind has nice lines - his evil inventions contain an "illiteracy beam" and something known as "typhoon cheese". Superior stuff, up to a point, but absolutely nothing like the passion and brilliance of The Incredibles or Toy Story.
What happens when a villain is forced to become a hero? The 2010 CGI-animated movie, “Megamind,” attempts to answer that question. Unfortunately, the answer isn’t almost as entertaining as it could have been.
“Megamind” stars comedian Will Ferrell as the title character, a cranially-enhanced blue humanoid from one more globe a la “Superman” who, in contrast to the son of Jor-El, spends his upbringing in a prison rather then on a midwestern farm.
Megamind turns to evil just as speedily as chin-endowed Metro Man (voiced by Brad Pitt) turns to great, having been brought up in a Batman-esque setting without having the portion exactly where his parents are gunned down after a screening of “Zorro.” Defender of Metro City, Metro Man is every single bit like “Superman” with out the intellectual property.
Getting a comedy, Megamind’s plans are habitually thwarted by Metro Man to such a degree that such nefarious schemes are now plainly predictable to his most most likely hostage, the sweet television reporter Roxanne Ritchie (voiced by Tina Fey) who has had a lengthy, supposed romance with Metro Man. However, when Metro Man opens up a museum dedicated to his heroic deeds (usually with Megamind getting on the small business finish of them), Megamind achieves the unthinkable - He seemingly kills Metro Man. The event stuns every person and attempts to answer the question that most feel - What would happen if Lex Luthor really defeated Superman?
Or if The Joker finally murdered Batman?
With no other superhero to compete against, Megamind becomes bored and attempts to make a new superhero. Regrettably, that new superhero, a tv cameraman named Hal Stewart who has an unhealthy crush (bordering on stalking) on Roxanne, begins to take his superhero powers for granted. When Roxanne outright rejects Hal’s romantic advances later on, he becomes an enraged super villain who Megamind ought to reluctantly quit. Added towards the mix is Megamind’s own romantic yearnings for Roxanne when he is secretly disguised as the nerd-like Bernard and his internal struggle with regardless of whether or not he is evil immediately after all.
I honestly feel poor for Dreamworks - They have a hopeless addiction to pop culture references that dilutes any gravitas it tries to form in their story lines.
While some of them are cute in this movie (evil sidekick Minion, as an example, bears extra then a passing resemblance towards the monster in Robot Monster), a great deal of them are groan-inducing (the obvious Marlon Brando-esque portrayal, the Donkey Kong training level, the Elvis-like revelation of one of the main characters) and doesn’t carry the story forward.
One more aspect of animated movies that I increasingly dislike, Dreamworks and Pixar alike, are the use of celebrity voices when none are genuinely needed. I have to have tin ears because I couldn’t hear Will Ferrell as Megamind and could only detect the slightest hint of Brad Pitt in Metro Man. I honestly do not know a single person who looked at this film and stated to themselves, “Oh, Brad Pitt is voicing a character in this film, I’ll now go see it as a result of that and only that.” Animated movies aren't live-action movies - The actors have small creative control over their performances as opposed to live action exactly where you see and hear the actors unfiltered.
Why studios must inflate their budgets by hiring well-known and highly-priced actors when equally (and, normally, more so) talented but infinitely more affordable voice actors go scrounging for jobs is a characteristic of Hollywood that will usually elude me. I’d enjoy it if, for once, the actors secretly have their names utilised in an animated movie but voice actors are the ones who actually read the lines after which see if the public catches on.
Cute moments abound in this film (for instance when Roxanne, as a hostage, interrupts the cliched bickering of Metro Man and Megamind) but, like the Frankenstein’s monster, the sum of the parts are less then the parts individually. Getting a villain breed a superhero had good prospective but, in this movie, it falls flat when it have to compete having a sub-plot into whether or not Metro Man was actually killed or not. Metro Man, as a character, is practically wasted since his ultimate resolution falls flat. Wouldn’t it have been bolder if he had essentially been killed for actual?
The movie is rated PG following all. The whole sub-plot of producing a brand new superhero could have been streamlined if Metro Man had a sidekick who turned evil instead, shaving useful minutes off of that sub-plot to add to more of the main plot of fighting a brand new super villain… Or if the evil sidekick of Megamind turned superior? Or if Roxanne wasn’t as sweet and innocent as she’s portrayed but, additional like modern newscasters, is far more promotionally savvy then is given credit towards?
That’s ultimately the problem with “Megamind” - There’s a great deal of wasted opportunity in this film exactly where the sides are flipped and evil ought to be very good. In a film exactly where the question of what's evil and what exactly is very good must be raised, neither of these questions are seriously addressed nor are they answered. Titan, the substitute superhero, is in fact more of a villain then Megamind since his “evil” is far more of a significant and emotional nature (almost an Anakin Skywalker-ish evil) then Megamind’s shallowly humorous megalomania.
Instead of usually being defeated, why not have Megamind obtain victories but that they are often massive in his mind but small in actual scale, like switching all of the coffee in the city from common to decaf - Serious to him but absolutely nothing extra then a harmless inconvenience in reality?
“Megamind” is harmless sufficient in small five to 10 minute doses but, taken as a whole, falls far short of a fully-fleshed out movie. It feels extra like a comedy sketch that goes on for far longer then the material allows.
