Megamind

I just finished watching Megamind, like literally a minute ago, hopefully things will stay fresh.

I have a plan to write a review that compares Megamind with Despicable Me, but finding the words for this blogging thing is much more difficult than I anticipated. I blame the five years of University essays, my prose just isn't what it used to be. So I will give you my initial thoughts on Megamind, and a wonderfully amazing post comparing it to the other villian-turned-good cartoon that came out this year.

I realize that the title of my blog has the word "fart" in it, and my first review is on a cartoon, I will try to up the mature ante in the future.

In the simplest of thoughts, it was a cute movie. The story and the characters were predictable (who came up with these formulas anyways?) Two things I didn't see coming were that Metro Man was still alive (though I should have known that because the commercials show clips of him that I hadn't seen prior to him dying) and that Titan would turn evil (which once again I should have seen coming because Megamind needed a villian to defeat so he could be a hero. I think I just like Jonah Hill so much I refused he could be anything but charming and dorky.) I guess it was an off day for me, it also doesn't help that I watched the first half of it yesterday. Excuses.

Anyways, I fell for Megamind's big green eyes as soon as I saw them, this made him automatically likeable. One source of rare-found lols in this movie came from how Megamind would occasionally put a different emphasis on words (Metro City/Metrocity). Brad Pit's Metro Man could have been anyone, he had little to add except what was needed to push the story along.

One surprise was the quality of music, every time I heard an AC/DC song I wondered how much the production company had to pay for the rights. You don't often get classic rock hits in a cartoon. The movie ended with MJ's "Bad". The dancing was cute.

You get what you expect in this movie: it's family-friendly, parents should be able to sit through it no problem, and a twenty-something took the time to both watch and write about it, so worth your time if you like this sort of movie. Despicable Me on the other hand.... I would pick it over Megamind anyday (more on that to come).

I haven't decided if I should have a sort of rating system, I think perhaps a verdict would be more fitting.

And the verdict is:

Watchable if you like movies like Happy Feet and The Incredibles