Mega, Mind you don't miss it

Rating: Null/10 (31 January 2011)

'Megamind' is Dreamworks latest animated film to be released into cinemas. It is a story about your typical Villain and Super-hero who constantly battle each other with the Super-hero always winning. Megamind (Ferrell) is the protagonist and the villain who repeatedly gets defeated by the heroic Metro Man (Pitt). Although this film puts a turn from what is usually the norm and gives us the story from the bad guy's perspective. The plot of 'Megamind' is that after many battles with Metro Man in which he keeps getting defeated he still comes back for another battle but this time he succeeds in destroying Metro Man (by accident). Though first pleased with his victory Megamind soon realises that his life has no purpose with no super-hero to fight. He creates another super-hero to do battle with but things go hay-wire when that super-hero Titan (Hill) goes bad and it is up to Megamind to become the good guy and save the day. This is a refreshing change to the conventional super-hero, good vs evil and allows for a more interesting storyline. Megamind is primarily a super-hero movie spoof and does to super-hero movies what Shrek did to fairy tales. Spoofs often fall flat on their face but 'Megamind' pulls it off with a good deal of comedy, it is cleverly written with some of the funniest elements of the movie being dialogue between characters, one of my favourite being between Megamind and Metro Man via a large television screen. The character of Megamind was extremely well made, he is instantly likable despite being the villain as he is a loser whose plans go wrong and makes mistakes easily. His lines are clever and funny and delivered wonderfully by Will Ferrell whose recognisable voice is instantly funny. Though Metro Man has only a small part in the film he is still a fun character being very typically super-hero. Brad Pitt's voice fits in well for the role as his voice is what you imagine a super-hero's voice to sound like. Jonah Hill as the 'dorky' cameraman and then as super-hero turned bad Titan is less funny than Metro Man and Megamind with only a few funny bits that were down to him, the rest of the time is mostly him destroying things. Tina Fey as the reporter Roxanne and the love interest of Megamind is an important character but not necessarily a funny one being mostly a character for others such as Megamind to bounce funny lines off. She is the love interest of Megamind and this 'love' sub-plot was one of the only aspects of the movie I had a problem with. Megamind is a super-hero movie spoof but fails to poke fun at this romance as there are times and especially towards the end of the movie where there moments that are not meant to be funny of romance between Megamind and Roxanne but can be exceedingly cheesy and cringey and I feel it would've been better if they had made fun at this along with the rest of the movie. Overall 'Megamind' is a fun and entertaining movie that is worth a view as it is guaranteed to get a few laughs out of you at the least a good cast brings the movie together and a clever new storyline cements over some of the relatively small flaws that the movie has.