Ferrell is excellent in the title character and Tina Fey is feisty but lovable as Roxanne. (SPOILER: We're also lead to believe a character dies when we see an explosion and a resultant skeleton afterwards, but it's later revealed as being a faked death and that character survived). When Megamind battles another character in the film's climax, there's incredible amounts of damage done to the city. Most of the violence, and there's quite a bit of it, is the kind you'd expect from a superhero genre type film or other animated action films. There's no sexual content, aside from persistent flirting from Hal and a brief kiss between two other characters, and the rest can be chalked up to violence. Additionally, the song "Highway to Hell" is played in part and may offend some viewers. The "language" is limited to two uses of "freakin'" (as a profanity substitute) by the character Hal, and a use of "Good Lord" by Metro Man and two somewhat distorted uses of "God" (like "Oh my God") by Megamind. The content in Megamind is definitely milder than the MPAA rating suggests. It actually works quite well in both films in very different ways. Like Despicable Me, it sort of uses the "evil" intentions of the villain as fodder for humor, but ultimately highlights the character's misguided heart as the source and then focuses on outside influences guiding them to make the right decisions. Even his minion - a talking fish in a glass bowl - is cute despite his "evil" nature. The guy had an awful upbringing and his charm makes it difficult to hate him. This film sets up Megamind very well as a villain we sympathize with. It's actually not too far off from this year's Despicable Me, which also centered around a villain who eventually turned good. However, Ferrell's comedic take on the central character helps lighten the mood. And with the focus being on Megamind's pursuit of evil, there's an overall dark tone to the film. There's quite a bit of cartoon violence - even hinting at death at times (SPOILER ALERT: I don't think anyone actually dies in this movie). That's not to say kids wouldn't enjoy it, but this isn't your typical film for the kiddies. One thing Megamind definitely isn't is a children's film. That's the kind of humor that Megamind embraces, and while most of the humor isn't frequent laugh-out-loud funny, much of the film is just downright clever - and almost entirely unpredictable - and that's just so refreshing. even though Ferrell even gives the character a similar lisp to Brando's Godfather. It's something the parents watching Megamind might get, but it's relatively obscure. There's even a key scene midway through this film where Megamind takes on the image of an older man with white hair that takes a deliberate physical likeness to Marlon Brando's portrayal of Superman's Krypton father in Superman The Movie (1978). Also, like Lois Lane, Superman is always having to save Roxanne Ritchi (a reporter, too, like Lois) from the villain. Aside from the fact that Metro Man is a much more egocentric version of the beloved superhero, his home is "Metro City," which sounds strikingly similar to Superman's home, Metropolis. One can actually draw quite a few comparisons to the Superman universe when looking at Megamind. But Megamind is unlike any supehero story we've seen yet, and although the film delivers several inside spoofs on the Superman universe, the film mostly sticks to its own world with its own rules, delivering an often funny, often unique take on the superhero genre. Given a similar start to life as the familiar story of Superman, Megamind's nemesis, Metro Man, is also a Superman-like hero who has been able to foil all of Megamind's evil plans since their rivalry began. With all of the origin stories of how heroes became heroes, DreamWorks Animation decided to tell the tale of how a villain became a villain and then a hero in their latest animated feature, Megamind. Movie Reviews (Main) > Movie Reviews (Main).Indie Reviews (Main) > Indie Reviews (Main).
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