Megamind [Blu-ray]

Incredibly underrated movie. It's cute, funny, and has a great lesson: You are who you choose to be. I can be picky about movies, but I cannot come up with one bag thing to say about this one. Even the music is great. Great for kids, entertaining for adults (and not in the, "Let's slip in an adult joke kids won't notice" way) ***** SPOILERS ***** First character I talked about with my kids: the "hero." Sure, he's saved Metro City countless times, but that doesn't mean he wants to; people just expect him to. He felt so trapped with no one to talk to that he faked his own death. He was popular, but he didn't have any actual friends. Maybe if he had one person to talk to, things would have been different. The female is interesting. She's not the usual "Damsel in distress" type, but neither is she overboard with the "I don't need a man." She seems like a real person, and they subtly point out that the big jock type doesn't do it for her; she wants someone with substance. People assume she's in a relationship with the "hero," but she finds him boring. Hal is a wonderful example of why not everyone has great ability; some people shouldn't, or the power will go to their heads. This is a great thing to talk about with kids. It's easy to say, "Oh, if I had money, I would..." or "If I were a great athlete, I would..." but maybe you don't have those things because you couldn't handle it. It made my oldest take a good look into himself and really think. Finally, Megamind. Megamind is the perfect illustration that you can born into certain circumstances, look a certain way, and be told your whole life one thing, but that doesn't define who you are. You are who you choose to be. Megamind failed at everything he did, trying to fit into the mold other people had cast for him. When he broke out and was his true self, he was amazing, and people loved him for it. Seriously, this movie is not your usual Dreamworks movie. We need more like this.

Good movie Good quality

I don't seem to be making it to the theaters as often as I once did. So that's why I missed Megamind in theaters. But I caught it on DVD this last weekend, and I absolutely loved it. Our story starts on a distant planet that is about to be destroyed. Two parents quickly send their infant son into space, hoping he will survive. But he isn't alone. Another baby from a nearby planet is also on his way to a new home. The two land on Earth, where Metro Man (voiced by Brad Pitt) lands in the home of a rich couple while Megamind (Will Ferrell) lands in a prison. The two grow up and grow into arch nemeses, which Metro Man always winning their battles and reporter Roxanne Ritchie (Tina Fey) getting caught in the middle. Stop me if you've heard this one before. While the previews had looked promising, I figured it was a spoof on Superman. There was certainly that element to the story early on, but things took an unexpected turn about a third of the way into the story. To be honest, I really had no idea where they were going with things for a while, although I did guess the final parts early. So, while I will say that there are predictable elements, I actually thought parts of this movie were pretty original. Of course, even if it were predictable, I would have enjoyed the movie because it was so funny. They manage to mock super heroes and villains pretty well in this film. I watched it with a friend, and we were both dying at some of the jokes. Even his wife, who isn't into super heroes as much, thought it was very funny. Both Metro Man and Megamind are over the top as characters, which only adds to the humor of the piece. Normally, I avoid Will Ferrell films because I just don't find him that funny. This movie proves that, given the right material, he can be great. I got over the fact that he was the main character in just a couple of minutes and sat back and enjoyed the film. It helped that all the actors did a great job of creating new characters with their voices. I usually find it very distracting when I recognize a voice in an animated film unless their character is very strong. Here, not only were the characters strong, but the actors made their voices different enough that I never would have recognized them. The animation is good, but it's nothing spectacular. While Pixar always has a shot or two that catches my breath, this one didn't have any. In fact, things were stylized. Again, it wasn't distracting at all, but if you want something mega realistic or beautiful, you won't find it here. What you will find is a funny movie that will make you laugh from start to finish. If you've missed Megamind, correct that oversight today.

BEST MOVIE EVER!!!! My roommate had never seen this movie but had been hearing me quote from it all year. It was totally worth it to buy because this movie is amazing!

I've seen this movie four times in two weeks. The last time I loved a movie enough to watch it that many times was in 1987, at the age of 13. I'm 37 now, and much more critical about quality in movies than I was then, and I tell you now that Megamind is a brilliant film. They Got It Right. This movie incorporates the best elements that we've all seen before, remarkably few flaws, and turns out a hilarious, intelligent movie with a lot of heart. And kid-safe, too, although adults will get a lot more of the in-jokes. First, the humor. This movie is just plain fun to watch! Just the right balance between silly-slapstick and witty irony, lots of hilarious one-liners, references to other sci-fi films and comics, and, rare for an animated film, tiny subtle shifts in body language that betray what a character is thinking without any words necessary. Next, the characters. All five of the main characters have a surprising amount of depth, making it easy to empathize with them, in part due to the gorgeous animation and incredibly realistic facial expressions. Megamind in particular has very expressive eyebrows, and you can literally see wrinkles appear in his forehead when he's upset, or smile lines in his cheeks when he gives that irrepressibly gleeful grin of his...you can't help but love him. The Story: Megamind begins the movie as a mischievous, fun-loving, blue-skinned alien super-genius with a crush on pixie-haired reporter Roxanne Ritchi, (whose cameraman, Hal, also has his sights set on her) and a love of playing "the game" with the other (human-looking) resident alien, Metroman. Metroman is not the typical Superman clone he appears to be at the beginning, either. Having been raised in the city prison, Megamind is inexperienced, almost innocent, about many things in the outside world, which is one more reminder for us of his outsider status despite his being culturally of Earth. His only companion is his best friend Minion, a loyal fish sent with him to Earth who wears a robot gorilla suit. The Twist: When Megamind unexpectedly wins the "game", he is at a loss. A surprise meeting with Roxanne while in disguise as a handsome museum curator abruptly changes the course of his life (and this movie!) Megamind experiences a phenomenal amount of character growth, a coming-of-age that is rife with hilarious zaniness and agonizing drama with a show-stopper finale ends on an incredibly satisfying note. There are several extras you'll want to check out; all the standard stuff plus a sweet-sad deleted scene, an animated comic book that lets you see some of the past battles between Megamind and Metroman, and a 16-minute short adventure (Button of Doom, either included on the Blu-ray or make sure to get the DVD set that has it!), set after the movie that has Megamind hilariously battling one of his own inventions! Gorgeous animation: The sheer amount of rich detail in this film make it worth watching many times. I highly recommend the Blu-ray, though, I watched a dvd version and you couldn't make out details like young Megamind's sheepish, sad-yet-hopeful smile in the class picture. And unlike several other reviewers, I didn't notice any aliasing at all, and I looked for it. All the characters have such tender attention to detail, including fingerprints, realistic freckles, and eyes that reflect different colors from the sources of light around them. I'm not a fan of weapon design, but Megamind's De-gun (a ray gun that has multiple functions, including dehydrating animate objects instantly so they shrink into small cubes) has what looks like decorative bronze insets in graceful curves, truly lovely to behold. The glass catwalks in the museum are beautiful, too. Who won't care for Megamind? In middle of the film is light on action and things blowing up, as Megamind learns to care for Roxanne while developing a plan centered around Hal, which could bore some die-hard action fans or young children. I also appreciate the lessons taught: The choices you make control your destiny, not fate. Intelligence will win out over brawn. Prejudice is wrong and unfair. Forgiveness. Redemption. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade...or giant robots!

I liked this movie a lot to begin with; I hadn't seen it in theaters, but bought the 2d blu-ray after I had rented it. I recently bought a new 3D TV and rewatched the original just to test the picture and figured that it would be great in 3D, so I decided to buy this version too. I just finished watching it and I'm not the least bit regretful of my purchase. I have a few other 3D movies on Blu-ray (including Hugo) at this point and this one doesn't disappoint in the least. I originally only intended to watch a few minutes of this before going to bed, but couldn't stop. The 3D added a depth in every scene which wasn't in the original blu-ray that I'd bought and it felt like I was watching it again for the first time (as lame as that sounds). If you're a fan of this movie and have a 3D TV or are thinking of buying one, I recommend this purchase...you can always watch the 2D version of it if you want and it'll be one of the best 3D movies that you'll own. As for the movie itself, I obviously really enjoyed it...almost on the same level as The Incredibles. It's hilarious, got a good story, the animation is top-notch and the 3D definitely adds to the experience.

Megamind is something of a mix, but a good one. On the one hand, it takes the existing traditional tropes of comic-book superhero and supervillain and works within them, but at the same time it ventures into territory that one rarely sees, going one step beyond the traditional to answer two questions: (1) What really makes a supervillain truly 'bad'? and (2) What happens when the supervillain unexpectedly wins? The film starts off with a traditional hook - Megamind apparently falling to his doom - and then flashes back to the beginning, with the origins of the two classic protagonists, superhero Metro Man and supervillain Megamind, each sent out as an infant in a spacepod from their respective doomed homeworlds. From there, however, things begin to take a twist. Megamind is the supervillain, but more from bad luck than anything else (Metro Man's pod lands in a mansion where he is adopted by rich parents who give him everything, Megamind's pod on the other hand lands in a penitentiary where he is adopted by the inmates). Megamind doesn't become a supervillain so much out of evil as much as lack of options, his main talent apparently being wreaking havoc and scaring the hell out of people. He and Metro Man become enemies/rivals in a series of confrontations where, in Megminds own words "Our battles quickly got more elaborate. He would win some, I would ALMOST win others!". And, in classic comic-book tradition, a plucky news reporter, Roxanne Ritchie, and her hapless and socially inept camerman, Hal Stewart, are always on the scene when one of Megamind's schemes unfolds, with the result that Roxanne gets abducted so many times that it becomes almost routine ("Alligators, yeah, mm-hmm. I was thinking about it on the way over..."). But things take an unexpected twist when, in spite of all the glitches, Megamind's scheme actually works and Metro Man is apparently destroyed, leaving only a skeleton bearing his cape behind. At first Megamind is ecstatic, but after only a few days the supervillian finds himself at a loss as to what to do next. What _does_ a supervillain do when he has no superhero to challenge or to be challenged by? In his existiential angst, Megamind unexpectedly ends up talking to Roxanne, albeit disguised as Bernard, a museum attendent at the Metro Man Museum. From her, he gets the inspiration to create a new superhero to restore the balance in his life. Unfortunately his plan goes hideously awry when the recipient of his superhero formula turns out to be Hal, Roxanne's inept and all too flawed camerman. And once again the story turns back to the question of just what makes a supervillain truly bad. Hal isn't evil per se, but he is lazy, petulant, completely self-centered and prone to tantrums when he doesn't get his way. Highly destructive tantrums once he discovers that he, as the intended new superhero Titan, has powers that put him beyond anyone else's control. Jonah Hill as the voice of Hal/Titan manages to perfectly bring out these serious flaws in Titan's character that result in Titan becoming a far more menacing threat to society than the ostensibly 'evil' Megamind ever was. Craftsmanship-wise, everything in Megamind works well. The animation is colorful and eye-catching, the character design superb, and the voice actors distinctive and entertaining (Will Ferrell as Megamind, Brad Pitt as Metro Man, Tina Fey as Roxanne Ritchie, Jonah Hill as Hal Stewart/Titan, and David Cross as Minion). There are also a lot of references and in-jokes worked in, some fairly obvious (Minion's exo-suit with the diving helmet head and gorilla-like body are a direct take from the classicly-bad scifi film Robot Monster) and fairly subtle (the museum attendant Bernard is voiced by Ben Stiller, who played a museum guard named Bernard in the two Night At The Museum movies). Though the film was released at the theaters in 3D, you won't miss a thing seeing it on a DVD. Quite frankly, the whole 3D thing is a waste in most movies that have come out with it and Megamind is no exception. Highly recommended for anyone who enjoys good animation with entertaining characters and story.

If you're on the I-net you can almost find out everything you want to know about a movie. And I think the only people buying this DVD are folks who already love the film. But if you at least want an opinion, I'll tell you what I thought: I found this movie charming, sweet, funny, and not scary (like some kids' animated films can be) unless someone gets freaked out by the one scene with the skull on the floor. But even that was silly. Megamind became evil because he was always sort of rejected at school. And everything he did to try and help or be a good guy always went badly. He finally decided that the only thing he was good at was being bad. But, apparently, he was not too great at that either since he always lost in the end. His... er... unique sidekick, Minion (a fish in a bowl connected to a giant robot gorilla body) is as lovable as poor Megamind. I am writing this review to try and be helpful, but I've found that everyone's taste in movies is like their taste in food: What one person absolutely loves, another may find impossible to swallow. By no means is Megamind hard to swallow (although I did find myself "choking" on the movie, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs), and I cannot imagine anyone not liking this movie, but you just never know. If anyone remembers the Disney film, The Little Mermaid, you must remember Ursula the Witch. Remember how scary she was? I had brought my 3-year-old to see a happy little movie and was incredibly surprised that they put such a scary image in an otherwise delightful and harmless movie. You won't get surprised like that by this film. However, if your child might be freaked out by little flying robots with steel chompers (Megamind's pets) just be warned. They only appear for a few seconds 2 or 3 times in the movie.

I am not a big fan of animated movies but this one was entertaining and a joy to watch. Even my step-grandson liked it a lot.

Ce film est une vrai perle et je me demande encore pourquoi il a fait un tel flop et reçu de si mauvaises critiques. À vrai dire, on avait déjà eu le cas avec Happy feet... Si vous avez connu les séries animées de super héros (je pense en particulier à la série Batman de la Warner), vous apprécierez les références ironiques qui ponctuent ce film. Si vous en êtes resté aux Tom & Jerry ou autres Fous du volant, vous apprécierez (en tous cas ça m'a fait un bien fou) qu'on prenne à contrepied le manichéisme habituel de ces animés en montrant un "super-héros" (copie de superman) aussi imparfait et criticable que n'importe qui. Les personnages sont attachants, drôles, et de nombreux ressorts scénaristiques sont inattendus. Jusqu'aux dernières séquences, vous pourrez être surpris, attendri ou amusé. Un film auquel il faut donner sa chance, d'autant plus si vous avez trouvé que certains grands succès du box office (Shrek, Madagascar, ...) manquaient de profondeur.

La pelicula esta genial y es 3D fantástico. Castellano 100% , no esta en latino como Bold. Aconsejable sin duda alguna.

Megamind segna un ulteriore rilancio della Dreamworks: è un film che si pone ad un livello più elevato dei precedenti (anteriori, per intenderci, a Dragon Trainer), con un'ironia non banale né demenziale, che si appresta ad una sana risata. La storia non è scontata ed è un soggetto molto singolare. Un film che di sicuro divertirà la famiglia, e che verrà apprezzato sia dai giovani (impossibile non provare simpatia per i personaggi come Megamind e Minion) sia dai grandi (i quali riconosceranno molte citazioni a diversi film). Graficamente è magnifico (si avvicina agli alti livelli della Pixar, evidenziando così la nuova tendenza della Dreamworks a storie più studiate e films più curati), con un'animazione curata e particolareggiata nelle scene; il doppiaggio lo apprezzo molto, con voci azzeccate per i personaggi e una recitazione impressionante (devo dire che batte il doppiaggio originale), una colonna sonora che emoziona. Per quanto riguarda l'edizione: - Per il video nulla da ridire, se non rimarcare la qualità e i colori della grafica, rese perfettamente nell'edizione Blu-Ray - Per il comparto audio, pur essendo in lingua originale Dolby True HD 7.1, in Italiano è ancora Digital 5.1 (a differenza di edizioni di altri films d'animazione), ma non preclude l'immersione sonora nel film, che si gode comunque strepitosamente. - Per i contenuti, ne troverete di tutte i colori: oltre al cortometraggio originale allegato al film, ci sono scene eliminate, dietro alle quinte nel lavoro di animazione delle scene, un videofumetto... Insomma, se siete appassionati troverete molte informazioni e curiosità. Se siete appassionati del genere di animazione non potete lasciare Megamind inosservato: vi catturerà con i personaggi, la storia, l'animazione. Inoltre, il prezzo e la spedizione Amazon sono sempre impeccabili! Un megafilm consigliato per un megadivertimento.

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