MOVIE REVIEW - MEGAMIND
CAST:TIM FAREEL, TINA FEY, BRAD PITT
Finally a comedy that can bring out a sincere laugh. Not the non-committal witty giggle that girls often tend to do (me included) to brighten an otherwise dull movie or to steal attention (and it's usually the latter.) I'm gonna take a detour from my usual style of writing, so bear with me while I experiment.
What's this movie about? u know the P-L-O-T!
Initially when they do the whole, superman thing -you know the boy being sent from a mysteriously cool planet to earth to fulfill his 'destiny', you think oh-boy this is goona be another crappy movie. But hold your horses cuz this movie is anything but that. It's like having a annoyingly weird friend (you know what i'm talking abt...its ok to admit .. all of us have one).. you have to let it grow on you.
So Megamind (Will Farell) after a painful childhood realises his true calling to be a super villain. He sets out to take over METROCITY and everyone knows, where there is a super villain there is always a drop dead gorgeous super hero (Brad pitt- METROMAN), with muscles rippling everywhere ( and I mean EVERYWHERE **wink wink**)
But his attempts to vanqish the hero always end in disaster, and his numerous stints in jail just fuel his desire to best Metroman. But as fate would have it, one of his "master plans" to get rid of Metroman actually works; he kidnaps Roxanne Ritchi (Tina Fey), a lois lane wannabe and the hero rushes to her rescue only to be defeated by COPPER his one weakness!! But when megamind goes "copper is your weakness , SERIOUSLY?" it's just LOL...it's the modern day kryptonite my friend...wake up!. But i feel it's jus impossible for a hero to be that built, he has got to be doped up on steroids to look like that!!
But soon Megamind reaslises that getting rid of a hero makes life that much more boring, so he decides to spice it up by creating a super hero himself. But there is a twist here, ah-ha! he falls for the lois lane wannabe and all hell breaks loose. So the insanely jealous new and improved super hero (who is in love with lois lane as well) turns into a villan. Now Megamind has no choice but to rise to the occasion, question is can he take on the new guy and live to tell the tale? Well no spoilers here, watch and find out.
the good the bad and the ugly?
Well Megamind's abnormally large head was ugly...but so was Brad pitt's less than stellar performance. I guess expectation is the mother of all disappointments.
TINA FEY- I bow to u..u r the queen of comedy. I was drawn to u like a woman is to a buck naked Jake gyllenhall (click for his pic..)
WILL FARELL- you are a comic genius! The whole man-child effect was just irresistible! you large headed blue freak of nature! wacko! your 'atrocity'es were awesum!(you'll get this wen u see the movie) The perverse reactions and spectacular super villain costumes slayed me!
DAVID CROSS- as minion, was absolutely brilliant in his understated performance
JONAH HILL - the hero turned villian TITAN was really awful. His voice was flat and boring. Simply forgettable! FYI u suck!
The cast really saved this movie from a being a flat out disaster, no doubt. This movie made fun of pretty much every super hero movie cliche. Spidy(jumping from buildings all the time!), superman (back story, beefy super hero...you know the works), batman(invisible super car)...no one was left behind. Hell there was even a lil bit of transformers in there, with the tiny bots bopping about. Once you realise what the movie is trying to do, u'll just keep on laughing. It's impossible not to like this movie. Sure it could've been better. But what was on offer wasn half bad. The animation was good, better than despicable me, the last animation movie I really enjoyed. The direction by Tom McGrath the same guy who did MADAGASKAR (yeah I still like to MOVE IT) was exceptional!
Bottomline : Megamind you deserve the key to the city!
