Megamind Review
This is the story about Megamind (Will Ferrell), a brilliant but unsuccessful supervillain. Megamind wanted nothing more than to conquer Metor City, but failed at every attempt, because of his arch nemesis and superhero Metro Man (Brad Pitt). During one of Megaminds evil attempts to conquer the city, he actually kills Metro Man. Megamind’s dream has finally come true, but he realizes that not having a superhero to fight makes his life pointless and boring. So he decides to create a new opponent and hero. The only problem is that this new hero would rather be a villain than a good guy. So now Megamind has to decide how to handle his new creation.
Rating: Four out of five buckets
Release Date: February 25, 2011
MPAA Rating: PG
Best Age Group: Any age
Sexual Content: None
Violent Content: Moderate
Crude or Profane Language: None
Drugs and Alcohol Content: None
Talking Points:
This is a fun entertaining movie with a lot of good messages. Megamind had a rough childhood, he was very unattractive, not popular, and he was always picked last in school sports. As an adult he started to think that the only thing he’d be good at would to become an evil villain, and conquer the world. He eventually realizes that none of that matters, and that, “You shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover.”
Another message that Roxanne (Tina Fay), the cute TV reporter says, “As long as there is evil, good will stand up to it.” She also said, “The bad guy never gets the girl.”
Megamind said, “We never know how good we have it, until it’s gone.”
Violent Content:
There are a lot of action scenes with many fights, and explosions. Megamind shrinks people to small cubes with a freeze-drying ray gun. He has some other scary looking weapons. This may frighten some kids.
Profanity:
No profanity, not even potty humor that are typically in animated films.
I didn’t like Brad Pitt in an animated movie, he’s better on the screen. However, Will Ferrell and Tina Fay were great.
I interviewed kids ages 3 to 5 after the movie. Some comments were; “It was awesome, I loved it, It was so funny.” A mom told me that she loved the messages in the movie.
To sum things up, parents laughed, kids were quiet, and Brad Pitt didn’t get the girl…..this was a good movie!
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