I like how different Roxanne's two kidnappings are. When Megamind kidnaps her, she's calm and joking. Even though she's a hostage, she knows she's not in any real danger. But when Tighten did it, she's utterly terrified. It's a good contrast; it shows how while Megamind is good-natured, Hal is not
it shows how megamind was "evil" purely for the idea of being a villain, and that she knew he wouldnt hurt her while hal was unhinged and chaotic in his behavior, you dont know what to expect of someone like that, someone unfit to do anything that doesnt directly benefit himself
Yup, Megamind was kidnapping her specifically for the purpose of getting Metroman to save her, it didn't really matter if she was in real danger or not and since it didn't matter and he's not a monster she never was in danger, it was all basically a game and she knew it, so she played along.
It's even stated that he once had a promotion, where everytime he kidnapped someone, he'd stamp a card, and presumably give them something if they got enough stamps.
Megamind was never evil, he was just playing a game of cat and mouse similar to Joker and Batman. He never knew his destiny and adopted his villain role because that's the environment he grew up in.
@@2dieforThe Joker is a poor comparison. Megamind is a punch-clock villain just wanting fun; the Joker is pure evil and revels in death and destruction.
I love how Megamind was willing to let go of Roxanne after he got rejected meanwhile Hal let it get over him and consumed him completely, Megamind was raised in prison meanwhile Hal had a normal life compared to him, the fact that the alien has more manners and humanity than the human says something
I think it’s because Megamind realized that Roxanne was right about him. He did do all those horrible things she said he did and thought he would never get the girl even though he tried to be good. While Hal just thought his powers would be enough to get her to be with him without even attempting to be good. Man, this movie is so good.
The prisoners may be there for life, but they taught some decent manners. The crimes and stuff, it happens when you are surrounded by criminals, but if you are in there for life and you see a child who sees you as father figures, you'll do your best with what you are given.
I would say Metroman is still the better hero of the movie because Megamind is still immature given the fact he was the one that started the problem by giving Hal his powers but I still believe you're statement is valid, Megamind has a good spirit and is likeable because he is truthful and can change overtime.
The one thing about how Metroman faked his death was through the use of the superspeed power that Megamind didn't seem to know about. Megamind would have been SCREWWED if Titan discovered this power.
Hm, never thought about that. Megamind taught Hal everything he knew about Metroman, but Metroman never demonstrated his full capacity to Megamind because he never had to.
@@delrunplays2903Something I’ve thought for a while is that Metroman, and Megamind to an extent, never truly took the fights seriously. Don’t think the citizens did much either, since there didn’t seem to be a ton of fear of him at the beginning. Conversely, Titan was an actual threat that lead to an evacuation of the city
@@delrunplays2903 Definitely an interesting small detail I never thought of either, and is unsurprisingly another parallel to Superman. Superman is actually a lot stronger than most people think he is, to an honestly frightening degree, but he almost never willingly uses 100% of his power.
The fact that he has that type of OP power and never uses at Megamind, proves that he is just toying him around and just want to make a show for his audience.
The moment that always gets me a little is when Megamind, someone raised to embrace badness and villainy, discovers that Hal has embraced his worst impulses and can only a feel a deep sense of disappointment that someone could be given such a gift and not use it for good.
Shows that he was jealous of Metroman and all his powers, but didn’t think he was capable of being anything but the villain. He could have given himself superpowers but probably didn’t think he was “worthy”
@@justsomeguywholovesberserk6375I wish a lot of things about Raya were different. Looking at the concept art, Namaari seemed much more creepy and calculating. It would've been good to lean into that, giving her more screentime to show her loyalty to Fang, pressure from her mother, and perhaps the Druun curropting her in a way. That's what sucks about travel movies; you're showing so many places, but it cuts down the amount of screentime they get.
Fun fact: in the original trailer for Megamind his parents actually said “You are destined for greatness” which was ultimately changed to what is shown in the final release of the movie to help match the theme better.
You can still see it in the movie. The father makes the mouth movements for greatness but the hatch on Megamind’s pod closes and you don’t hear it, with him acknowledging it. “I didn’t hear that last part but it sounded important. Destined for what?”
Even "greatness" could be twisted into whatever you want. A great villain? Hero? Singer? Dancer? But it's better they left it out even though it was pretty obvious that's what he was going to say.
@@suicune2001 In Polish version His father says: _"Jestes stworzony do..."_ which sounds familiar to _"You are destinied for greatness"_ or _"great things"_
@@suicune2001I think that's kind of the point. He's destined for greatness, but whatever kind of greatness he achieves is up to him to decide. It resonates with the overall theme of the movie of self discovery and being true to yourself even if that means taking a radically different path in life than you were lead to expect by others.
People point put the stupidity of the officers dropping their guns at the sight of Megamind. I find it a genius detail showing us just how dependent on Metroman the city was
@@fairystail1 True, but also notice where their attention is. Their eyes are on him. They had to have acknowledged the robots. That much is true. But they were focused on Megamind
I love how the movie isn't just a superhero Shrek. It is about not judging people because of their looks but it also talks about all the terrible things Megamind has done and him having to fix them. - He gives everything back. - Cleans the city. (On the outside) - He defeats Hal. - He cleans and rebuilds the city for real this time. Far too often this kind of story will only focus on how mistreated the villain was and completely omit all the objectively worst things the villain has done. Shrek was just living alone and scared people when they come at him with pitchforks. The bird witch from Mulan 2020 killed and possessed people she's not redeemed just because she took an arrow in Mulan's stead.
Megamind is also about the difference of what a good person is. It is not by wealth, not by powers, not by looks, but the heart of a person. Megamind is selfless and compassionate while Hal is an entitled 'nice guy'.
I also love how it shows people can be pushed into certain roles by society even if that's not who they really are. You can gaslight someone only so much before they start to believe it themselves.
@@redpanda6497 But is it manipulation if they aren't aware of it? I don't think they intentionally set out to create a villain. They were basically just racist and projected that bias on to him.
i think its more of a mock how being a villain doesnt really ever serve a purpose, the way they showed that after winning megamind just had nothing to do, that those plans are meaningless since what does taking over the city even give you or rather, a mock of a villain whos evil purely for the sake of evil
Notice the use of color theory in the film, Metro Man uses White and Gold, Megamind uses Black and Silver to show they're polar opposites as hero and villain. Titan uses flames and angry colors to symbolize the chaotic mad man he will become, and Roxanne has the most interesting touch. When she hates Megamind at the start, her dress is Red. At the climax it becomes purple when her feelings become mixed, and the very end it is a blue dress to show her full support for him. Little details like this show how much care really went into the story.
Megamind's desaturated black, blue and silver is also the exact opposite of Titan's colour saturated white, red and gold colour scheme, which is another nice little detail. Not to mention the fact that unlike the heroes, his actual logo (the M) is only a small detail on that studded gorget of his and I can't recall if it's even on the Black Mamba mech, rather than emblazoned on his chest. and other immediately obvious areas
@@Nickipedia0 Not in the RGB colour wheel, where cyan (which is the main shade of "blue" used in Megamind) is the opposite of red. You also see most "side vs side" as red vs blue.
@@Nickipedia0 The opposite of Green is Purple. The opposite of Red is Cyan (which is as much "a blue" than a green but anyway) It's true that our brain has a filter that opposite Green and Red, preventing us from picturing a substractive mix of the two pigments (even if it's technically just dark yellow in a substractive mix o pigments, so olive and mustard brown, not that crazy). There are three filters in fact, with Light-Dark (all cones triggered or none), and Blue-Yellow(Green-Red in the same time...), this last being the same on the color wheel. And I say the actual color wheel, based on our three types of cones cells in our eyes, RGB, and their polar opposites, CMY, which determinate how we see and blend colors. Red-Cyan, Green-Magenta, Blue-Yellow. All those 6 colors form the primary-secondary colors; and yes they're both, just not in the same time. As I said, it's about blending either light or pigments (which absorbs some wavelengths and mirror the rest, hence the "substractive" inversion). So yeah, Azure is the opposite or Orange.
Imagine the color choices are all coincidences and we’re just over analyzing everything. But no I did notice how at the end her dress was blue, just not the colors of her first two dresses
I wish you would have gone deeper into Metro man. The film doesn't go into it much, but Metro man constantly has to fulfill the needs and expectations of an entire city. He has to control his powers, lest he endanger people the same way Hal did to Roxanne. Ultimately, the issue with Metro man is the same as Megamind - neither of them ever chose to be the hero or the villain. Metro man faking his death is the first real choice either of them ever made that wasn't simply a reaction to societal pressures.
He kind of did choose, though. He chose to crash Megamind's ship, he chose not to be supportive of Megamind when they were in school, he chose to be a giant showoff. He put himself in that position and then cried about it.
@@suicune2001 He was praised as a kid whenever he showed off and whenever he put Megamind in time out. When you’re a kid and everyone is giving you positive reinforcement for doing something, you’re more likely to continue doing it. It’s just like how Megamind was raised in a prison where he was taught being evil was good. Metro Man was constantly trying to be the person the city wanted him to be.
Another thing that makes Despicable Me fall flat is Gru never has a true hero against him, and it does two kinds contradicting things 1) the lack of a hero makes him feel like less of a villain, he only ever from the very start fight villains not heros so he doesn't feel like as much of a villain but also 2) the lack of a hero makes him feel less of a good person than Megamind, Megamind played a game of cat and mouse knowing he'd never cause true harm because he'd be stopped, even with blades in Roxannes face never does anything, even after thinking he killed metroman (by mistake pretty much) he doesn't hurt Roxanne with nothing to stop him, Gru however knew no one was gonna stop him so did whatever he wanted, he killed a bunch of customers in a coffee shop so he didn't have to wait in line (they didnt die on screen cause pg but they were frozen solid you don't really live that, at best he acted knowing they may not survive) so overall the lack of hero Gru faces makes him feel less like a villain and more like a bad person and ultimately makes his "redemption" much lesz rewarding because its mostly caused by his enemy being a villain, yes in the end he cares about the girls and goes out of his way to save them but ultimately he never felt like he switched sides he was fighting a villain the whole time so we never got the moment that felt like he chose to be good, it was supposed to be when he gave up the moon but he had already been fighting villains so long it took away so much if the impact that that could have otherwise had Edit: I kinda forgot to tie back to my point, basically Despicable Me falls flat of being a villain to hero story because he never felt like a villain, just a bad person which isn't the same thing. He went from a bad person who fights villains to a not bad person who fights villains not villain to hero
Imagine you’re a citizen of metrocity,and the guy who terrorized your city, killed off the hero protecting you, suddenly saved you from another villain, who was actually life threatening. I love this movie, I don’t think anyone will be able to top a movie like this.
Another thing I noticed about megamind is his aesthetic started with the dodgeball helmet. He put spikes on it to avoid getting hit in his head by the balls, but also as a metaphor for his start to rejection towards other people's aggression towards him, and as he grows up, he keeps adding more and more spikes just to look the part
The contrast between Megamind and Tighten is exceptional! Megamind had a tragic childhood and was constantly rejected by society due to his constantly failed inventions and people being prejudiced towards blue aliens. And Tighten was just a creepy cameraman who lusted for Roxanne. And I love the way they handle their possession of their power and gifts. One of them eventually rises up to be a hero to correct his wrongdoings, in spite of his unfortunate circumstances. And the other becomes a villain after he squanders his powers for his own personal gain. Plus, not only does Megamind take being rejected by Roxanne maturely, but he realises she’s right about all the crimes he committed. Whereas Tighten lets the rejection consume him and refuses to realise his arrogance and entitlement was the reason why Roxanne never wants to be with him. It’s truly amazing how an alien from another planet shows more manners and maturity than a human from Earth. Man, I love this movie! Such a mega mega masterpiece! 🤩👽💙💙💙
You can also blame MetroMan for ruining his life: He intentionally pushed Megamind away from his pod when he was about to land on a mansion,so Megamind ended up in prison where the criminals taught him how to be bad. When he's in school,instead of MetroMan trying to help Megamind improve his inventions,he would shove him into the corner for being an embarrassment,then proudly get a star. This is the same guy who knows very well that he's in a pod going to be taken into great destiny. This is the same guy who pushed Megamind away from a happy life and made him the villain because of his actions. In my book,MetroMan may be a hero to Metro City,but he will always be a villain to me... A good one though,because Megamind wouldn't have been a hero if it wasn't for the hardships MetroMan pushed him through.
@@AllenTheAnimator004 Metroman at first is made to be this cocky guy that wins all the time and doesn't really care about the people he's supposed to protect, and it's due to the same reason Megamind became a villain: Society told him his place. There was no choice for either of them. Just like how Megamind was taught that he was only a villain, Metro man was overly spoiled and taught to "be the hero". As time went on he started to mature and notice that the whole game was going on simply because that's all they knew, it's all what other people wanted. Ultimately, to win an unbeatable game (without killing your foe) is not to play. Seeing how his life wasn't what he actually wanted, he stopped playing. Towards the end when Roxanne and Megamind confront him, he admits the truth about everything. He could have just tossed them out or been a d-bag but he talked to them genuinely. And even at the end, he shows up disguised to watch Megamind become a celebrated hero. Remarking on how proud he is of him. He's not a villain, just a flawed guy that did what society expected of him. Both Megamind and Metroman did bad things, but they both grew out of that mentality.
@@AlechiaTheWitch Actually if you look at the collage hanging up when Roxanne first meets superpowered Hal, it's Titan. He changes it to Tighten when he chooses villainy.
I remember seeing it in theaters, and I really enjoyed it. At the time, it didn't get the recognition it deserved, but I'm happy that it was later acknowledged as a great film, and the discussion about the "nice guy" later on made it ahead of its time.
Megamind is perhaps the perfect villain turned hero. He thought he was only good at being the bad guy until he learned that who you are is what you choose to be, not what society tells you.
The best emotional moment for me in this movie, was the rain scene, when Megamind said to Roxanne "What about everything you said, about judging a book by it's cover" and then she destroyed Megamind with "Well, let's take a look of the contents then, shall we?" with telling him all the bad things he did and how he though Roxanne would be with him, and his only response was "No..." if this was a Disney movie they could be go "oh yeah you're right, you're good after let's forget all the development"
I love how arguably [one of] the story's main message is about how people become one way or another because thats the way others/society expected them to. He tried to be good at first (during his childhood) but nobody could see him as more than a villian. I REALLY like the message and not another films do it like megamind
Another thing: they mistreated Megamind and saw him as "bad" because of where he came from. He literally grew up in a prison so people assumed he was bad because why on god's green earth is a CHILD in prison?? And then there's the assumption that Metroman was a good child because he came from wealth and privilege. It's a good commentary on how kids in poverty are assumed to be bad kids and/or criminals because of growing up in the "wrong part of town" whereas the wealthy kids are assumed to be better behaved and inherently good because they grew up in the "good part of town".
Megamind is perhaps my all time favorite Movie, it’s the Most Clever, Funny, Emotional, Relatable, and Brilliant Film with a lot of Unexpected Twists, the Message of Choice, and a Unique Take of Good and Evil.
The thing I like about Megamind is that he doesn't have ill intentions to the citizens. Though it is implied that the citizens are collateral damage from his explosions and menace to the city, he doesn't directly hurt them. He just does arson and robbery for the sake of being a villain. And by the time he won, he just intimidated them harmlessly and told them to live normally, not massacre them like a typical supervillain. When he find out Hal was on the loose, he did his best to protect the people from Hal. It just shows that even when the movie shoves us at first to tell him he is the "bad guy", he has a genuine heart of gold .
That's what makes Megamind's redemption believable. He's not really evil. Sure, he's done many evil deeds, robbing banks, and kidnapping Roxanne, but he has no ill will towards the people. His villainy is just a game forced by society. This is what Metroman, ahem Musicman, tells him when he sees him. That he's not really evil and that he truly has a heart of gold.
I also love how they set up some plot mechanics like the Dehydration Beam and The Holographic Disguises watch and keep using them every time to its maximum effect in the most clever ways too. Like when he got rejected and it suddenly rains hard it also undoing the Dehydration cubes containing the trashes showing that it was Megamind who cleaned the city up but it also shown that it was all a "ruse" to make it look clean.
To be fair, dehydration cubes would probably be a pretty good way to store trash instead of massive garbage dumps. No doubt leaving the cubes in the street was a ruse to make it look clean, but if you take those cubes and put them in the place of garbage dumps... well to put it simply there are garbage cans full of trash reduced to the size of a 4 inch cube (or something there are no scales in this movie to determine the size of the cubes) would be a fantastic way to store trash, once again proving that while he is a super villain his talents are not necessarily suited to villainy.
I kinda think Megamind's parents were likely to say "you're destined for something great", which he actually manages on both sides. That'd make sense that they know a child of their race would be crazy smart and capable of creating so much inventions for the world he lands on. So the destiny wasn't really for a certain role and instead just a drive they hope he follows.
@TailsFan i wouldnt say it was just for comedic purposes. the fact that megamind doesnt hear that last word/phrase is what kickstarts the themes of the film - nature vs nurture, how society tends to box individuals into small stereotypes and treat them accordingly out of prejudice, and the power we hold (as individuals) to rise above those stereotypes and be something more. megamind never hears what his parents felt he was destined for, so that is entirely up to him to decide and fill in the blanks
I like that the city needed to change how it saw megamind. They needed to see how different Megamind and Hal were. I always got the feeling the Warden was disappointed in Megamind at the start.
See, I think the reason Megamind didn't take off as well was because it was an adult movie told in the animation medium, which simply wasn't received the way it should have been. Dreamworks and Illumination have been really pushing their movies that appeal to children, like minions and boss baby, because that brings in the money in their art genre. Animation is perceived as an art FOR CHILDREN. Which is a shame because Megamind is on par with Ratatouille. They both really were written for adults, with well thought out characters and plot, but children don't appreciate the nuances until their older.
It COOOUUULD be that, but I think the reason is - today, unfortunately, movies are just advertisements for merch. You create sellable characters that look cute/goofy/adorable to put them on pencils, posters, plushies and so on. And bunch of yellow dorks are more understable as a product for adults and kiddos alike, than a weird looking creepy when static blue dude with weird proportions that you need to watch movie of to even understand. I didn't watch minions yet but you can grasp them just by looking at them - silly creatures doing silly stuff and blabbering something.
I think it was probably the marketing, too. I vaguely recall seeing the movie was out, but wasn't really sold on it. I suppose, to be fair, it's hard to show just how clever it is in a 30 second ad spot, but I've heard they even spoiled stuff in the movie? I don't remember exactly myself. But I don't think it got advertised very well at the time. I saw it later and loved it.
The thing that's just night an day scene wise is the difference of how Hal and Megamind handled Roxanne's rejection. Hal got upset and threw a fit. Snapped and left. Megamind didn't fight. He let her go and let her say what she had to... Respect vs disrespect
Hal only threw a fit when He found out megamind Used & menipulated him & roxanne was dating Him the person he Thought he knew Reasonably that Would make him Crazy.
I literally spent 3 hours writing a speech about why Megamind was my hero for an english project. It was the most well-recieved speech in the class, being much longer that everyone else's paragraph-long speeches. I'm still proud.
You know it is kind of obvious something was odd about Metro Man’s “death”, the fact that that all that seemed to be left of him was a skeleton and his suit, you’d think the suit would have burned off if what happened to Metro Man was enough to literally burn clean off his skin and organs. But I guess everyone was too grief stricken to bother to look into this.
Megamind is definitely underrated and was under appreciated at the time. I like how Megamind used the hero’s journey for an unexpected character like Megamind.
Let's not forget also the mini story that came after the movie: "Megamind: The Button of Doom" is also a pretty solid conclusion and brings closure to how Megamind adapts on his new life as a hero. (Also showcases, yet again, how he is his very own worst enemy.)
the start is what made me fall in love with the film, the satirical and offhand way will ferrel delivers his lines is brilliant: Oh thats right, im falling to my death
You have legendary film director Guillermo Del Toro to thank for the opening. It was his idea to start it off with Megamind seemingly falling to his death.
I actually do believe that megamind has powers. He definitely has eiditic memory, and probably some kind of toughness power considering he barely seems phased by being thrown around by metroman and Titan. I think he unknowingly helped metroman learn how to pull his punches tbh.
@xyzza2928 This also could be because he's not human. He very well could have tougher and/or thicker skin and harder to damage organs. Once again, we don't know the anatomy of his species since he's the only one left.
Megamind reminded me of heinz doofenschmitz, someone that was dealt shitty hand by life given every reason to be the devil incarnate. But remains a good person at their core, even if they deny it at first
Fun fact, my cousin directed this movie and Boss Baby, along with created the penguins from Madagascar. I only met the guy once at my great aunt's 100th birthday. He was nice, I remember some of the kids brought him pictures of the penguins and we talked briefly about Megamind and how it was overshadowed by Despicable Me. Although I used to see his mother when she flew into Long Island. Sweet woman, she's kind of like the grandmother we all wished we had. She'd always show the same pictures from the Boss Baby premiere, talking about how I think someone close to them got to voice a "wizard clock" or something. Regardless, really nice people.
I'm really glad that this masterpiece cannot be ruined. Lets protect this movie and never let those greedy companies make any terrible sequels or live action.
I'm not. They would have found some way to ruin it, look at Despicable Me's first movie, which was actually okay, if not nearly as masterful as Megamind. The others are comedically mediocre in comparison.
@@2hufan521 you make an excellent point. instead of getting many shitty sequels we get one great movie and a failed follow up TV series I couldn't even get through the first episode of because they didn't really understand what made the movie special.
Megamind has one of the best character arcs I ever saw in a story. unlike other generic villian who hated society for hating him, he loved being hated. Megamind is actually one of the shows where I enjoyed the journey of the villian, and not fallen heavily on sympathising with him like for example The Joker drama movie which have the same person vs. society type of conflict
I watched and grew up with Megamind long before I watched the first Despicable Me movie(which is the best one of the franchise). Both are full of laughs and have very compelling stories that deserve more recognition for their differences instead of being overshadowed by their similarities 💙
Its criminal that the Megamind was never continued as a tv series like the Kung Fu Panda did it, the whole setting feels like a perfect spoof of super hero world with all kind of interesting ways it could have gone.
There exists a 15 minute short about Megamind’s time as a hero. So basically he comes to the conclusion that to be a hero, he needs to do it right and sells all his evil stuff and builds himself a super suit that gives him “good guy” powers like Metroman has. Problem comes from the fact that he accidentally releases a giant evil robot he built long ago that got thrashed by Metroman and his “hero suit” isn’t enough to stop it. Which leads back to him using the sun laser to kill it. Learning that if he is going to be a hero, he must be the best Megamind he could be and not a Metroman knockoff.
Megamind the master of PRESENTATION and that is how he sees his villainy because in the story he never actually hurt anyone. So he is not morally evil, where hail is closer to actually moral evil.
Yeah! Incredibles1 and MegaMind are literally my favorite superhero films of all the time. The fact that they are fully animated and cartoony gives them a lot more personality than movies with real actors have, and perfectly written script(unlike despicable me, and others had) makes them couple of movie-masterpieces
@@-notAI The Incredibles (and part 2) and Big Hero 6 are some of my favorite superhero films--though I prefer the Incredibles for having actual superpowers rather than the BH6 team who was just a team of cool nerds and a robot, which contrasted to the comic, which had more fantasy elements. (Plus I prefer individual looks rather than uniforms, but TI looked better than BH6.)
I always felt what Megaminds Parents where saying was either that he was destined for greatness, or to be his peoples legacy, both of which are more ambiguous, but would have been something to spur him on to find his place in the world. Cutting it off, was just a funnier way of conveying the same message.
Something that i think is super important is that all of his villainy is entirely ineffective. Hes just not good at being bad, no one is actually harmed or intimidated by him. If that was the case, convincing us that hes actually a good person could be a bit problematic
I think it’s a masterpiece due to also how they took a normal superhero story and said “let’s put a twist on this”. Roxanne isn’t a damsel in distress and is honestly hilarious in the beginning, Metroman is showing the idea of how he may be a hero he wants to be more than that, and megamind is the idea of “what if the bad guy won?” And shows how although he won, he’s not happy, and tries to fix the hole in his heart.
I thought I was the only one to have thought Megamind is an amazing villain!! Also Will Ferrel did an amazing job voicing Megamind, he went to “shool” rofl😂 Thanks for this video!
Looking back at the start of the film you realize that megamind only ever did evil because that was the role he'd been assigned. He got no enjoyment from hurting people and only did so to get metro man's attention, he never had any major policies he wanted to enforce when he had power over the city, and he got bored of stealing things pretty fast. Hal on the other hand got plenty of pleasure from all those things, hence why he became a bad guy the second he could.
Shrek 1, 2, and 4(I argue it's good), Puss in Boots 2, Kung Fu Panda 2 & 3, HTTYD trilogy, Spirit, El Dorado, and Rise of The Guardians are all masterpieces too.
Well good news, you can imply the noquel is non-canon because apparently the Doom Syndicate group is supposed to be Megaminds old team but we know in the first movie, it was just him and Minion against the world and he never had a team, so yeah. That’s a major contradiction that says the second movie is filler as well as the new series.
Megamind is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I forgot to mention it in my own video about Raya and the Last Dragon, specifically about how Namaari didn’t deserve redemption. That is my biggest regret, but I’ll bring it up in a future one tho 👍
The moment metroman is in the dome he’s on the screen in the middle of the city. He briefly flashes, like less than a second he’s not on the giant screen. Which was just another hint something was up. It’s such a good movie and me and mom still say “Spyider” lol.
Thank you for being the first video essay on megamind ive seen that spends any time discussing roxanne's importance to the story and relevence in the tricotomy of good/evil/empathy
I can understand the hate for the third film and the Minion films, but Despicable Me 2 was actually a solid way of continuing Gru’s arc from the first film of being a father to three adopted girls and having to find a woman to be a mother for them since Agnes, the youngest, has a hard time missing her biological mother. It felt at least the natural direction for Gru’s character. I’m just getting annoyed with the hate the second film gets and I think it’s all a FARCE anyways because it’s part of a trend to hate Illunination and their films.
@@hunterolaughlin that's fair, the second movie was pretty solid. Following that, though, they really milked the minions. It's not just Illumination, but a lot of studios find a comic relief character that works really well for a B plot or bouncing off others and try to make them go solo or have a higher focus and it just... falls apart.
@@hunterolaughlin You're not alone liking Despicable me 2, but It's not a "trend" to hate Illumination at all. We hate it because they make the most boring, avarage movies with basic, safe stories that only exist to sell merch. At least bad movies can be enjoyable in an ironic way, or at least have unused potencial. What can you do with an uninteresting movie?
@@hunterolaughlinI know right, while I personally am not the biggest fan of the minion movie, all the other ones were great in my opinion. I’d even dare to say the 2nd one was better than the first. I just love Gru and Lucy’s dynamic so much.
I love how MetroMan was a red-herring villain in a way. Because of how arrogant and universally beloved he was his entire childhood and superhero life, we just assume he's going to be the badguy at the end of the day, then the movie twists it on us and makes him seemingly die right before the middle of the film, and removes him from the main plot entirely. And when it's revealed he IS still alive it's not so he can be a secret shadowy mastermind orchestrating evil from behind the curtains, it's so that he... can pursue a humble career in musical arts! And it turns out that aside from having an ego, he's a very chill dude, actually.
I also think that deep down, he didn't actually want to beat Metroman. In all honesty their encounters almost feels like "playing" including their banter.
One thing to always remember about megamind is that he’s not EVIL he would never hurt or mean to kill someone. He just likes the role of a villain he’s like an actor playing a part. Megamind loves the concept of GOOD VS EVIL BUT HES NOT EVIL
Who was the true hero in the beginning? Metro Man. Who was the true villain in the beginning? Megamind. You get it, right? He was the villain, and he was happy like that! He saw it not as a serious thing, but a game. And he LOVED it. Until the hero was "killed". He enjoyed it for a while, but then just sadly stares out the big window of City Hall, questioning his purpose. Now, let's invert the questions. Who was the true villain in the end? Hal. Who was the true hero in the end? Megamind. At this point, Hal had turned to the purest dark side and saw it as his job. Megamind, however, still saw their battle as a game. Until he heard the line "Oh no, I was thinking more like the mourge. You're dead!" from Hal/Titan. He was downright terrified when he heard that his life was at risk. He fled, instead of submitting and dying, showing his fear and the fact that he never expected to die. Metro Man never took lives, he just imprisoned Megamind. Titan was the villain, simply and utterly.
Without a doubt, this is the most non-stop commentary I have ever encountered in a movie retrospective. Granted, I watch all TH-cam videos (sans music) at 2x, so it is little wonder the commentary reminds me of those old commercials depicting that fast-talking guy, John Moschitta, in FedEx commercials. I am not complaining, just commenting. Keep 'em coming.
9:17 I didn't notice this when I watched the movie, but you can see a slight like glitch in the camera that is later revealed to be Metroman doing his existential crisis thing
the most awesome and yet disturbing in this movie is actually tighten's lifelikeness i mean, there's no real megamind or metroman out there, but there's a f'ckton of tighten-like creeps around the world and it's scary how crazy they can go when they got power in any sense
Its not "Tighten", ist "Titan". But Hal has no education to know the titans. Look at Disney's Hercules to know the titans. And forshadowing: the greec titans are not good, they stand against the goods.
@@ulrichheiwolt6120megamind called him titan, but when hal burns his name into metrocity he spells it tighten cause hes an idiot. so most fans prefer using tighten.
if you go through the video and look at the scene where the civilians are watching megamind and metroman you can see metroman flicker for a split second and you can see something appear behind megamind. This was a foreshadowing of metroman's super speed.
Minion is literally the best supervillain minion/sidekick The line “you may be a villain but you’re not super” “What’s the difference?” “PRESENTATION!!” Lives rent free in my head
I like how different Roxanne's two kidnappings are. When Megamind kidnaps her, she's calm and joking. Even though she's a hostage, she knows she's not in any real danger. But when Tighten did it, she's utterly terrified. It's a good contrast; it shows how while Megamind is good-natured, Hal is not
it shows how megamind was "evil" purely for the idea of being a villain, and that she knew he wouldnt hurt her
while hal was unhinged and chaotic in his behavior, you dont know what to expect of someone like that, someone unfit to do anything that doesnt directly benefit himself
Yup, Megamind was kidnapping her specifically for the purpose of getting Metroman to save her, it didn't really matter if she was in real danger or not and since it didn't matter and he's not a monster she never was in danger, it was all basically a game and she knew it, so she played along.
It's even stated that he once had a promotion, where everytime he kidnapped someone, he'd stamp a card, and presumably give them something if they got enough stamps.
Megamind was never evil, he was just playing a game of cat and mouse similar to Joker and Batman. He never knew his destiny and adopted his villain role because that's the environment he grew up in.
@@2dieforThe Joker is a poor comparison. Megamind is a punch-clock villain just wanting fun; the Joker is pure evil and revels in death and destruction.
I love how Megamind was willing to let go of Roxanne after he got rejected meanwhile Hal let it get over him and consumed him completely, Megamind was raised in prison meanwhile Hal had a normal life compared to him, the fact that the alien has more manners and humanity than the human says something
I think it’s because Megamind realized that Roxanne was right about him. He did do all those horrible things she said he did and thought he would never get the girl even though he tried to be good. While Hal just thought his powers would be enough to get her to be with him without even attempting to be good. Man, this movie is so good.
The prisoners may be there for life, but they taught some decent manners. The crimes and stuff, it happens when you are surrounded by criminals, but if you are in there for life and you see a child who sees you as father figures, you'll do your best with what you are given.
The fact that an alien raised by criminals in a literal prison is more self awareness and conscious says volume
I think the word "humanity" as an adjective should be discarded.
I would say Metroman is still the better hero of the movie because Megamind is still immature given the fact he was the one that started the problem by giving Hal his powers but I still believe you're statement is valid, Megamind has a good spirit and is likeable because he is truthful and can change overtime.
The one thing about how Metroman faked his death was through the use of the superspeed power that Megamind didn't seem to know about. Megamind would have been SCREWWED if Titan discovered this power.
Hm, never thought about that. Megamind taught Hal everything he knew about Metroman, but Metroman never demonstrated his full capacity to Megamind because he never had to.
@@delrunplays2903Something I’ve thought for a while is that Metroman, and Megamind to an extent, never truly took the fights seriously. Don’t think the citizens did much either, since there didn’t seem to be a ton of fear of him at the beginning. Conversely, Titan was an actual threat that lead to an evacuation of the city
@@delrunplays2903 Definitely an interesting small detail I never thought of either, and is unsurprisingly another parallel to Superman. Superman is actually a lot stronger than most people think he is, to an honestly frightening degree, but he almost never willingly uses 100% of his power.
@@Draco-9158 honestly megamind and metroman's fight shows that a lot of it was like them play fighting if anything
The fact that he has that type of OP power and never uses at Megamind, proves that he is just toying him around and just want to make a show for his audience.
The moment that always gets me a little is when Megamind, someone raised to embrace badness and villainy, discovers that Hal has embraced his worst impulses and can only a feel a deep sense of disappointment that someone could be given such a gift and not use it for good.
Shows that he was jealous of Metroman and all his powers, but didn’t think he was capable of being anything but the villain. He could have given himself superpowers but probably didn’t think he was “worthy”
You know you messed up the mellowed out ex-convicts are disappointed in you.
Megamind wanted a Hero to challenge him. Not another villain
"You're giving villainy a bad rep, we're not monsters here."
Or, better yet-
"Professionals have STANDARDS."
When a sympathetic, redeemable villain is actually well written. Learn this, Disney.
Unlike Namaari, Megamind gets concequences
Well, he IS the star; it's different than writing the actual antagonist as redeemable.
@@justsomeguywholovesberserk6375I wish a lot of things about Raya were different. Looking at the concept art, Namaari seemed much more creepy and calculating. It would've been good to lean into that, giving her more screentime to show her loyalty to Fang, pressure from her mother, and perhaps the Druun curropting her in a way. That's what sucks about travel movies; you're showing so many places, but it cuts down the amount of screentime they get.
Ahem, Wreck-it-Ralph
@@EvokerInvokerble fair enough
Fun fact: in the original trailer for Megamind his parents actually said “You are destined for greatness” which was ultimately changed to what is shown in the final release of the movie to help match the theme better.
You can still see it in the movie. The father makes the mouth movements for greatness but the hatch on Megamind’s pod closes and you don’t hear it, with him acknowledging it. “I didn’t hear that last part but it sounded important. Destined for what?”
Even "greatness" could be twisted into whatever you want. A great villain? Hero? Singer? Dancer? But it's better they left it out even though it was pretty obvious that's what he was going to say.
@@suicune2001 In Polish version His father says: _"Jestes stworzony do..."_ which sounds familiar to _"You are destinied for greatness"_ or _"great things"_
@@suicune2001I think that's kind of the point. He's destined for greatness, but whatever kind of greatness he achieves is up to him to decide. It resonates with the overall theme of the movie of self discovery and being true to yourself even if that means taking a radically different path in life than you were lead to expect by others.
Yes. It helps with the theme better but also is funny and subverts the typical trope of alien superheros like Superman.
People point put the stupidity of the officers dropping their guns at the sight of Megamind. I find it a genius detail showing us just how dependent on Metroman the city was
tbf he does have hundreds of robots pointing lasers at them.
@@fairystail1 True, but also notice where their attention is. Their eyes are on him. They had to have acknowledged the robots. That much is true. But they were focused on Megamind
@@gimmiK87 i think megamind 2 is a great sequel
@@evllestguy Same
@@evllestguyThe trailer says otherwise
I love how the movie isn't just a superhero Shrek. It is about not judging people because of their looks but it also talks about all the terrible things Megamind has done and him having to fix them.
- He gives everything back.
- Cleans the city. (On the outside)
- He defeats Hal.
- He cleans and rebuilds the city for real this time.
Far too often this kind of story will only focus on how mistreated the villain was and completely omit all the objectively worst things the villain has done. Shrek was just living alone and scared people when they come at him with pitchforks. The bird witch from Mulan 2020 killed and possessed people she's not redeemed just because she took an arrow in Mulan's stead.
Megamind is also about the difference of what a good person is. It is not by wealth, not by powers, not by looks, but the heart of a person. Megamind is selfless and compassionate while Hal is an entitled 'nice guy'.
I also love how it shows people can be pushed into certain roles by society even if that's not who they really are. You can gaslight someone only so much before they start to believe it themselves.
shrek wasn't doing anything evil but otherwise you're right
@@suicune2001 I don't want to be that guy, but it's manipulation, not gaslighting.
@@redpanda6497 But is it manipulation if they aren't aware of it? I don't think they intentionally set out to create a villain. They were basically just racist and projected that bias on to him.
Megamind is an example of someone who despite being a villain at first is deep down and truly pure good.
i think its more of a mock how being a villain doesnt really ever serve a purpose, the way they showed that after winning megamind just had nothing to do, that those plans are meaningless since what does taking over the city even give you
or rather, a mock of a villain whos evil purely for the sake of evil
Notice the use of color theory in the film, Metro Man uses White and Gold, Megamind uses Black and Silver to show they're polar opposites as hero and villain.
Titan uses flames and angry colors to symbolize the chaotic mad man he will become, and Roxanne has the most interesting touch. When she hates Megamind at the start, her dress is Red. At the climax it becomes purple when her feelings become mixed, and the very end it is a blue dress to show her full support for him.
Little details like this show how much care really went into the story.
Megamind's desaturated black, blue and silver is also the exact opposite of Titan's colour saturated white, red and gold colour scheme, which is another nice little detail.
Not to mention the fact that unlike the heroes, his actual logo (the M) is only a small detail on that studded gorget of his and I can't recall if it's even on the Black Mamba mech, rather than emblazoned on his chest. and other immediately obvious areas
@@sunandshadow6593green is the opposite of red not blue
@@Nickipedia0 Not in the RGB colour wheel, where cyan (which is the main shade of "blue" used in Megamind) is the opposite of red. You also see most "side vs side" as red vs blue.
@@Nickipedia0 The opposite of Green is Purple. The opposite of Red is Cyan (which is as much "a blue" than a green but anyway)
It's true that our brain has a filter that opposite Green and Red, preventing us from picturing a substractive mix of the two pigments (even if it's technically just dark yellow in a substractive mix o pigments, so olive and mustard brown, not that crazy).
There are three filters in fact, with Light-Dark (all cones triggered or none), and Blue-Yellow(Green-Red in the same time...), this last being the same on the color wheel. And I say the actual color wheel, based on our three types of cones cells in our eyes, RGB, and their polar opposites, CMY, which determinate how we see and blend colors.
Red-Cyan, Green-Magenta, Blue-Yellow. All those 6 colors form the primary-secondary colors; and yes they're both, just not in the same time. As I said, it's about blending either light or pigments (which absorbs some wavelengths and mirror the rest, hence the "substractive" inversion).
So yeah, Azure is the opposite or Orange.
Imagine the color choices are all coincidences and we’re just over analyzing everything.
But no I did notice how at the end her dress was blue, just not the colors of her first two dresses
I wish you would have gone deeper into Metro man. The film doesn't go into it much, but Metro man constantly has to fulfill the needs and expectations of an entire city. He has to control his powers, lest he endanger people the same way Hal did to Roxanne. Ultimately, the issue with Metro man is the same as Megamind - neither of them ever chose to be the hero or the villain. Metro man faking his death is the first real choice either of them ever made that wasn't simply a reaction to societal pressures.
He kind of did choose, though. He chose to crash Megamind's ship, he chose not to be supportive of Megamind when they were in school, he chose to be a giant showoff. He put himself in that position and then cried about it.
@@suicune2001 to be fair he was still a child when that happened but touche, touche indeed
@@suicune2001 Well when it comes to kids, their parents are half of any problems.
@@wildfire9280 True. Imagine how his parents must have been.
@@suicune2001 He was praised as a kid whenever he showed off and whenever he put Megamind in time out. When you’re a kid and everyone is giving you positive reinforcement for doing something, you’re more likely to continue doing it. It’s just like how Megamind was raised in a prison where he was taught being evil was good. Metro Man was constantly trying to be the person the city wanted him to be.
Despicable Me: Villain-turned-hero movie
Megamind: The Cool Villain-turned-hero movie
the brain bots are infinitely better than the minions
@DarthZ01 hell ya, they are. I still loved collecting the McDonalds toys when it came out ❤
Another thing that makes Despicable Me fall flat is Gru never has a true hero against him, and it does two kinds contradicting things 1) the lack of a hero makes him feel like less of a villain, he only ever from the very start fight villains not heros so he doesn't feel like as much of a villain but also 2) the lack of a hero makes him feel less of a good person than Megamind, Megamind played a game of cat and mouse knowing he'd never cause true harm because he'd be stopped, even with blades in Roxannes face never does anything, even after thinking he killed metroman (by mistake pretty much) he doesn't hurt Roxanne with nothing to stop him, Gru however knew no one was gonna stop him so did whatever he wanted, he killed a bunch of customers in a coffee shop so he didn't have to wait in line (they didnt die on screen cause pg but they were frozen solid you don't really live that, at best he acted knowing they may not survive) so overall the lack of hero Gru faces makes him feel less like a villain and more like a bad person and ultimately makes his "redemption" much lesz rewarding because its mostly caused by his enemy being a villain, yes in the end he cares about the girls and goes out of his way to save them but ultimately he never felt like he switched sides he was fighting a villain the whole time so we never got the moment that felt like he chose to be good, it was supposed to be when he gave up the moon but he had already been fighting villains so long it took away so much if the impact that that could have otherwise had
Edit: I kinda forgot to tie back to my point, basically Despicable Me falls flat of being a villain to hero story because he never felt like a villain, just a bad person which isn't the same thing. He went from a bad person who fights villains to a not bad person who fights villains not villain to hero
You know the difference between the two movies? PRESENTATION! 😁
Despicable Me: Villain turns hero
Megamind: Super Villain turns super hero
Imagine you’re a citizen of metrocity,and the guy who terrorized your city, killed off the hero protecting you, suddenly saved you from another villain, who was actually life threatening.
I love this movie, I don’t think anyone will be able to top a movie like this.
I'd have to lie down lol
I love the intro and setup of the movie so much. When it cuts off after his parents say “you are destined for…” leaving everything open was great
Another thing I noticed about megamind is his aesthetic started with the dodgeball helmet. He put spikes on it to avoid getting hit in his head by the balls, but also as a metaphor for his start to rejection towards other people's aggression towards him, and as he grows up, he keeps adding more and more spikes just to look the part
The contrast between Megamind and Tighten is exceptional!
Megamind had a tragic childhood and was constantly rejected by society due to his constantly failed inventions and people being prejudiced towards blue aliens. And Tighten was just a creepy cameraman who lusted for Roxanne. And I love the way they handle their possession of their power and gifts. One of them eventually rises up to be a hero to correct his wrongdoings, in spite of his unfortunate circumstances. And the other becomes a villain after he squanders his powers for his own personal gain. Plus, not only does Megamind take being rejected by Roxanne maturely, but he realises she’s right about all the crimes he committed. Whereas Tighten lets
the rejection consume him and refuses to realise his arrogance and entitlement was the reason why Roxanne never wants to be with him. It’s truly amazing how an alien from another planet shows more manners and maturity than a human from Earth.
Man, I love this movie! Such a mega mega masterpiece! 🤩👽💙💙💙
You can also blame MetroMan for ruining his life:
He intentionally pushed Megamind away from his pod when he was about to land on a mansion,so Megamind ended up in prison where the criminals taught him how to be bad.
When he's in school,instead of MetroMan trying to help Megamind improve his inventions,he would shove him into the corner for being an embarrassment,then proudly get a star. This is the same guy who knows very well that he's in a pod going to be taken into great destiny. This is the same guy who pushed Megamind away from a happy life and made him the villain because of his actions.
In my book,MetroMan may be a hero to Metro City,but he will always be a villain to me... A good one though,because Megamind wouldn't have been a hero if it wasn't for the hardships MetroMan pushed him through.
Tighten
@@AllenTheAnimator004 Yeah, Metro Man is definitely to blame for Megamind’s tragic life.
@@AllenTheAnimator004
Metroman at first is made to be this cocky guy that wins all the time and doesn't really care about the people he's supposed to protect, and it's due to the same reason Megamind became a villain: Society told him his place. There was no choice for either of them.
Just like how Megamind was taught that he was only a villain, Metro man was overly spoiled and taught to "be the hero". As time went on he started to mature and notice that the whole game was going on simply because that's all they knew, it's all what other people wanted. Ultimately, to win an unbeatable game (without killing your foe) is not to play. Seeing how his life wasn't what he actually wanted, he stopped playing.
Towards the end when Roxanne and Megamind confront him, he admits the truth about everything. He could have just tossed them out or been a d-bag but he talked to them genuinely. And even at the end, he shows up disguised to watch Megamind become a celebrated hero. Remarking on how proud he is of him.
He's not a villain, just a flawed guy that did what society expected of him.
Both Megamind and Metroman did bad things, but they both grew out of that mentality.
@@AlechiaTheWitch Actually if you look at the collage hanging up when Roxanne first meets superpowered Hal, it's Titan. He changes it to Tighten when he chooses villainy.
Megamind was truly ahead of its time
Yeah especially with the whole r/niceguy thing
I remember seeing it in theaters, and I really enjoyed it. At the time, it didn't get the recognition it deserved, but I'm happy that it was later acknowledged as a great film, and the discussion about the "nice guy" later on made it ahead of its time.
Megamind is perhaps the perfect villain turned hero. He thought he was only good at being the bad guy until he learned that who you are is what you choose to be, not what society tells you.
The Title should be why Megamind is the perfect Super - Villain and the reason is:
*PRESENTATION*
EXACTLY!
Yeah the whole time he never did evil things but just liked the villain aesthetic lol
Anti villain or anti hero i forgor
The best emotional moment for me in this movie, was the rain scene, when Megamind said to Roxanne "What about everything you said, about judging a book by it's cover" and then she destroyed Megamind with "Well, let's take a look of the contents then, shall we?" with telling him all the bad things he did and how he though Roxanne would be with him, and his only response was "No..." if this was a Disney movie they could be go "oh yeah you're right, you're good after let's forget all the development"
I love how arguably [one of] the story's main message is about how people become one way or another because thats the way others/society expected them to. He tried to be good at first (during his childhood) but nobody could see him as more than a villian. I REALLY like the message and not another films do it like megamind
I think it’s more so that they *can* than that they absolutely *will.*
@@wildfire9280 yes exactly
Another thing: they mistreated Megamind and saw him as "bad" because of where he came from. He literally grew up in a prison so people assumed he was bad because why on god's green earth is a CHILD in prison?? And then there's the assumption that Metroman was a good child because he came from wealth and privilege. It's a good commentary on how kids in poverty are assumed to be bad kids and/or criminals because of growing up in the "wrong part of town" whereas the wealthy kids are assumed to be better behaved and inherently good because they grew up in the "good part of town".
Megamind is perhaps my all time favorite Movie, it’s the Most Clever, Funny, Emotional, Relatable, and Brilliant Film with a lot of Unexpected Twists, the Message of Choice, and a Unique Take of Good and Evil.
The thing I like about Megamind is that he doesn't have ill intentions to the citizens. Though it is implied that the citizens are collateral damage from his explosions and menace to the city, he doesn't directly hurt them. He just does arson and robbery for the sake of being a villain. And by the time he won, he just intimidated them harmlessly and told them to live normally, not massacre them like a typical supervillain. When he find out Hal was on the loose, he did his best to protect the people from Hal. It just shows that even when the movie shoves us at first to tell him he is the "bad guy", he has a genuine heart of gold .
That's what makes Megamind's redemption believable. He's not really evil. Sure, he's done many evil deeds, robbing banks, and kidnapping Roxanne, but he has no ill will towards the people. His villainy is just a game forced by society. This is what Metroman, ahem Musicman, tells him when he sees him. That he's not really evil and that he truly has a heart of gold.
I also love how they set up some plot mechanics like the Dehydration Beam and The Holographic Disguises watch and keep using them every time to its maximum effect in the most clever ways too. Like when he got rejected and it suddenly rains hard it also undoing the Dehydration cubes containing the trashes showing that it was Megamind who cleaned the city up but it also shown that it was all a "ruse" to make it look clean.
To be fair, dehydration cubes would probably be a pretty good way to store trash instead of massive garbage dumps. No doubt leaving the cubes in the street was a ruse to make it look clean, but if you take those cubes and put them in the place of garbage dumps... well to put it simply there are garbage cans full of trash reduced to the size of a 4 inch cube (or something there are no scales in this movie to determine the size of the cubes) would be a fantastic way to store trash, once again proving that while he is a super villain his talents are not necessarily suited to villainy.
I kinda think Megamind's parents were likely to say "you're destined for something great", which he actually manages on both sides. That'd make sense that they know a child of their race would be crazy smart and capable of creating so much inventions for the world he lands on. So the destiny wasn't really for a certain role and instead just a drive they hope he follows.
Yeah, "destined for greatness" sounds about right for their lip movements.
@TailsFan Apparently, they had the full line in the trailer where they do indeed say greatness.
@@Kjf365 Yeah, I figured. But they made it so he didn't hear it for comedic purposes.
Species*
@TailsFan i wouldnt say it was just for comedic purposes. the fact that megamind doesnt hear that last word/phrase is what kickstarts the themes of the film - nature vs nurture, how society tends to box individuals into small stereotypes and treat them accordingly out of prejudice, and the power we hold (as individuals) to rise above those stereotypes and be something more. megamind never hears what his parents felt he was destined for, so that is entirely up to him to decide and fill in the blanks
I like that the city needed to change how it saw megamind. They needed to see how different Megamind and Hal were.
I always got the feeling the Warden was disappointed in Megamind at the start.
See, I think the reason Megamind didn't take off as well was because it was an adult movie told in the animation medium, which simply wasn't received the way it should have been. Dreamworks and Illumination have been really pushing their movies that appeal to children, like minions and boss baby, because that brings in the money in their art genre. Animation is perceived as an art FOR CHILDREN.
Which is a shame because Megamind is on par with Ratatouille. They both really were written for adults, with well thought out characters and plot, but children don't appreciate the nuances until their older.
It COOOUUULD be that, but I think the reason is - today, unfortunately, movies are just advertisements for merch. You create sellable characters that look cute/goofy/adorable to put them on pencils, posters, plushies and so on.
And bunch of yellow dorks are more understable as a product for adults and kiddos alike, than a weird looking creepy when static blue dude with weird proportions that you need to watch movie of to even understand.
I didn't watch minions yet but you can grasp them just by looking at them - silly creatures doing silly stuff and blabbering something.
Rat”patootie”?
Before you flame me, guy literally.says it in ratatouille
@@TyshaggyGaming ratatoing
I think it was probably the marketing, too. I vaguely recall seeing the movie was out, but wasn't really sold on it.
I suppose, to be fair, it's hard to show just how clever it is in a 30 second ad spot, but I've heard they even spoiled stuff in the movie? I don't remember exactly myself.
But I don't think it got advertised very well at the time. I saw it later and loved it.
The thing that's just night an day scene wise is the difference of how Hal and Megamind handled Roxanne's rejection.
Hal got upset and threw a fit. Snapped and left.
Megamind didn't fight. He let her go and let her say what she had to...
Respect vs disrespect
Hal only threw a fit when
He found out megamind
Used & menipulated him
& roxanne was dating
Him the person he
Thought he knew
Reasonably that
Would make him
Crazy.
@@elongatedmanforever1252 He means when he kidnaped Roxanne the first time
I literally spent 3 hours writing a speech about why Megamind was my hero for an english project. It was the most well-recieved speech in the class, being much longer that everyone else's paragraph-long speeches. I'm still proud.
I love how Mega Mind clearly saw villainy as a kind of performance art.
Wait. Megamind was a theater kid?!
@@jimmykedge6650 Yes
You know it is kind of obvious something was odd about Metro Man’s “death”, the fact that that all that seemed to be left of him was a skeleton and his suit, you’d think the suit would have burned off if what happened to Metro Man was enough to literally burn clean off his skin and organs. But I guess everyone was too grief stricken to bother to look into this.
It wasn't his suit, it was his cape
Megamind is definitely underrated and was under appreciated at the time. I like how Megamind used the hero’s journey for an unexpected character like Megamind.
Let's not forget also the mini story that came after the movie: "Megamind: The Button of Doom" is also a pretty solid conclusion and brings closure to how Megamind adapts on his new life as a hero. (Also showcases, yet again, how he is his very own worst enemy.)
the start is what made me fall in love with the film, the satirical and offhand way will ferrel delivers his lines is brilliant:
Oh thats right, im falling to my death
You have legendary film director Guillermo Del Toro to thank for the opening. It was his idea to start it off with Megamind seemingly falling to his death.
Man I’m glad this movie didn’t get a sequel. Yep. This was the only one they made.
Sequel?What are you talking about? Megamind is a one off movie.
You forgot the sequel movie Megamind vs the Doom Syndicate.
@@Nelvinkumar nope never happened
@@Nelvinkumar You mean the button of doom right?
@@danieljuries9473 That is the short film and it's not even a confirmed full-length DreamWorks sequel to Megamind.
I actually do believe that megamind has powers. He definitely has eiditic memory, and probably some kind of toughness power considering he barely seems phased by being thrown around by metroman and Titan. I think he unknowingly helped metroman learn how to pull his punches tbh.
He survived a physical fight with Tighten, who could throw a skyscraper with one hand. He's definitely more naturally durable than a human.
@xyzza2928 This also could be because he's not human. He very well could have tougher and/or thicker skin and harder to damage organs. Once again, we don't know the anatomy of his species since he's the only one left.
Yeah let's pretend megamind 2 doesn't exist
Indeed
Pretend what doesn't exist?
@@Cocaine_Santa good job soldier
Megamind 2? Pshhhh never heard of it
Whats wrong with Button of Doom? :(
Megamind is such a stand out movie for DreamWorks that I often forget it's a DreamWorks film 💀
Megamind reminded me of heinz doofenschmitz, someone that was dealt shitty hand by life given every reason to be the devil incarnate.
But remains a good person at their core, even if they deny it at first
More people should apprecite this film and it's characters more. Love the content Aldone!
Megamind didn't choose Hal. He got hit by the power-giving device through accident.
But he did choose not to take them away.
I'm not gonna lie, i read the thumbnail as "Why Megamind Is The Perfect Nerd" but this works too.
I always wondered of Hal was a distorted parody of Jimmy Olsen, since Metro-Man and Metro-City are a clear parody of a certain DC superhero
Metroman is Markiplier but if he is like Superman
Don't forget that Megamind is a parody of Brainiaic and Roxanne is a parody of Lois lane
@@sonicfanboy3375 them too
I mean this movie is a parody of Superman, with a good twist
@@sonicfanboy3375 Lol! I didn't know that!
Fun fact, my cousin directed this movie and Boss Baby, along with created the penguins from Madagascar. I only met the guy once at my great aunt's 100th birthday. He was nice, I remember some of the kids brought him pictures of the penguins and we talked briefly about Megamind and how it was overshadowed by Despicable Me.
Although I used to see his mother when she flew into Long Island. Sweet woman, she's kind of like the grandmother we all wished we had. She'd always show the same pictures from the Boss Baby premiere, talking about how I think someone close to them got to voice a "wizard clock" or something.
Regardless, really nice people.
Wow! Tom McGrath AKA Skipper is your cousin? That is SO awesome!
i cant even trust comments like this anymore because of all the lies people tell for attention.
if your cousin really did thats awesome
Made up story. Aint no way u are related to the director
@@Egghead012 always the chance they are
Source: Just trust me bro.
I'm really glad that this masterpiece cannot be ruined. Lets protect this movie and never let those greedy companies make any terrible sequels or live action.
Man this age poorly
@@Mr.ChopperThou shalt not talk about it.
I've always been sad that megamind didn't get the love it should have and we now have minions instead. sigh
I'm not.
They would have found some way to ruin it, look at Despicable Me's first movie, which was actually okay, if not nearly as masterful as Megamind.
The others are comedically mediocre in comparison.
@@2hufan521 you make an excellent point. instead of getting many shitty sequels we get one great movie and a failed follow up TV series I couldn't even get through the first episode of because they didn't really understand what made the movie special.
For some reason, I really like Megamind as Bernard than Bernard himself.
Same 😂
Megamind has one of the best character arcs I ever saw in a story. unlike other generic villian who hated society for hating him, he loved being hated. Megamind is actually one of the shows where I enjoyed the journey of the villian, and not fallen heavily on sympathising with him like for example The Joker drama movie which have the same person vs. society type of conflict
Zuko from Avatar the Last Airbender is another such amazing story arc.
I watched and grew up with Megamind long before I watched the first Despicable Me movie(which is the best one of the franchise). Both are full of laughs and have very compelling stories that deserve more recognition for their differences instead of being overshadowed by their similarities 💙
Good thing this is the only movie from the franchise and that a sequel doesn't exist.
bro sleeping on the button of doom
Bro's living under a cave
Its criminal that the Megamind was never continued as a tv series like the Kung Fu Panda did it, the whole setting feels like a perfect spoof of super hero world with all kind of interesting ways it could have gone.
We might be getting a series some time in 2024
There exists a 15 minute short about Megamind’s time as a hero.
So basically he comes to the conclusion that to be a hero, he needs to do it right and sells all his evil stuff and builds himself a super suit that gives him “good guy” powers like Metroman has.
Problem comes from the fact that he accidentally releases a giant evil robot he built long ago that got thrashed by Metroman and his “hero suit” isn’t enough to stop it. Which leads back to him using the sun laser to kill it. Learning that if he is going to be a hero, he must be the best Megamind he could be and not a Metroman knockoff.
2024 guy here. They did. They shouldn’t have.
@@cooliotrainlover1213 yeah, the tv show story makes 0 sense when compared to what happened in the first movie. Its really a massive shame.
Megamind the master of PRESENTATION and that is how he sees his villainy because in the story he never actually hurt anyone. So he is not morally evil, where hail is closer to actually moral evil.
NGL, I just want more animated superhero films by major companies in general--preferably serious ones rather than comedy or satire.
Yeah! Incredibles1 and MegaMind are literally my favorite superhero films of all the time. The fact that they are fully animated and cartoony gives them a lot more personality than movies with real actors have, and perfectly written script(unlike despicable me, and others had) makes them couple of movie-masterpieces
@@-notAI The Incredibles (and part 2) and Big Hero 6 are some of my favorite superhero films--though I prefer the Incredibles for having actual superpowers rather than the BH6 team who was just a team of cool nerds and a robot, which contrasted to the comic, which had more fantasy elements. (Plus I prefer individual looks rather than uniforms, but TI looked better than BH6.)
I always felt what Megaminds Parents where saying was either that he was destined for greatness, or to be his peoples legacy, both of which are more ambiguous, but would have been something to spur him on to find his place in the world. Cutting it off, was just a funnier way of conveying the same message.
I never noticed the little "glitch" on Metroman's screen in the interaction. Like they really did just hint at that perfectly.
From Supervillian to Superheroe
I loved this movie. Funny as hell. And turning the Villain, into a protagonist. Great concept. 👍
Megamind is the GOAT and deserves a banger sequel like Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.😎💙✊🏽
@@MothBvcket if this series does good maybe we can get another movie too?
Sadly it isn’t
@@dominicnordquidst5025 Yeah I know.😔
😢
Something that i think is super important is that all of his villainy is entirely ineffective. Hes just not good at being bad, no one is actually harmed or intimidated by him. If that was the case, convincing us that hes actually a good person could be a bit problematic
I think it’s a masterpiece due to also how they took a normal superhero story and said “let’s put a twist on this”. Roxanne isn’t a damsel in distress and is honestly hilarious in the beginning, Metroman is showing the idea of how he may be a hero he wants to be more than that, and megamind is the idea of “what if the bad guy won?” And shows how although he won, he’s not happy, and tries to fix the hole in his heart.
im so glad that megamind never made a sequel
out of all the superhero movies megamind is one of the few if not the only one that i can rewatch over and over and not get tired of it.
I thought I was the only one to have thought Megamind is an amazing villain!! Also Will Ferrel did an amazing job voicing Megamind, he went to “shool” rofl😂
Thanks for this video!
Looking back at the start of the film you realize that megamind only ever did evil because that was the role he'd been assigned. He got no enjoyment from hurting people and only did so to get metro man's attention, he never had any major policies he wanted to enforce when he had power over the city, and he got bored of stealing things pretty fast. Hal on the other hand got plenty of pleasure from all those things, hence why he became a bad guy the second he could.
Megamind really is the perfect superhero movie and it just needed to come out at the right time for everyone to see how truly brilliant it is
Dreamworks has 3 perfect films: Kung Fu Panda, Megamind, Prince of Egypt
And How to train your dragon 😊
and puss in boots 2 and shrek 2 and kung fu panda 2 and all of the how to train your dragon film's and
@@dannysmi7162stop using emojjis
Shrek 1, 2, and 4(I argue it's good), Puss in Boots 2, Kung Fu Panda 2 & 3, HTTYD trilogy, Spirit, El Dorado, and Rise of The Guardians are all masterpieces too.
I know a lot disagree but I loved Abominable and Ruby Gillman
jinxed it...
you know what, i refuse to think that Megamind 2 is canon to megamind 1
Well good news, you can imply the noquel is non-canon because apparently the Doom Syndicate group is supposed to be Megaminds old team but we know in the first movie, it was just him and Minion against the world and he never had a team, so yeah. That’s a major contradiction that says the second movie is filler as well as the new series.
Having a hard time creating a likable hero? Just look to our blue king..
Megamind is one of my fav animated movie... Truly a hidden and underrated gem ❤
Megamind is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I forgot to mention it in my own video about Raya and the Last Dragon, specifically about how Namaari didn’t deserve redemption. That is my biggest regret, but I’ll bring it up in a future one tho 👍
The moment metroman is in the dome he’s on the screen in the middle of the city. He briefly flashes, like less than a second he’s not on the giant screen.
Which was just another hint something was up.
It’s such a good movie and me and mom still say “Spyider” lol.
Well this aged well
Thank you for being the first video essay on megamind ive seen that spends any time discussing roxanne's importance to the story and relevence in the tricotomy of good/evil/empathy
Megamind is such a great character he is both a good villain and a good hero
Who else is here after they announced Megamind 2
I liked both Megamind and Despicable me, though I don't think the latter deserved its declining in quality sequels.
I can understand the hate for the third film and the Minion films, but Despicable Me 2 was actually a solid way of continuing Gru’s arc from the first film of being a father to three adopted girls and having to find a woman to be a mother for them since Agnes, the youngest, has a hard time missing her biological mother. It felt at least the natural direction for Gru’s character. I’m just getting annoyed with the hate the second film gets and I think it’s all a FARCE anyways because it’s part of a trend to hate Illunination and their films.
@@hunterolaughlin that's fair, the second movie was pretty solid. Following that, though, they really milked the minions. It's not just Illumination, but a lot of studios find a comic relief character that works really well for a B plot or bouncing off others and try to make them go solo or have a higher focus and it just... falls apart.
@@hunterolaughlin You're not alone liking Despicable me 2, but It's not a "trend" to hate Illumination at all. We hate it because they make the most boring, avarage movies with basic, safe stories that only exist to sell merch. At least bad movies can be enjoyable in an ironic way, or at least have unused potencial. What can you do with an uninteresting movie?
@@hunterolaughlinI know right, while I personally am not the biggest fan of the minion movie, all the other ones were great in my opinion. I’d even dare to say the 2nd one was better than the first. I just love Gru and Lucy’s dynamic so much.
Your sentence structure absolutely fucks with my head. It sounded like the entire video was one sentence.
I love how MetroMan was a red-herring villain in a way. Because of how arrogant and universally beloved he was his entire childhood and superhero life, we just assume he's going to be the badguy at the end of the day, then the movie twists it on us and makes him seemingly die right before the middle of the film, and removes him from the main plot entirely.
And when it's revealed he IS still alive it's not so he can be a secret shadowy mastermind orchestrating evil from behind the curtains, it's so that he... can pursue a humble career in musical arts! And it turns out that aside from having an ego, he's a very chill dude, actually.
I love Megamind! I wish we had more stories like that one.
UNTIL NOW.
I also think that deep down, he didn't actually want to beat Metroman. In all honesty their encounters almost feels like "playing" including their banter.
One thing to always remember about megamind is that he’s not EVIL he would never hurt or mean to kill someone. He just likes the role of a villain he’s like an actor playing a part. Megamind loves the concept of GOOD VS EVIL BUT HES NOT EVIL
Well, this didn’t age well
I so want this movie to get a sequel!! There are so many fun directions a sequel could go for these characters.
Ahhh...
Who was the true hero in the beginning? Metro Man.
Who was the true villain in the beginning?
Megamind.
You get it, right? He was the villain, and he was happy like that! He saw it not as a serious thing, but a game. And he LOVED it. Until the hero was "killed". He enjoyed it for a while, but then just sadly stares out the big window of City Hall, questioning his purpose.
Now, let's invert the questions.
Who was the true villain in the end?
Hal.
Who was the true hero in the end?
Megamind.
At this point, Hal had turned to the purest dark side and saw it as his job. Megamind, however, still saw their battle as a game. Until he heard the line "Oh no, I was thinking more like the mourge. You're dead!" from Hal/Titan. He was downright terrified when he heard that his life was at risk. He fled, instead of submitting and dying, showing his fear and the fact that he never expected to die. Metro Man never took lives, he just imprisoned Megamind. Titan was the villain, simply and utterly.
Who else can't look at Metroman and not think of Markiplier?
i see😂
Man, it sure is a shame that they never made a sequel or anything
Guess we just need to live with having on the 1 movie
They did and it’s called The Button of Doom but some people call it The Doom Syndicate for some reason lol
@@TheAmazingPeterB Yeah it's weird that they misuse the word Doom and think it refers to a group that could never exist instead of a very real button.
Megamind was Not Actually Evil Just Misunderstood
Yup,he delivers that line much better than Chelsea could ever do
For real though ❤
As Joker said, “Without Batman, crime has no punchline.”
Without a doubt, this is the most non-stop commentary I have ever encountered in a movie retrospective. Granted, I watch all TH-cam videos (sans music) at 2x, so it is little wonder the commentary reminds me of those old commercials depicting that fast-talking guy, John Moschitta, in FedEx commercials. I am not complaining, just commenting. Keep 'em coming.
9:17
I didn't notice this when I watched the movie, but you can see a slight like glitch in the camera that is later revealed to be Metroman doing his existential crisis thing
this aged well
"(The Boss Baby) was the dumbest thing DreamWorks has ever done"
Welp. This is no longer a true statement.
Now THAT’S a video!
That’s how you analyse a MasterPiece of a film!
Not bringing Metro Man back was an amazing decision!
the most awesome and yet disturbing in this movie is actually tighten's lifelikeness
i mean, there's no real megamind or metroman out there, but there's a f'ckton of tighten-like creeps around the world and it's scary how crazy they can go when they got power in any sense
Its not "Tighten", ist "Titan". But Hal has no education to know the titans. Look at Disney's Hercules to know the titans. And forshadowing: the greec titans are not good, they stand against the goods.
@@ulrichheiwolt6120megamind called him titan, but when hal burns his name into metrocity he spells it tighten cause hes an idiot.
so most fans prefer using tighten.
*cough, cough* Fred Phelps
if you go through the video and look at the scene where the civilians are watching megamind and metroman you can see metroman flicker for a split second and you can see something appear behind megamind. This was a foreshadowing of metroman's super speed.
Minion is literally the best supervillain minion/sidekick
The line “you may be a villain but you’re not super”
“What’s the difference?”
“PRESENTATION!!”
Lives rent free in my head
In retrospect, this aged terribly 😭😭