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I saw a video with theory that the whole thing between Megamind and Metromen was created by government to protect the society from second one. Like, think a little about it. Megamind can harm nothing without resources, but Metromen (as Titan shows us) it's something like natural disaster. With wrong education we can get a Homelender (but literally unbeatable). So, the government build a school where Megamind can antagonize Metroman and don't really fight against the blue one until he get to his perfect villain shape. That was needed to give Metromen purpose in his life: to fight against Megamind and gain fame instead of becoming supervillian himself. P.S. Ways to make fight with Titan 10000 times easier: Metroman beat him with his superspeed (to make believeble illusion Megamind can use some of his blasters to shot Titan every time Metroman punches him); Metroman can beat Titan and use shapeshift-watch to turn himself into a Megamind in somekind of exosceleton. And everyone will think that Megamind did it (so Metroman can leave and has life of his dream)
I don’t think Megamind killed anyone. I think Metroman would’ve put him down if he did. His 88 life sentences are from property damage, breaking out of prison over and over again. Theft, and obviously kidnapping. And clearly he’s not any threat to Roxanne with her being perfectly comfortable with the circumstances. He did it SO much it added up to that because how constant he does it. He’s basically the ultimate troll rather than a proper villain.
And if Tighten had actually managed to kill anyone, it would look pretty bad for Metroman too, hiding out while an actual superpowered villain rampages. Because he could toast Tighten with one superpowered arm tied behind his back. I'm going to assume the good people of Metro City are exceptional at evacuating in a hurry.
No, property damage can't usually lead up to that severe a penalty. More likely though he would receive sentences for public endangerment and possibly acts of terror (terrorism). In the real world the latter would probably end up under federal jurisdiction and be dealt with very differently, so no idea how they would manage that in a comic book world. My general assumption is that every comic hero world has universally outlawed the death sentence, because none of it makes any sense otherwise. Stacked life sentences means that he was convicted of 87 different crimes, each carrying a life sentence likely making any of them a murder, especially since it was increased to 88 after having "killed" MetroMan. So if he were ever exonerated of any individual crime he still has to serve a life sentence for the rest. To be set free he would have to be either fully exonerated or pardoned of each conviction.
I mean, that's why Roxanne was so angry, rather than upset, when Metroman died. It's always been a game between the three of them, nobody had every gotten hurt before.
Sophie, can you believe that this movie was either looked upon as just okay by critics? This movie is an underrated masterpiece. I’m glad it’s growing much more of a following
@@SophieLents honestly. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the Nostalgia Critic but he said even though he liked the movie, he pointed out it feels like we got The Incredibles again. Taking what should be a superhero comedy and actually making it pretty serious. I don’t think that’s such a bad thing. If anything, I feel like it makes movies like these more adult
@@blakeforkins7375 This is way better than the Increadibles. Also Nostaglia Critic is one of the worst people on the internet, he probably underestimated the movie because the character who was most like him in the movie was Hal.
I think it's because it came out with the other "minion" filled movie, which was about a villain yada yada yada yada. People thought it was somehow a copycat, released at pretty much the same time even when making a movie is not fast. I haven't seen the other one, I don't even remember the name but I honestly loved this movie as a kid and still do
@@SophieLents also he is more similar to Superman and he didn’t take megamind’s chance to be in a rich family their pods simply just crashed into each other.
Yellow Roses are actually a symbol of platonic friendship. While their lives revolved around each other, I feel over time Metro Man became the closest thing to a friend (other than Minion obviously)
didnt you know anytime a man shows any affection for another man it means theyre gay. thats why we can now say definatively sam and frodo are gay, along with david and johnathan.😂
I've said it before but I will say it again anyway... This movie with its little details is so good! Megamind and Minion keep their natural eye colour no matter who they turn into with their weird tech watch. So you can , once you know that , can clearly tell who is who without it being TOO obvious . Also Roxanne's dress changes from red (the opposite of blue) , to purple (red and blue mixed together) , to finally being blue towards the end , signifying her relationship with/opinion on Megamind throughout the movie. Also Also , Can we appreciate that Megamind knew Metroman well enough , or at least had fought him enough to know what kind of things he would say (while disguised as Metroman)
@@SophieLents neither did I first or even second viewing so don't worry. It is just so subtle yet it really helps with fleshing out the world and its characters.
@@Mgl1206 ...(sheepishly) "yeah..."that was probably too obvious huh?" But I am quite proud that I did already know about Roxy's dress and the "Megamind as Metroman" knowing what to say , when I first watched it (since I was like 8 at least when this came out). However , I didn't catch that Megamind and Minion kept their sam eye colour until the "Cinema Wins video.
@@marveldreamworks5330 As long as people are accepting that they are spreading the message from other sources and not taking them as their own, they get an upvote. So, here ya go!
"The only name I could trademark" does makes sense to me that they used "tighten". But titan is a fairly commonplace thing. Did the director elaborate on this? Hard to take this comment as is.
@@DARamosYT You should probably watch the movie again, there was a scene where Roxanne and titan first meet. She backs out of her room and sees the words Titan and he appears behind her.
Megamind and metro man looks like the two dude in chat room that always banters a lot. They didn't really hate each other but they fight who's more famous when they're both online. Megamind is the infamous troll and Metro man is the famous E-Girl on chat. Minion is the best friend of the troll who's just laughing and taking a potshot if he can
the scene where Hal flies Roxy around the city thinking he's being romantic is supposed to be a parallel to that famous scene in Superman where he does the same thing with Lois Lane.
YES! You have watched one of the most underrated movie of all time! :D Fun fact: if I remember correctly, the reason why Megamind was overlooked was because Despicable Me had been released recently as well. Both movies have the same storyline of the bad guy turned good guy and more people took to Despicable Me.
As of 2024 Camila was crowned Queen so there is, after a short time, another Queen of England. Its just that she ISN'T the Royal ruler of England, King Charles is.
21:44 What happens here is because since Metro Man tricked Megamind into thinking copper is his weakness, he uses it as a cage on Titan and is only surprised when he finds out it doesn't work because it did on Metro Man.
They really did well, putting Hal as a dangerous Nice Guy from the start. Megamind never killed anyone. Bernard got dehydrated into one of those cubes. He just got in trouble for property damage and escaping jail constantly. I feel like Dreamworks knew there was a cutoff point for a villain going too far to be redeemed.
Probably for kidnapping, too. Been reading a lot of extra Megamind stuff lately and there are a lot of little background things that don't really get addressed directly in the movie. Like when she asks if Megamind has kidnapped Roxanne hundreds of times? Yes. Yes, he has. And they've known each other since high school. The citizens of Metro City also love the hero/villain stuff. They know it's like a performance, so it's like going to see the light show each time. They even consider it safe enough to take babies to lol. However, when Titan/Tighten shows up, that's when everyone is afraid. No one is really afraid of Megamind because Megamind's not REALLY going to hurt them. He's more like a moving rock concert laser show with an epic battle at the end. Even when he takes over, he doesn't actually DO anything. Just leaves the citizens to do whatever they want while he graffitis and steals stuff.
I love how at the beggining you can see Metro Man playing a guitar at his school, those little details make the difference for me Edit: Well its an ukelele but my point stands xD
Also minion plays dead for a few seconds when re-hydrated in the school flashback!! Kind of foreshadowing his "death" in the final battle was fake too ghzghdgh
The only thing I would have liked to see different in this movie would have been Metroman apologizing to Megamind for not only making him into a villain, but ensuring that he stayed one. It was Metroman's treatment of him as a kid that made Metroman choose bad. And Metroman could have reversed it at almost any time. But I loved your reaction. Especially your appreciation of Minion. An aquatic Samwise Gamgee.
I kinda disagree, Metroman is just showing off and bathing in the glory, but he never actually goes out of his way to antagonize Megamind when theyre children
@@frenchynoob Except when Megamind has the accident with the popcorn, Metroman picks him up himself and puts him in the corner. It felt like he went out of his way to ostracize Megamind and make his accidents into him being bad. Like in dodgeball, making sure that he was not chosen last, but not chosen at all, and let the class in ganging up on him. And when Megamind stood up for himself with the helmet, he was, again, made to be the bad guy. Perhaps a difference in opinion, or how we interpret the scenes, but I really see Metroman as a classic popular bully, who saw how much more popular he could be with both the other kids, and the teacher, by picking on the weird blue kid from prison.
@@samuelvincent557 Given Metroman's teacher obviously didn't reprimand him for it, she would've done it herself. Metroman as a kid was a teacher's pet with extra authority.
That's what society made of them. They made Megamind a villain for Metroman to fight so he doesn't become a villain himself and destroy the whole world.
Such a minor detail that's easy to miss, when the holo disguise is used, the eye color doesn't change so you can tell the green eyes for Megamind and the brown for eyes for Minion, verses the Warden's blue eyes
Just as a friendly heads up: Bernard was Not killed, just dehydrated into a cube. There’s even an after credits scene, we’re apparently he hadn’t taken the cube out of his pajama pocket, and Bernard was rehydrated…. In the washing machine….. then minion hit him with the forget-me-stick. So he’s fine…ish.
Well in terms of flower symbology, Yellow Roses symbolize friendship. So I don't think Megamind was in love with Metroman, but I think he did see their rivalry as some kind of odd friendship. Also Hal is the definition of an internet 'Nice Guy'.
Metromans new passion is music BECAUSE he's so bad at it, because it's the one thing his powers can't help him with, therefore he's getting better on his own talents.
The thing I love about Megamind is he's never physically hurt anyone on purpose, he only has his rivalry with Metro Man that causes property damage and sometimes the kidnapping of Roxanne Ritchi, who knows him well enough by this point to understand he's not a threat to her life despite all his appearances to look as evil as possible. It really shows you that Megamind was never a villain, he just wanted to be loved like Metro Man. When he fell in love with Roxanne, it was through pretending he was "Bernard" and not the villain that she hated. He was too focused on finally receiving love and affection to realize how horrible it was to continue in that lie. So when he realized he messed up and Hal was actually a danger to her life, which Megamind had never been (until he'd decided to create a hero), he regained his fighting spirit. What used to be his love for banter with Metro Man, became his protectiveness for Roxanne.
Hal is ... A Nice Guy. Not a guy that's actually nice, they just "play nice" to get the girls, do nice stuff expecting a reward from her while being kinda creepy about it and super entitled and if the girl reject them, they'll go violent and insult them. At the time, TV was big on the "Even losers can be heroes and deserves the girl" trope, how peoples not exactly liked by fate would still conquer the odds and charm the girl they wanted and live happily ever after, due to their good personality. Hal thought he was that guy, that now that he "conquered the odds" he would get Roxanne because what kept her away from him if it wasn't for the lack of powers, amiright ?? But he never was a good guy, and the moment he didn't get what he wanted, he threw a tantrum, showing that he wasn't deserving of either powers, or Roxanne.
Awesome movie! This movie touches very interesting themes. One of them is the importance of struggle to obtain happiness. I said 'struggle' and not 'purpose' and i'm goint to clarify why. The message is that we only can appreciate things obtained with effort. We know that the movie is about Megamind finding himself bored and melancholic after 'killing' Metroman, but the same thing happened to Metroman before. We can see how insanely powerful Metroman is. For him, almost nothing is a challenge. Being a superhero is nor fun for him at all. But Megamind IS happy and you can tell. He never ever wins, but he enjoys the constant challenges and loves to build inventions and to plan his next prison break. I like to think Metroman envies Megamind happiness and finally realizes why. Metroman fakes his death and starts a new hobby: playing the guitar and sing. It looks silly at first but there is a reason for him choosing that: he is AWFUL at it. What he wants is to achieve success trough work and struggle, and his awesome powers don't help in his new career, and that's exactly what he needs. Nobody lost their purpose: Metroman had a purpose, defend Metrocity. Megamind has a purpose, doing villain things (he still does that when he is depressed, like blowing Metroman's Museum). But defending Metrocity bores Metroman because it's too easy for him, and doing villain things bores Megamind after Metroman's 'death' because it's also too easy. Both characters grow thanks to self-imposed challenges: Metroman becomes Musicman, and Megamind builds a Hero to fight against. They were unhappy not because they lost their purpose, but because they lost the struggle. So this is the message: don't do things only because they are easy, do the things that fulfill you, even if they are harder. Happiness is more important than success, and that's a powerful message in our success-obsessed society of today. It's not the main theme of the movie, but it's a interesting one, and that's why i'm commenting on it here.
I think the other lesser talked about is lacking confidence. Hal is the perfect example: When he talks and acts towards Roxanne he lacks confidence in what he wants to say, and he doesn't know what to say. However he does get that confidence when he goes to help Roxanne at megaminds hide out. However we don't feel sorry for Hal because its written beautifully to make him a villain. His emotions over ride his thinking. especially when he talks to mega mind saying he only took the gig for the girl. and its strengthened when he steals. But we should feel sad.
I'd like to point something out. Roxanne dumped both Hal and Megamind in the same night, but look at how they both took it. Hal's an entitled incel who tried to destroy everything in a prolonged temper tantrum because he has no conscience and was generally a creep who hit on her in every interaction, despite her obvious disinterest in him beyond being friends and coworkers. Megamind accepted her rejection as he acknowledged and agreed with her reasoning before returning to the villain routine. She unintentionally made him want to be a good person, and he ended up concluding he couldn't be one. In conclusion, Hal was always a horrible person before becoming Titan, and Megamind was always a good person stuck on a bad path and couldn't see a way off it.
Awesome reaction! I loved this movie for its' humor when I was younger, but watching it as I got older, they did really well at portraying the struggles of different archtypes and really making you connect and understand them. The one who just didn't fit in, the golden boy put on the pedestal, learning to make their own way, and the choices that they make. Love it!
The reason Megamind didn't fly near the end was because he didn't have his flying tech (probably fell off or got broken during battle). When he was flying earlier as Metroman, he was wearing it, but it got cloaked. He was basically using all his tech to recreate Metroman in looks and abilities (which is why it's so GODDAMN smart that he got caught because of how he pronounced Metrocity). And from there, he faked it until he made it to make Titan leave, knowing he was no match for Metroman.
Okay first off, love your reaction too the movie and love that you loved all the jokes. And second, those Stewie memes with Roxanne were freakin hilarious 😆
there are several continuity details that some know, some don't. first was the forget me spray fizzling out (ran out before hal). second was the single frame of metroman appearing on the big display behind Megamind. one of my favorites was the Highway to hell being censored on every "hell" in the lyrics.
23:46 Is funny that Hal didn't really misspelled his villain name but most people confused his name with Titan when it's actually Tighten thats why it says Tightenville Ps. Loved the reaction, can you react to Sing?
The main reason this movie is so underrated is because it was in theaters at the same time as 'Despicable Me'. For some reason when two great movies come out at the same time people tend to pick sides rather than just love both movies. People were accusing Megamind of ripping off 'minions' from Despicable Me and people who loved that movie tended not to watch this one. Stupid I know, but no one ever accused large crowds of being intelligent.
If you think about it, Megamind and Nick from Zootopia are the same character. "If this is all they're gonna see when they look at me, I'm not going to dissuade them."
I gotta love the puns of Megamind and that musical taste. . . . . Hmmm awesome. . . . Edit1 nobody notice how Roxane change her dress color from Red (Metro man) to Blue (Megamind)
Minion is a name given to henchmen of super villainsMinion is a name given to henchmen of super villains That's why the Minions got their name because their meaning in life is to serve a super villain
If you watch it again, watch carefully metroman during the speech of megamind. You can see him "flash" because it is the moment when he decided to find himself
In all seriousness I felt so incredibly cheated when I saw this show (on VHS!) without ever previously being aware of its existence! It was a gem and should have gotten so much more love on release. Glad more are discovering it now.
@@tristanmireles8994 Metro man has some type of god complex bc he literally walks on water in the beginning so literally megamind is just an ant to him
To clear a few things up: Roxanne wasted time telling Megamind that she did look back, to get Megamind to notice the invisible car without revealing it to Tighten. If Tighten knew what it was he'd probably have just blown it up or something. Megamind's ability to fly wasn't from the disguise watch, he had a separate machine to mimic Metroman's powers strapped to his back. Tighten destroyed the machine during the fight before Megamind made it to the invisible car.
A theory on why Megamind was just kept in prison since infancy: his own safety. If the prison gave him up, the government wold be the first to snatch up the alien life form that couldn't yet advocate for itself and disappear it into some underground lab forever. The warden and any other prison official who watched over him from the beginning probably realized that and did the best thing they could in the situation. As long as Megamind was under the prison's jurisdiction, the government couldn't touch him.
2:45 That entire bit about accepting other people is extremely relatable. I was never accepted by anyone expect family thought my entire childhood, now I'm also not accepted, to the point that when people se me literally for first time they start pushing me to the side and ignoring me like if I have a giant IDIOT written on my head. Seriously after 20 years it gets annoying:( at least I have 2 friends who were also rejected by everyone ( but now they re actually liked by many people, meanwhille for me nothing changed even if I tried and wanted to change everything). I have hope that it will change but not much is left from that hope...
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This film is criminally underrated. It unfortunately was released within a similar timeframe to Despicable Me (which of course had the bloody yellow minions to win over the kids) and unfortunately Megamind’s marketing was just not up to scratch for such an amazing story, so Despicable Me got the limelight and yet another amazing non-Shrek Dreamworks film got forgotten about. Except for the cult following and meme communities 😆 I’d highly recommend Rise of the Guardians if you haven’t seen it! That’s another of their best work!
I have Mandela effect becose I don't remember they are at same year I think megamind movie was released 2 years before than despeciable me trailer of the piramid disappear
22:22 "Honestly, i'm not sure if a more self-absorved hero EVER existed" Superman has a whole fortress in the artic called "Fortress of Solitude" only accesible to him. Batman has a cave filled to the top with Bat-stuff. Everything he has literally has "bat" in front of it. Ironman has multiple "Stark" branches. I mean... I can think of a few...
This movie is from my childhood. I loved it then, and love it even more now. Truly a legendary film. 👌 Oh, and I don’t think Megamind’s actually evil at all. In any way. He just plays the role, but nothing about him tells you that his instinct and his inherent personality is evil and malicious. He was just taught to do it, and then embraced it when trying to be good turned him away. He thought there were two roles and if he couldn’t be one, then he must be the other. It’s a little bit sad, if you think about it.
just a normal wendsday, falling in love with a guy and then realizing is the guy who killed my ex, but still dating him after the creepy guy who liked me try to kill both of us and then realizing my ex is actually alive but after all that we still being all happy together after killing the creepy dude... Seriously, roxanne has no peace
In the beginning, when Megamind is ordering the laser to fire, if you pay really close attention, you see Metroman blip out for a second and show up behind Megamind, as foreshadowing for later when he's retelling the story about using his super speed to clear his head.
9:42. Oh totally get that. I've got a similar thing with Killmonger. Of course I dont agree with the way he's fighting his battles, but... he's a hottie, so naturally I like him.
I'm glad Dreamworks made good movies like this one, the Dragons and Kung fu panda trilogies, Rise of the guardians (It's literally avengers for kids; a group of likable and funny heroes teamed up to defeat a serious and creepy villain. I love it :D) Spirit, Simbad, Road to Eldorado, Antz, Prince of egypt. I'm not that happy they made Boss baby 1 and 2, Shark tale and Turbo. Thoses were really awful! Except the animation, nothing about them was good or entertaining. The humor was lame, the music was boring, the characters were either stupid or annoying, the villain was a joke (The twist one in turbo was just horrible!) They got more good movies than bad ones luckily!
what i find great about this movie, is that metro man isnt a bad guy, he is just a guy, same as megamind, who didnt realy had much choice in his life, he chose to be a musician, the one thing is is NOT good at, so that he could acctuly have a chalenge, and he saw in megamind the potention of being a new hero.
Sophie, if Megamind actually killed anyone before the whole Metro Man faking his death thing happened, he wouldn't have 88 life sentences in prison, he'd be either on death row, or have been executed by now. Considering you thought having that many life sentences meant he killed a lot of people, that would make him enemy number one. He wouldn't be able to live in Metro City without the police and Metro Man busting down his door within an hour or so. I'm talking S.W.A.T. team, F.B.I., interpol, the works. They'd all be on him so quick.
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I saw a video with theory that the whole thing between Megamind and Metromen was created by government to protect the society from second one. Like, think a little about it. Megamind can harm nothing without resources, but Metromen (as Titan shows us) it's something like natural disaster. With wrong education we can get a Homelender (but literally unbeatable). So, the government build a school where Megamind can antagonize Metroman and don't really fight against the blue one until he get to his perfect villain shape. That was needed to give Metromen purpose in his life: to fight against Megamind and gain fame instead of becoming supervillian himself.
P.S. Ways to make fight with Titan 10000 times easier: Metroman beat him with his superspeed (to make believeble illusion Megamind can use some of his blasters to shot Titan every time Metroman punches him); Metroman can beat Titan and use shapeshift-watch to turn himself into a Megamind in somekind of exosceleton. And everyone will think that Megamind did it (so Metroman can leave and has life of his dream)
Hey thanks for not being judgy about BDSM. If it's NOT CONSENSUAL then it's NOT BDSM, just abuse. There's a difference.
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Also can I suggest you watch Brother bear 2, the Jurassic park/world movies and the Monsterverse movies(Godzilla and Kong movies)
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I don’t think Megamind killed anyone. I think Metroman would’ve put him down if he did. His 88 life sentences are from property damage, breaking out of prison over and over again. Theft, and obviously kidnapping. And clearly he’s not any threat to Roxanne with her being perfectly comfortable with the circumstances. He did it SO much it added up to that because how constant he does it. He’s basically the ultimate troll rather than a proper villain.
And if Tighten had actually managed to kill anyone, it would look pretty bad for Metroman too, hiding out while an actual superpowered villain rampages. Because he could toast Tighten with one superpowered arm tied behind his back. I'm going to assume the good people of Metro City are exceptional at evacuating in a hurry.
@@mattp6089 No, because metroman was "dead" at this point.
@@mattp6089 I'm pretty sure he would still return in that case, he was watching the translation on TV.
No, property damage can't usually lead up to that severe a penalty. More likely though he would receive sentences for public endangerment and possibly acts of terror (terrorism). In the real world the latter would probably end up under federal jurisdiction and be dealt with very differently, so no idea how they would manage that in a comic book world. My general assumption is that every comic hero world has universally outlawed the death sentence, because none of it makes any sense otherwise.
Stacked life sentences means that he was convicted of 87 different crimes, each carrying a life sentence likely making any of them a murder, especially since it was increased to 88 after having "killed" MetroMan. So if he were ever exonerated of any individual crime he still has to serve a life sentence for the rest. To be set free he would have to be either fully exonerated or pardoned of each conviction.
I mean, that's why Roxanne was so angry, rather than upset, when Metroman died. It's always been a game between the three of them, nobody had every gotten hurt before.
He didn't actually kill Bernard
He froze him
With his dehydration gun
yeah, I only saw the post-credit scene while editing haha
Oh ok
Yeah problem we never see him rehydrated...like ever 😳 unless that scene was cut out
@@jakedull2553 that scene was in the post credits. Minion puts megaminds pants in the wash and it rehydrates bernard
@@jakedull2553 And that's why I always sit through the credits.
Sophie, can you believe that this movie was either looked upon as just okay by critics? This movie is an underrated masterpiece. I’m glad it’s growing much more of a following
I really don’t get it….
@@SophieLents honestly. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the Nostalgia Critic but he said even though he liked the movie, he pointed out it feels like we got The Incredibles again. Taking what should be a superhero comedy and actually making it pretty serious. I don’t think that’s such a bad thing. If anything, I feel like it makes movies like these more adult
@@blakeforkins7375 This is way better than the Increadibles. Also Nostaglia Critic is one of the worst people on the internet, he probably underestimated the movie because the character who was most like him in the movie was Hal.
I think it's because it came out with the other "minion" filled movie, which was about a villain yada yada yada yada. People thought it was somehow a copycat, released at pretty much the same time even when making a movie is not fast.
I haven't seen the other one, I don't even remember the name but I honestly loved this movie as a kid and still do
@@hazamax2139 really? Well that’s a shame. I like the first Despicable Me fine but I think this movie is far better than any of those other ones
I love how she hates metroman instantly😂
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23:15 me too.
@@SophieLents also he is more similar to Superman and he didn’t take megamind’s chance to be in a rich family their pods simply just crashed into each other.
Markiplier vibes.
Yellow Roses are actually a symbol of platonic friendship. While their lives revolved around each other, I feel over time Metro Man became the closest thing to a friend (other than Minion obviously)
I noticed the color of the roses also. although a bisexual Megamind would of been interesting lol
didnt you know anytime a man shows any affection for another man it means theyre gay.
thats why we can now say definatively sam and frodo are gay, along with david and johnathan.😂
Dawg, what? No, that's not how it works
I've said it before but I will say it again anyway... This movie with its little details is so good! Megamind and Minion keep their natural eye colour no matter who they turn into with their weird tech watch. So you can , once you know that , can clearly tell who is who without it being TOO obvious . Also Roxanne's dress changes from red (the opposite of blue) , to purple (red and blue mixed together) , to finally being blue towards the end , signifying her relationship with/opinion on Megamind throughout the movie.
Also Also , Can we appreciate that Megamind knew Metroman well enough , or at least had fought him enough to know what kind of things he would say (while disguised as Metroman)
I didn’t notice all of that!
@@SophieLents neither did I first or even second viewing so don't worry. It is just so subtle yet it really helps with fleshing out the world and its characters.
Someone's been watching "Cinema Wins"
@@Mgl1206 ...(sheepishly) "yeah..."that was probably too obvious huh?" But I am quite proud that I did already know about Roxy's dress and the "Megamind as Metroman" knowing what to say , when I first watched it (since I was like 8 at least when this came out). However , I didn't catch that Megamind and Minion kept their sam eye colour until the "Cinema Wins video.
@@marveldreamworks5330 As long as people are accepting that they are spreading the message from other sources and not taking them as their own, they get an upvote.
So, here ya go!
The fact that she called Metroman a "Walmart version of captain America" and not an "Elvis Presley superman" is just hilarious to me
This movie is so awesome it made the audience root for a supervillain and against the superhero.
I loved it!!
Hall because Metroman is COOL too
@@irasemam3146 is he tho
Megamind becomes a superhero though...
@@TOASTYDREAMSTER well he looks cool in his Markiplier form
1:10 minion used to be a word before it got ruined
@Ana Pinto She does. Look at 16:54
How dare you I love those yellow bean looking idiot's
Water is wet, the sun is scorching hot and Megamind is so underrated - simple truths.
Akshually. Water isn't "wet" .
@@blobbertmcblob4888 - water is saturated by water, so it is, in fact, "wet."
sun is warm, Grass is green lol
And there is no queen of England
The Metroman disguise was just that, a disguise, only visual. Megamind could fly because he wore a jetpack in reality, which Titan broke afterwards.
Actually, the Titan/Tighten jokes are intentional and not misspelling
Yeah Titan/Hal misunderstands Megamind and/or can't spell it so calls himself "Tighten" lol
@@marveldreamworks5330 i like to think that Titan is the hero in the mind of Megamind and Thighten is the villain that turned to be real.
"The only name I could trademark" does makes sense to me that they used "tighten". But titan is a fairly commonplace thing. Did the director elaborate on this? Hard to take this comment as is.
@@DARamosYT You should probably watch the movie again, there was a scene where Roxanne and titan first meet. She backs out of her room and sees the words Titan and he appears behind her.
Megamind and metro man looks like the two dude in chat room that always banters a lot. They didn't really hate each other but they fight who's more famous when they're both online.
Megamind is the infamous troll and Metro man is the famous E-Girl on chat.
Minion is the best friend of the troll who's just laughing and taking a potshot if he can
Underrated comment.
the scene where Hal flies Roxy around the city thinking he's being romantic is supposed to be a parallel to that famous scene in Superman where he does the same thing with Lois Lane.
YES! You have watched one of the most underrated movie of all time! :D Fun fact: if I remember correctly, the reason why Megamind was overlooked was because Despicable Me had been released recently as well. Both movies have the same storyline of the bad guy turned good guy and more people took to Despicable Me.
And the Despicable Me is the movie with minions, right? 😂
@@SophieLents haha, yep XD
Yeah, both came out 2010, but personally I prefer Megamind
@@mercedeslp Despicable Me is not even close to Megamind IMHO.
Megamind is, hands down, the better movie, but Despicable Me was released before, had more kid appeal and it's not a bad movie either.
My favorite scene in this movie is Space dad 😂
“So you’re like… my space dad?”
👀
“Yea… I’m like your space daa”
I’m your space step mom
this is for Space Step Mom. You lied to her!
25:01 OH BOY HOW THAT LINE HAS AGED OVER THE YEARS
ESPECIALLY NOW THAT THE QUEEN HAS PASSED FROM THIS WORLD TO ANOTHER.
As of 2024 Camila was crowned Queen so there is, after a short time, another Queen of England. Its just that she ISN'T the Royal ruler of England, King Charles is.
The Microwave of Evil bit gets me to this day, even a over decade after I saw this movie in cinema it hasn't lost any of its charm
21:44 What happens here is because since Metro Man tricked Megamind into thinking copper is his weakness, he uses it as a cage on Titan and is only surprised when he finds out it doesn't work because it did on Metro Man.
They really did well, putting Hal as a dangerous Nice Guy from the start.
Megamind never killed anyone. Bernard got dehydrated into one of those cubes. He just got in trouble for property damage and escaping jail constantly. I feel like Dreamworks knew there was a cutoff point for a villain going too far to be redeemed.
Probably for kidnapping, too.
Been reading a lot of extra Megamind stuff lately and there are a lot of little background things that don't really get addressed directly in the movie.
Like when she asks if Megamind has kidnapped Roxanne hundreds of times?
Yes. Yes, he has. And they've known each other since high school.
The citizens of Metro City also love the hero/villain stuff. They know it's like a performance, so it's like going to see the light show each time. They even consider it safe enough to take babies to lol.
However, when Titan/Tighten shows up, that's when everyone is afraid. No one is really afraid of Megamind because Megamind's not REALLY going to hurt them. He's more like a moving rock concert laser show with an epic battle at the end.
Even when he takes over, he doesn't actually DO anything. Just leaves the citizens to do whatever they want while he graffitis and steals stuff.
I love how at the beggining you can see Metro Man playing a guitar at his school, those little details make the difference for me
Edit: Well its an ukelele but my point stands xD
bro the millions of times I've seen this and I never put the two together!! That's great detail XD
And thus MusicMan was born!
@@spacedinosaur8733 now he can keep his logo
Also minion plays dead for a few seconds when re-hydrated in the school flashback!! Kind of foreshadowing his "death" in the final battle was fake too ghzghdgh
@@fighterx9840 I have eyeees that can seeee right through leeeeeaaed
The only thing I would have liked to see different in this movie would have been Metroman apologizing to Megamind for not only making him into a villain, but ensuring that he stayed one. It was Metroman's treatment of him as a kid that made Metroman choose bad. And Metroman could have reversed it at almost any time.
But I loved your reaction. Especially your appreciation of Minion. An aquatic Samwise Gamgee.
I kinda disagree, Metroman is just showing off and bathing in the glory, but he never actually goes out of his way to antagonize Megamind when theyre children
@@frenchynoob Except when Megamind has the accident with the popcorn, Metroman picks him up himself and puts him in the corner. It felt like he went out of his way to ostracize Megamind and make his accidents into him being bad. Like in dodgeball, making sure that he was not chosen last, but not chosen at all, and let the class in ganging up on him. And when Megamind stood up for himself with the helmet, he was, again, made to be the bad guy.
Perhaps a difference in opinion, or how we interpret the scenes, but I really see Metroman as a classic popular bully, who saw how much more popular he could be with both the other kids, and the teacher, by picking on the weird blue kid from prison.
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Given Metroman's teacher obviously didn't reprimand him for it, she would've done it herself.
Metroman as a kid was a teacher's pet with extra authority.
They already made Metroman shockingly not horrible in the final act, going any further would be lil out of character
That's what society made of them. They made Megamind a villain for Metroman to fight so he doesn't become a villain himself and destroy the whole world.
Such a minor detail that's easy to miss, when the holo disguise is used, the eye color doesn't change so you can tell the green eyes for Megamind and the brown for eyes for Minion, verses the Warden's blue eyes
Just as a friendly heads up:
Bernard was Not killed, just dehydrated into a cube.
There’s even an after credits scene, we’re apparently he hadn’t taken the cube out of his pajama pocket, and Bernard was rehydrated…. In the washing machine….. then minion hit him with the forget-me-stick.
So he’s fine…ish.
Well in terms of flower symbology, Yellow Roses symbolize friendship. So I don't think Megamind was in love with Metroman, but I think he did see their rivalry as some kind of odd friendship.
Also Hal is the definition of an internet 'Nice Guy'.
Metromans new passion is music BECAUSE he's so bad at it, because it's the one thing his powers can't help him with, therefore he's getting better on his own talents.
The thing I love about Megamind is he's never physically hurt anyone on purpose, he only has his rivalry with Metro Man that causes property damage and sometimes the kidnapping of Roxanne Ritchi, who knows him well enough by this point to understand he's not a threat to her life despite all his appearances to look as evil as possible. It really shows you that Megamind was never a villain, he just wanted to be loved like Metro Man.
When he fell in love with Roxanne, it was through pretending he was "Bernard" and not the villain that she hated. He was too focused on finally receiving love and affection to realize how horrible it was to continue in that lie.
So when he realized he messed up and Hal was actually a danger to her life, which Megamind had never been (until he'd decided to create a hero), he regained his fighting spirit. What used to be his love for banter with Metro Man, became his protectiveness for Roxanne.
Fun fact for you and anyone who might not know, Megamind is voiced by Will Ferrel. The same guy who played Buddy the Elf.
When Metroman shows up in the crowd at the end: Hello, everybody! My name's Markiplier...
I love this movie, the way they expose the "nice guy" it's awesome.
Btw u r so underrated!!
Thank you 🌟
Hal is ... A Nice Guy. Not a guy that's actually nice, they just "play nice" to get the girls, do nice stuff expecting a reward from her while being kinda creepy about it and super entitled and if the girl reject them, they'll go violent and insult them.
At the time, TV was big on the "Even losers can be heroes and deserves the girl" trope, how peoples not exactly liked by fate would still conquer the odds and charm the girl they wanted and live happily ever after, due to their good personality. Hal thought he was that guy, that now that he "conquered the odds" he would get Roxanne because what kept her away from him if it wasn't for the lack of powers, amiright ??
But he never was a good guy, and the moment he didn't get what he wanted, he threw a tantrum, showing that he wasn't deserving of either powers, or Roxanne.
Okay, calling Metroman "The Golden Retriever" was perfect! I never heard that one before, well done.
Awesome movie!
This movie touches very interesting themes. One of them is the importance of struggle to obtain happiness. I said 'struggle' and not 'purpose' and i'm goint to clarify why. The message is that we only can appreciate things obtained with effort.
We know that the movie is about Megamind finding himself bored and melancholic after 'killing' Metroman, but the same thing happened to Metroman before. We can see how insanely powerful Metroman is. For him, almost nothing is a challenge. Being a superhero is nor fun for him at all. But Megamind IS happy and you can tell. He never ever wins, but he enjoys the constant challenges and loves to build inventions and to plan his next prison break. I like to think Metroman envies Megamind happiness and finally realizes why.
Metroman fakes his death and starts a new hobby: playing the guitar and sing. It looks silly at first but there is a reason for him choosing that: he is AWFUL at it. What he wants is to achieve success trough work and struggle, and his awesome powers don't help in his new career, and that's exactly what he needs.
Nobody lost their purpose: Metroman had a purpose, defend Metrocity. Megamind has a purpose, doing villain things (he still does that when he is depressed, like blowing Metroman's Museum). But defending Metrocity bores Metroman because it's too easy for him, and doing villain things bores Megamind after Metroman's 'death' because it's also too easy.
Both characters grow thanks to self-imposed challenges: Metroman becomes Musicman, and Megamind builds a Hero to fight against. They were unhappy not because they lost their purpose, but because they lost the struggle.
So this is the message: don't do things only because they are easy, do the things that fulfill you, even if they are harder. Happiness is more important than success, and that's a powerful message in our success-obsessed society of today.
It's not the main theme of the movie, but it's a interesting one, and that's why i'm commenting on it here.
I think the other lesser talked about is lacking confidence. Hal is the perfect example: When he talks and acts towards Roxanne he lacks confidence in what he wants to say, and he doesn't know what to say. However he does get that confidence when he goes to help Roxanne at megaminds hide out. However we don't feel sorry for Hal because its written beautifully to make him a villain. His emotions over ride his thinking. especially when he talks to mega mind saying he only took the gig for the girl. and its strengthened when he steals. But we should feel sad.
I'd like to point something out. Roxanne dumped both Hal and Megamind in the same night, but look at how they both took it.
Hal's an entitled incel who tried to destroy everything in a prolonged temper tantrum because he has no conscience and was generally a creep who hit on her in every interaction, despite her obvious disinterest in him beyond being friends and coworkers.
Megamind accepted her rejection as he acknowledged and agreed with her reasoning before returning to the villain routine. She unintentionally made him want to be a good person, and he ended up concluding he couldn't be one.
In conclusion, Hal was always a horrible person before becoming Titan, and Megamind was always a good person stuck on a bad path and couldn't see a way off it.
Awesome reaction! I loved this movie for its' humor when I was younger, but watching it as I got older, they did really well at portraying the struggles of different archtypes and really making you connect and understand them. The one who just didn't fit in, the golden boy put on the pedestal, learning to make their own way, and the choices that they make. Love it!
Yeah, absolutely!
DreamWorks really needs to make a sequel to this movie! It absolutely deserves one!
There was a game sequel if I remember correctly
The reason Megamind didn't fly near the end was because he didn't have his flying tech (probably fell off or got broken during battle). When he was flying earlier as Metroman, he was wearing it, but it got cloaked. He was basically using all his tech to recreate Metroman in looks and abilities (which is why it's so GODDAMN smart that he got caught because of how he pronounced Metrocity). And from there, he faked it until he made it to make Titan leave, knowing he was no match for Metroman.
Okay first off, love your reaction too the movie and love that you loved all the jokes. And second, those Stewie memes with Roxanne were freakin hilarious 😆
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@@SophieLents love the ❤️❤️as well 😁
there are several continuity details that some know, some don't. first was the forget me spray fizzling out (ran out before hal). second was the single frame of metroman appearing on the big display behind Megamind.
one of my favorites was the Highway to hell being censored on every "hell" in the lyrics.
If you pay attention, you'll see megamind was wearing a jetpack, which is why he was flying as metro man
Fun fact about the flowers at 12:16 yellow roses represent friendship. Nothing romantic at all.
6:45 Always loved how they already have this aggressively flirty banter WAY before they started falling in love
The intro...once again is a masterpiece. BTW Sophie your mic sounds no different Lol
23:46 Is funny that Hal didn't really misspelled his villain name but most people confused his name with Titan when it's actually Tighten thats why it says Tightenville
Ps. Loved the reaction, can you react to Sing?
Sing is on my list ;)
@@SophieLents Yes, I haven't se many people react to Sing last I searched there was only one reaction to the movie and in my opinion is a great movie
But when Roxanne looks at paper lists in her house, they spell Titan.
22:02
"one oppressor changes to other,
you know how it goes,
it never ends well but you know..."
that was basically a haiku...
Megamind is such a good movie! David Cross as his minion is so good 😂 - Sam
Who would I be without you?
Me: MusicMan!
The main reason this movie is so underrated is because it was in theaters at the same time as 'Despicable Me'. For some reason when two great movies come out at the same time people tend to pick sides rather than just love both movies. People were accusing Megamind of ripping off 'minions' from Despicable Me and people who loved that movie tended not to watch this one. Stupid I know, but no one ever accused large crowds of being intelligent.
So sad that mass audience can’t appreciate both movies at the same time
Part of the minion job description is getting taken for granted
If you think about it, Megamind and Nick from Zootopia are the same character.
"If this is all they're gonna see when they look at me, I'm not going to dissuade them."
What's this? Someone watching one of my favorite animated movies for the first time?
*five minutes in*
Oh no, she's adorable!
RUclips recommended has also brought me to this gem
I gotta love the puns of Megamind and that musical taste. . . . . Hmmm awesome. . . .
Edit1 nobody notice how Roxane change her dress color from Red (Metro man) to Blue (Megamind)
24:49 Well, he isn't wrong anymore... RIP.
24:56 "And there is no queen of england".... wow... that didn't age well...
Minion is a name given to henchmen of super villainsMinion is a name given to henchmen of super villains That's why the Minions got their name because their meaning in life is to serve a super villain
5:55, "Wait and see, they're gonna womit everywhere."
Ah yes, my favourite Aardman series. Gallace and Womit.
24:57 This line aged either like fine wine or milk. I can’t decide.
If you watch it again, watch carefully metroman during the speech of megamind. You can see him "flash" because it is the moment when he decided to find himself
In all seriousness I felt so incredibly cheated when I saw this show (on VHS!) without ever previously being aware of its existence! It was a gem and should have gotten so much more love on release. Glad more are discovering it now.
5:16 Fun detail, the eye color never changes when they're in disguise like that.
There is a post-credit scene that reveals what happened to Bernard.
This is one of the best Dreamworks/Pixar movies next to Kung Fu Panda in my opinion. I agree, it's definitely underated.
I don’t think Megamind killed anyone, he just kept escaping from jail so they upped his sentence lol
Yeah he was never that evil he was just misunderstood he wasn’t evil to point of killing somebody
they were pretty much messing around bc literally metroman has no weaknesses
@@jpeg.. yeah if metroman really wanted to he could’ve killed megamind everytime they fought but he just went on with there game
@@tristanmireles8994 Metro man has some type of god complex bc he literally walks on water in the beginning so literally megamind is just an ant to him
@@jpeg.. I bet he has a weakness but it was probably on his planet that got destroyed he’s literally Superman
😂 that intro got me wow. But for real I like this movie, very underrated, one of the best animated movies I've seen in a while.
26:20 Those were rocket boots, that watch only changes how he looks.
Incredible plot, amazing soundtrack and great VAs.
How is this movie so underrated!? Just because Despicable Me came out the same year (2010)?
Those prisoners take care of a blue alien child they didn't know. How cool was that
16:36 I wonder, how in the world Minion sniffs there... I mean, he is in that glass helmet... 😅😂
4:38
Love the eyeroll.
I'm so glad you loved it. I think its seriously one of the most underrated and overlooked movies.
To clear a few things up:
Roxanne wasted time telling Megamind that she did look back, to get Megamind to notice the invisible car without revealing it to Tighten. If Tighten knew what it was he'd probably have just blown it up or something.
Megamind's ability to fly wasn't from the disguise watch, he had a separate machine to mimic Metroman's powers strapped to his back. Tighten destroyed the machine during the fight before Megamind made it to the invisible car.
A theory on why Megamind was just kept in prison since infancy: his own safety. If the prison gave him up, the government wold be the first to snatch up the alien life form that couldn't yet advocate for itself and disappear it into some underground lab forever. The warden and any other prison official who watched over him from the beginning probably realized that and did the best thing they could in the situation. As long as Megamind was under the prison's jurisdiction, the government couldn't touch him.
"Girls, girls. You're both pretty 🙄 can I go home now? 😃" LOL
5:51 I never realized the Elvis music in the background til now, but now that I do- it’s perfect.
Goes with his hair. 😂
2:45 That entire bit about accepting other people is extremely relatable. I was never accepted by anyone expect family thought my entire childhood, now I'm also not accepted, to the point that when people se me literally for first time they start pushing me to the side and ignoring me like if I have a giant IDIOT written on my head. Seriously after 20 years it gets annoying:( at least I have 2 friends who were also rejected by everyone ( but now they re actually liked by many people, meanwhille for me nothing changed even if I tried and wanted to change everything). I have hope that it will change but not much is left from that hope...
Like this movie, you're an underrated youtuber. You deserve more subscribers because your work is fantastic and entertaining; I really enjoyed the reaction
Thank you so much!
@@SophieLents You're Welcome : D
This film is criminally underrated. It unfortunately was released within a similar timeframe to Despicable Me (which of course had the bloody yellow minions to win over the kids) and unfortunately Megamind’s marketing was just not up to scratch for such an amazing story, so Despicable Me got the limelight and yet another amazing non-Shrek Dreamworks film got forgotten about. Except for the cult following and meme communities 😆
I’d highly recommend Rise of the Guardians if you haven’t seen it! That’s another of their best work!
I have Mandela effect becose I don't remember they are at same year I think megamind movie was released 2 years before than despeciable me trailer of the piramid disappear
All I have to say is:
*Minion is best fish boi*
ENTP Characters:
Megamind
Tony Stark
Bill Cipher
Hades
Ryuk
22:22 "Honestly, i'm not sure if a more self-absorved hero EVER existed"
Superman has a whole fortress in the artic called "Fortress of Solitude" only accesible to him.
Batman has a cave filled to the top with Bat-stuff. Everything he has literally has "bat" in front of it.
Ironman has multiple "Stark" branches.
I mean... I can think of a few...
Metroman looks like markaplier after a workout montage that lasted all his life
26:20 That was actually his jetpack that allowed him to fly.
0:02 The perfect intro doesnt exis....
I watched this religiously as a kid and it was so underrated by people it's so good!
Sameee
This movie is from my childhood. I loved it then, and love it even more now. Truly a legendary film. 👌
Oh, and I don’t think Megamind’s actually evil at all. In any way. He just plays the role, but nothing about him tells you that his instinct and his inherent personality is evil and malicious. He was just taught to do it, and then embraced it when trying to be good turned him away. He thought there were two roles and if he couldn’t be one, then he must be the other. It’s a little bit sad, if you think about it.
If you didn't know they made a kind of sequel to this! I think it's called the button of doom or something...
when she said: he's like there is no purpose in life.
I couldn't believe she didn't watch it before
just a normal wendsday, falling in love with a guy and then realizing is the guy who killed my ex, but still dating him after the creepy guy who liked me try to kill both of us and then realizing my ex is actually alive but after all that we still being all happy together after killing the creepy dude...
Seriously, roxanne has no peace
In the beginning, when Megamind is ordering the laser to fire, if you pay really close attention, you see Metroman blip out for a second and show up behind Megamind, as foreshadowing for later when he's retelling the story about using his super speed to clear his head.
Megamind is such a awesome movie ! I'm glad you are reacting to this wonderful movie !
Dreamworks is known for breaking stereotypes and poking fun at popular tropes in media
"Why do I hate this child already?" That's kind of the point, he's supposed to be a stuck up, snobby parody of Superman.
9:42. Oh totally get that. I've got a similar thing with Killmonger. Of course I dont agree with the way he's fighting his battles, but... he's a hottie, so naturally I like him.
I'm glad Dreamworks made good movies like this one, the Dragons and Kung fu panda trilogies, Rise of the guardians (It's literally avengers for kids; a group of likable and funny heroes teamed up to defeat a serious and creepy villain. I love it :D) Spirit, Simbad, Road to Eldorado, Antz, Prince of egypt. I'm not that happy they made Boss baby 1 and 2, Shark tale and Turbo. Thoses were really awful! Except the animation, nothing about them was good or entertaining. The humor was lame, the music was boring, the characters were either stupid or annoying, the villain was a joke (The twist one in turbo was just horrible!) They got more good movies than bad ones luckily!
The ring tone of my cellphone is the SpongeBob theme, so I got totally confused when it started playing (at 14:20).
what i find great about this movie, is that metro man isnt a bad guy, he is just a guy, same as megamind, who didnt realy had much choice in his life, he chose to be a musician, the one thing is is NOT good at, so that he could acctuly have a chalenge, and he saw in megamind the potention of being a new hero.
I Love Megamind, It’s My Favourite Dreamworks Movies, Your Reaction Was Really Great
22:22 Escanor from The Seven Deadly Sins, “Who decided that? “ XD
Sophie, if Megamind actually killed anyone before the whole Metro Man faking his death thing happened, he wouldn't have 88 life sentences in prison, he'd be either on death row, or have been executed by now. Considering you thought having that many life sentences meant he killed a lot of people, that would make him enemy number one. He wouldn't be able to live in Metro City without the police and Metro Man busting down his door within an hour or so. I'm talking S.W.A.T. team, F.B.I., interpol, the works. They'd all be on him so quick.