**A HIDDEN CLASSIC!!** Megamind (2010) Reaction: FIRST TIME WATCHING
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Something that this movie did that I really like is that Metro Man isn’t made to be a bad person. Usually movies that have bad guys becoming good guys by the end have this whole thing where the initial “good guy” was secretly a bad person the whole time. This movie, however, just had Metro Man wanting to be his own person, apart from the idealized hero that the city viewed him as. He even encourages Megamind to rise up as the hero, and is proud of him when the city finally accepts him.
I agree! That was one of the twists I didn't see coming, and I really liked it
@@nickreacts6394 Please Watch Turning Red you’ll love it, it’s about a girl who turns to a red panda.
@@lacondrathompson1747 he already did, look on his channel
THE GIGACHAD
That's why they had Tighten/Titan
I liked how in the beginning Roxanne's dress was red then purple then straight up blue in the end. There were a lot of meta jokes and easter eggs throughout the movie
You could say roxanne didn't have to put on the red light
To answer your question: Megamind and Despicable Me were both released in 2010, about four months apart. Despicable Me was the first of the two, but considering how near each other they were released, it's highly unlikely that either one inspired the other---just two movies with a similar premise that were released roughly at the same time. Sadly, Despicable Me was the more successful of the two and therefore the one that spawned a whole franchise. Somewhere out there is a parallel universe where we have three Megamind movies, two Minion movies and just the one Despicable Me movie haha. Great reaction as always!
Yeah thanks for filling me in! One of my patrons informed me, and I just thought it was crazy that they both came out so close together (and perhaps that might have hurt Megamind in the box office unfortunately...) And no shade to Despicable Me, but next time I'm crossing into different universes, I'm checking out those Megamind sequels!
It used to be a successful movie inspired a slew of ripoffs; now studios spy on each other to push out competing big-hits. And as good as _Megamind_ may be, it's hampered by multiple issues--Dreamworks was still working the kinks out of its character designs (somehow Bernard looks weirder than any human in _Monsters vs Aliens),_ the "Marlon Brando in _Superman"_ reference was already obscure in 2010, the cast is _astonishingly_ small for a huge epic, and _Despicable Me_ has the whole heartwarming-slash-cute factor while _Megamind_ has skintight leather. As lovable as Minion is, he couldn't compete with those accursed Minions. (Ironically, _Wreck-It Ralph_ would come crashing out two years later and nail the "I don't want to be the bad guy anymore" plot better than either of its predecessors.)
I know, I liked Megamind way more and wish that it had become a series.
@@nickreacts6394 I think another reason Megamind didn't do so hot was due to the marketing. It was made out to be all about the epic battles between Megamind and Metro Man so as not to spoil the twist of Metro Man "dying" within the first ten minutes, but since people thought it was just going to be a generic superhero movie, they didn't go see it in the first place.
And if you ever get to one of those universes, open a portal, would you?
I like both movies, but I prefer this and have rewatched this more often than Despicable Me.
I love the way he predicted literally every twist throughout the movie. Megamind is known to be super subversive, and this guy was just 4 parallel universes ahead lol
I'm happy the final twist still surprised him though! There's a joy that comes from being able to predict things in a movie, but there's also a joy in being caught off guard, especially when the lead-up to it was something that was initially "correctly" predicted (that Metroman would return)
Metroman was technically Megamind's first real friend. He always played along with the hero vs villain skit, but never really hurt Megamind. He also (seemingly) never captured and jailed Minion, which always allowed Megamind an avenue to escape and play the game again. With how the warden acts in some scenes, I wonder if he also was playing along to some extent.
MetroMan said it best: He never had a choice.
When he did, he chose a quieter, more private life. Turns out Megamind was better suited to public life (though he has to get used to receiving praise).
A better lesson from this film is that you can overcome your programming.
Both these characters (MetroMan and Megamind) were programmed from before leaving their home planets to be what they were and on Earth the feedback and expectations continued the programming. But MetroMan broke his and went off to have a quiet life. Then Megamind went in an entirely different direction.
Tighten never had programming; he went directly to what he was, just supercharged.
Fun detail: Metroman's soul searching was foreshadowed all the way back at the beginning of the movie. When Megamind yells, "Fire!" to Minion while Metroman is in the Observatory there is a cut that shows the whole scene from the perspective of the people of Metrocity and if you watch very closely you can see a single frame where Metroman blinks out of the Observatory and appears behind Megamind.
And thinking about it Metroman's greatest superpower is continuity. That millisecond soul search from our perspective looked like hours for Metroman and yet he returned to the exact perfect spot he left with the exact perfect match to the facial expression he had when he left.
Not hours. Days. He read a whole stack of self help books, walked around the whole city, all that in just one frame
Humm. I was going to say that he would have had a little bit of a guide seeing that his last position was caught on camera, and at least he could look at it while he tried to get the right pose and facial expression(it’s still ridiculously freaking impressive given those conditions), but that’s not true, since the last camera click was of himself behind megamind.
While I was thinking of the camera, I started to question if it was actually even possible for him to read all of those books. In order to see a constant image and therefore to read, you would have to be moving slower than the speed of light. But in order to not completely disappear from the camera for a frame, he would have to finish doing all of those things and reading all of those books within a 60th of a second for a camera at 60fps. Im not sure if light is fast enough for that to happen. Its highly possible that it’s fine because light is stupidly fast, but I would like to run the numbers given a chance
@@serpentmaster1323 LOL, this sounds like a great idea for the Film Theory channel to tackle.
@@serpentmaster1323 cameras take a single frame in over time. They don't "click" at least, not really. The shutter speed is usually pretty small though (at least less then 1 frame). In daylight it gets really short though which is why video in bright light looks sharper then dimly lit scenes which can look blurry. Random physics person, away!
@@solsystem1342 Ah, that is what I meant when I said click. I meant the last picture the camera took to make the video. But thanks!
27:47 I took that line in a slightly different way. I didn't think he was being hypocritical. I felt like it was more of "You had all the opportunities to be a hero and to loved by people and you just threw them away" cuz he never had those opportunities. People just decided he was bad from the start, so when he sees Hal squander his opportunity for being a hero he's like bro fr? He couldn't believe how Hal Could throw away could be so selfish and just toss aside something Megamind has wanted his whole life. Acceptance and approval.
Megamind never did anything for personal gain. He was forced into the role of bad guy and figured "welp might as well be the bad guy since I can't be anything else."
Megamind was never given the opportunity to be anything more than a bad guy. Hal was given all the opportunities and he just threw them away.
Almost true in everything...except for a couple of details from Megamind's part:
1. He "created" Tighten for no reason. He just wanted to keep on playing his games. It would have partially made sense if being a villain was a sort of professional occupation, but it's not. Funny enough, he does say at some point that the way Tighten uses his powers "is not professional". And of course being a villain can give you some economic benefits...but certainly not legal.
2. Identity theft. I get why he changed his appearance to look like Bernard. I understand that he did what he did because that was his first chance to be normal and feel loved...but he should have told Roxanne the truth instead of continuing deceiving her. I genuinely think that after his argument with Minion he started planning to do it (his conversation during the last date is a hint)... but he should have decided that on the first place, or at least, sooner.
@@nobleconsejera5278 There is a moment in the dating montage where Megamind-as-Bernard cleans up the city for her and then says "maybe Megamind isn't so bad". I'm still trying to figure out what his plan was here (if any), since he gave his alter ego no credit. Either he had planned to unmask himself "eventually" - the kind of eventually that you always procrastinate on but hey you promised to yourself so it counts right?.. - or this was the moment where he truly began to become selfless in his affection.
There actually was lil scene after credits, clearing the destiny of poor original Bernard)
I really love this movie. All goofy and funny, but so well written, every little detail is right on the spot, and every character is so easy to fall to!
It’s really is kinda hidden, but also very good.
I saw that scene afterwards. And you're so right! There is a real attention to detail and writing quality that elevate this movie above others that are just fun
I love how you were reading Hal's lackluster villainy the whole time 😂
Also it's kind of amazing how this movie was riffing on superhero stereotypes before the MCU, and on classic nice guy rom-com tropes. Such a genius move for Hal to be an entitled man-child and end up the real villain of the piece
Haha yeah Hal was pretty unlikeable from the start (although props to Jonah Hill, he nailed it!), and that's so true! This movie was ahead of its time, and just executed overall so well
The guy's basically Homelander from The Boys. Sure, Homelander doesn't fit that whole "nice guy" trope, but aside from that the two have a lot in common. Both receiving superpowers due to a scientific chemical, feeling a big sense of entitlement for love and attention they believes they deserve, just because they're powerful enough to get away with anything, only to become evil out of petty reasons. Not to mention the quote: "All you're gifts, your powers, and you squander them for your own personal gain?!", sums up both of them.
2 things: 1: I'm pretty sure this movie (like Shrek) was DreamWorks making fun of Disney (this was released the year after Disney bought Marvel) and 2: Holy cow! Thor, how did you predict EVERY SINGLE part of this movie when this movie is the king of expectation subversion
@@cardongray5761 Anti Marvel stereotype like movie because they really nailed the uniqueness of a superhero movie.
Love the fact that Hal's "space dad" is modelled after Marlon Brando who played Christopher Reeve's father, Jor-el in the original Superman movies.
I like that metroman chose Musik-it's the only thing where his powers can't help him
He had to learn this by himself
Also none of them had chose their role in society by the self-metroman became a hero because everyone was expecting him to be a hero and megamind-well, we have seen his villian origin story
Also I have seen an interesting theory: people were so tough to megamind because they needed him to become a villian to be sure metroman becomes a hero
We can see that there is no way to stop someone with his powers (and we can see what Hall could do with them and he even wasn't in a full control) so if metroman decided to be a villian it would be a complete disaster
That's why metroman was raised in the prison and why he was sent in the same school as a metroman and also teacher from the beginning wasn't so... Happy about metroman spinning her with the table but he "is a good guy" so she pretended that everything was okay
A little over a decade ago, me and my fiancee (my now-wife!) were going through our ADHD-binging of this movie several times a day every single day, and while this was happening we wound up finding a really young kitten in the bushes -- we took care of her but no momma cat ever came for her and she was very clearly not someone's pet, so we wound up keeping her. She had a white face (it's no longer white, it changed as she grew up) and little dark tabby markings around the white, and so of course we named her Minion. Right now, she's flopped over lazily next to me while I watch this, and a few times she woke up and looked around because she heard her name. Having this show up on my feed made both my day, and my cat's!
This movie was so much better than the trailer made it out to be. :) I love how they made the characters so real, particularly Megamind and Metro Man. The hero, very realistically, got tired of doing the same thing over and over and the villain wasn’t as happy with winning as he thought he’d be. Then you have the average guy who turned out to be a real villain the whole time and much like real life, who would know it?
Also love that Metro Man referred to Megamind as “little buddy” at the end. ^_^ He knew the whole time that Megamind wasn’t truly evil.
Especially when you get the information that Megamind was intended to be a non-animated movie with a ton of fart jokes. Making it into an animated movie with a real message and story was defo someone making a right choice at some point.
I think Hal’s character was sooo ahead of his time. He’s a really interesting exploration of the “nice guy” trope popularized by incels like Hal. First, the nice guy who actually mistreats and projects onto the pretty girl who feels entitled to her reciprocation because he’s the “nice guy”, and second, the nice guy excuse that girls aren’t looking for kind people or good personality, they’re looking to date the cool guy, the hot guy, or the protagonist. Hal only got excited to be a hero because he thought that now as the cool guy, the hot guy, the protagonist, that the pretty girl would finally be with him, the nice guy. And then his world gets shattered when he watches her fall in love with an “intellectual dweeb”, and lashes out even worse when he finds out she fell for MEGAMIND. Not only did she fall for a DWEEB, not unlike who he was, who wasn’t the hot guy, or the cool guy, or the protagonist, but the guy turns out to be the LITERAL villain, an inhuman blue alien with the personality of an oversized child. I’m not minimizing the stunning writing of Megamind’s character, but from Hal’s perspective he is everything he believes he needs to be for the girl he’s obsessed with to choose him (a smart, “nice” guy, AND a super powered hot cool guy), but then when he finally is everything he thought he had to be, he has to accept that if she had genuinely been interested, she would have dated him without all that stuff. He feels cheated, and small, and lashes out. He reflects the ugly side of incel toxic male echo chamber culture around a decade before it became cool to discuss
Ben Stiller, executive producer on this, voiced Bernard. This is worthwhile to rewatch with commentary.
This movie, and Rise of the Guardian’s are both dreamworks masterpieces. both have so much heart and fun in it and I love watching people react to them.
I think Metroman was one of those popular kid bullies in school, which is what cemented their relationship for the future when they were adults, but while Megamind was perfectly happy to continue their game of hero and villain, Metroman was able to grow and mature as a person and realize that their game was just that, a game started by children, and that the game was hurting Megamind, who was in some ways, a friend to him, and preventing him from also growing and maturing. So by faking his death and retiring it left Megamind to crash and burn and then finally start to grow and mature and find a better place in society. Megamind became a hero, but also a hero without a villain because Hal was returned to being a regular guy. At most there's just a normal level of crime left that the police are able to handle. Megamind could help out with that but it's nothing like the game the two had been playing for years. Megamind for the most part is left to live his life outside of prison and the rules of being a bad guy, able to put his brilliant mind to inventing things to help people rather than hurt.
...unless some aliens invade Loki's army style and the world needs superheroes to fight them off, in which Megamind and Metroman are the only superheroes on Earth, that we know of.
Megamind backstory is really reliable. As a kid all you want is to be accepted, but because he didn't have cool powers, his skin was blue and had a big head, everyone rejected him. Something I know is that kids absorb and immitate what is in their enviroment to forge a personality, he had a negative enviroment, so that's why he thought be a villain was his destiny.
On the other side, Metroman really sets what some heroes really could deal with, they don't have a choice to do what they want. Just because someone has power doesn't mean they actually want to use it or want that power to begin with.
And about Hal, he just had a superman-level teenager temper tantrum over being rejected by his crush. He could just move on, but instead he decided if he wasn't happy then anyone won't be as well.
Great film, delighted your reacting to it. Plays with superhero/villan tropes so well. Megamind is a such a fun and relatable character, he just wants to fit in and be appreciated. Hal becoming the villan was a great choice. Love that Metro Man fakes his death because he's bored and unfulfilled.
Thank you! I agree too, the character arcs in this movie were thoughtful, subversive, and satisfying... it all tied together for a strong story in a fun movie!
Megamind is super underrated but I will always choose to watch this no matter what mood I'm in. DreamWorks has a way of creating villains that you root for. Your reactions to this one made me literally laugh out loud so thanks for that! Can't wait to see what's next. Definitely gonna join your Patreon so I get full reactions!
Extremely excited for rise of the guardians :D that movie needed a sequel so goddamn badly
YES
I always thought we as a society chose the wrong supervillain turns good animated movie from 2010 to love. I'm glad to now see a lot of reactors like you now giving the movie a second chance and seeing what a brilliant movie it actually is. It might even be at cult classic status now. And yes, there's probably an alternate universe where Megamind was the cultural phenomenon that spawned two sequels and two spinoff starring Minion, your crazy aunt posts Minion (the fish) memes on Facebook, and ViacomCBS ended up buying Illumination instead of NBCUniversal buying Dreamworks.
Megamind deals with so many serious issues--classism, identity, toxic masculinity, maybe even racism given the way the title character is judged based on his different appearance--in a child-friendly way, and that's part of what makes it a great movie. I hope the upcoming Megamind series has more of that to offer!
The series sure did 😂
Dude, you were predicting the movie the whole time 😂 it was satisfying when you got surprised by the Metroman trick at the end!
This movie's message is much, much better than Wreck it Ralph's. This one tells you that you can choose who you are. Ralph tells you that if you're one way, you are supposed to stay in your lane, and also enjoy it.
This, along with Tropic Thunder and the 1st Night at the Museum are the trifecta of Ben Stiller's genius in writing comedies
Ben Stiller wrote this? Wow, he is truly a comedic talent, good work!
Is this by the guy who wrote Tropic Thunder? Cool, no surprise I loved the movie back then was a kid (and still does).
even though it came out close enough to when i was born i still grew up with this its amazing
the rare kind of more realistic character arcs
6:09 nope. That's a real case of the murder of a baby. The mother said it was a Dingo who did it (Azaria Chamberlain case in Australia)
Is that the case where a Dingo ate a baby and the mother was arrested for murdering her?
@@katetroughear7915 indeed
@@LucaDGropius I've always thought it was a really obscure, interesting reference for the movie lol. I bet 90% of the audience didn't get it.
@@LifeIsScrumptious It wasn't obscure at the time, there was a lot media sensationalism at the time of this case, and it had a movie made about it, and has had a tons tv and movie references about it.
I think it's entirely reasonable that Roxi didn't recognise hal since he's over a foot taller and a completely different shape
Metro Man may have been a bit of a jerk as a kid, but that doesn't mean he would always be a jerk. He grew up, and found himself wanting. AFter all, as a kid he wasn't the hero, just a pompous brat. As an adult, he realised he still wasn't a hero and never wanted to be, but he saw somethinng noone else did, because he knew Megamind for so long, and knew what Megamind could be if given the push.
Some interesting characterisation for what could've easily been a fairly flat character.
I freaking love Megamind,it's one of my All Time Favorite Movies and way better than Despicable Me and is a Masterpiece and the Message about Choice and Nature vs. Nocture is Brilliant and Unpredictable,for Years I thought that there was never a Future of this,but a Few Months Ago it was Announced that Megamind will Return,let's just Hope and Pray that it's worth it,also Review Norbit please,it's one of my Favorites and if you ever Watch Freddie got Fingered,good luck because it's one of the Worst Movies ever made.
Dang, I hope that's true I'd love to check out a Megamind sequel! And you're right, I really appreciate the message/ theme about not being stuck in your own "destiny", or how you can be someone different than how the world perceives you to be... some really good stuff here!
@@nickreacts6394 Me too Man,although I don't know if it would be a Movie or a Series since it isn't confirmed but I'm Happy,Hyped,and Excited to see it in any Way,Shape,and Form.
I love Megamind! One my favourite animated movies (and that's a short list). Also, I always say, I want the Black Mamba, just to go out on the weekends ;)
That little ending bit with metroman standing in the crowd in that specific outfit serves to contrast the starting scene of the brainbots in the trench coat, which is really interesting.
Given how the sequels to despicable me turned out, I'm kind of glad this didn't get a second movie. Just a shame it got shunted to the background on release when it's so original, besides having so many good lessons on how you look at yourself and those around you. It's such a wholesome tale with an amusingly unorthodox cast, everyone had fun making it and it shows.
Hal in an interesting character to me.
I mean, he only thinks he should "get the girl because he saved her" because Megamind told him that's how it worked, and Megamind only thinks that because he's been raised by criminals in jail and isn't very socially adapted so he only goes of what he assumes is happening with Metriman and Roxanne. I think in the beginning, Hal was just an awkward guy who had a crush on a girl who didn't like him back, but his powers and Megamind's bad advice turned him into a villain. For example, look at the scene where Hal invited her to his apartment for the bounce house party. He wanted to spend time with the girl he liked, but after he left Roxanne's field of vision, he didn't get upset about her not wanting to go with him, he got upset about how bad his suggestions were. He's an awkward guy who likes a girl, but has no idea how to actually talk with her. He doesn't do anything negative towards her except get a little jealous about someone else being here partner, not until 1) he got the powers, 2) Megamind, who he thinks is his "space dad", tells him that the hero always gets the girl. After that is when he changes from a funny, clueless, lazy, awkward, dim-witted nerd to be a aggressive, vengeful, bad-tempered, sadistic guy. There's a clear difference before and after. Clearly, at least some of that was in him before, but he never acted on it. Which is important to understand. Everyone has some dark part of themselves, but what separates good people from bad people is making the choice not to act on that part. In the scene I mention, he genuinely believes his ideas were terrible, as no one else is around for him to be putting on a show, but he's so awkward and dim witted that it's just what came to mind in the moment as he was talking with her. He just wanted to spend time with her at that point. Afterwards, when he kidnapped her to drop her and save her, as a clear misunderstanding of what saving Roxanne and "getting the girl" meant is when he goes from an awkward guy trying to get the girl to a villain. Once he has the power and expectations, and then is let down again is when he becomes a violent villain. Clearly, Hal wasn't a perfect guy, but I think having all those powers corrupted him and brought out the worst parts of his personality, and having his expectations raised by Megamind and then his crush destroying them solidified the negative parts of him.
I remember reading somewhere that the inspirations for his character were Syndrome and Lex Luthor. I can see it. His name is also a combination of two Green Lanterns, Hal Jordan and John Stewart.
Hal is the kind of guy who thinks that girls don't like him because he's not attractive/rich/powerful but once he speaks you immediately realize the actual reason. He's not awkward, he's a walking red flag and not a guy any woman would even want to be friends with. He keeps talking about love and marriage when they're only co-workers, he doesn't fully accept being rejected ("soft yes on Thursday") and getting mad is still a weird reaction even if it's not initially directed at her. He invalidates her words and actions saying she doesn't know what she's talking about, saying Bernard isn't her partner after she just said so herself and saying she "accidentally" hugged Bernard instead of him. He tells Roxanne he knows everything about her which implies he's been stalking her (which we actually see him do with his super vision). He clearly doesn't know his boundaries and feels entitled to her love. The superpowers didn't change him and Megamind's advice didn't turn him into a villain, he just became more forward because he suddenly believed he could get what he wanted and he would've done so even without Megamind's input. When he thinks Megamind is gonna rob him, he says that he should rob the lady downstairs instead because she has better stuff than him and literally the first thing we see him do with his powers is break a car. He's a "Nice Guy" but he was never a nice guy. I think his character parallels Megamind in a way, while Megamind was always good but never had the opportunity to be a hero, Hal (from what we've seen) was always kinda bad but never had the opportunity to be a villain. They both reached their "goals", in Megamind's case defeating Metro Man and having power over the city and in Hal's case getting Superpowers so he would have a chance with Roxanne. It didn't really work out for them and Megamind who was seen as a "bad guy" realized he doesn't truly want to be a villain while Hal who was seen as a "good guy" realized he doesn't truly want to be a hero
When his first instinct when he doesn't get what he want when he has the power to do something is to kill people... I don't think that argument has much weight. Megamind never told him that's how a hero should act at any point.
@@LARVideos I already said he had all-or at least some of- those problems inside of him. And his first instinct wasn't to kill anyone. It was to steal stuff and go to his apartment and play games. It was only after Megamind provoked him- by taunting him about lying to him and dating Roxanne- into a fight that he started being more evil. True, he wanted to team up with Megamind, but he wasn't just out there violently attacking everyone right after Roxanne rejected him. He stole stuff, and went home and sulked inside while playing video games.
@@xxyzxxyz690 Hear hear! Take away the funny of the setting and Hal is exactly the sort of guy that would become women's worst nightmare with those powers...
I feel this movie is incredibles level animation, but it’s sad it’s not really recognized that highly. Such an underrated film
This movie really aged perfectly.
One thing I like is how Megamind actually pronounces things weird as a joke. But, people who read books to actually learn words and don’t talk to people pronounce words wrong like that. School, epitome, etc. and me being like that, I totally see why he mispronounces stuff. Except Metrocity.
This is one of my favorite animated movies.
I'm glad you noticed the No You Can't sign. I always thought it was supper funny but nobody ever mentions it.
YOOOO, finally someone else is appreciating my favorite movie. I love Megamind. It has great comedy and a even better story. I just wished it was popular enough for a sequel....
the films like these doesn't work good with making sequels.
If you watch the scene where Megamind and Metroman are doing their back and forth banter at the beginning, watch the scene where their images are both being projected against the buildings and go frame by frame at the point where Metroman was supposed to use his super speed, there's one frame where Metroman's image disappears while simultaneously he appears on the brigde between the two buildings.
I’d like to point out that if you actually change the speed of the part where Megamind says “FIRE!” Metro Man IS actually in the background just like he was shown in the flashback. I love how intricate and well thought out this movie was. Also 20/10 for actually making sure that’s in.
Oooo, Rise of the guardians is next? Awesome! That movie was a childhood obsession of mine (I had a crush on the main character hahaha).
I'm glad that this movie reaction boom has caused more people to notice Megamind and others, finally getting the love they deserve.
I'm glad I finally watched this one too! And well the main character in Rise of the Guardians is Chris Pine... and I think EVERYONE should have a crush on that guy haha :)
This movie gets better the older I get.
"multiply it by 6" is because MEGA stands for 10^6
Dingo watching a baby is technically a Seinfeld reference, but Seinfeld got it from a RL sad case where a mother claimed a dingo did, in fact, snatch her baby, but, no one believed her, and she spent some time in jail before the baby's remains were found in a dingo den.
I love how you keep predicting what will happen. Even when you can see where the movie is going, it's still fun to watch. This one of my favorite villain becomes good(ish) movies
good story, and great music! I don't know anyone who didn't like the movie.
Exactly, how could anyone dislike this movie? It's just charming, fun, and awesome!
Dreamworks just continuously produced amazing movies. My entire childhood was created by them.
It's interesting that to hear you compare this with Despicable Me; for the most part, I've only seen people compare Megamind with Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (another obscure/underrated classic)
Even as far back as Megamind we always had strong, intelligent female characters in movie with their own motivations and goals that do not depend on men to give meaning to their lives or to revolve around. Just wish the so called feminists of modern age and the woke culture now in the movie industry realised this before pushing their "message" into every work. Sacrificing the integrity and hardwork of previous movies such as this
Bad Guys is in theaters right now, and this is so much better at exploring the concept of good and bad, and also of the stereotypes therein.
A little detail I love is how Hal’s hero name is Titan but Hal spells it out as Tighten instead 😂
33:22 The Incredibles bonus content, The NSA files refers to this as “mega strength”
which is what Mr. Incredible’s super power is listed as.
Of course, this fact isn’t really relevant to Megamind since the two movies are made by different studios.
Ive never heard of such an amazing idea as having a gru and megamind team up :O
Brought to you by DreamWorks starring Will Ferrell as Megamind as he attempts to become the greatest supervillain of all time in this movie about what would happen if the villain actually defeated the hero
Such a cool concept for an animation, and Will Ferrell did great work! (I mean of course, he's a legend, but good casting!)
Woohoo, always happy to see a new video of yours. I'm glad you appreciate Megamind. I love this movie and I think it's widely underrated. "Hero's are not born, they are made" is true also for villains.
Thank you for this!!
You're welcome!
Your weakness is *copper?* you're kidding, right?
Well, it looks like Metro Man is the sole exception to the little jingle we learned a kids: Find a penny, pick it up; all day long, you'll have good luck!
When the, "there is no Queen of England" statement is now true .... O_O - Hal knew
I’m not sure if you’ve seen it yet, but Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog is totally something I see you enjoying.
What a great movie bruh, actually I love your reactions, greetings from chile.
This movie is so God damn smart, and for an example Roxanne starts with a red dress, switches to purple while unknowingly dating Megamind, and is in full blue with him at the end. Tiny but brilliant detail.
you didnt to watch end credit but yes bernard stuck in the cube till the end.
I know! I didn't think there was an after credits but I looked it up afterwards
Megamind and Gru would be an unstoppable and hilarious duo. Or maybe even rivals trying to outdo each other? Either way, I'd love to see that happen
This is one of my favorite movies ever, I used to watch every single day when I was very little, it was the first movie my parents bought for me especifically and not me and my siblings, this movies means a lot to me
If you think about it, Metroman knew Megamind since their school days, So even if it may seem that he was self centered he was still able to see the good in megamind even then, especially when he tried his best to get others to like him with that heat ray that he made to make popcorn.
The closed captions you had were bad. Jonah Hill is Titan (see Roxanne's cards lining up), which makes the joke of Hal burning "Tighten-ville" into the city much funnier.
I always loved Music Man
I forget where I read this, but one theory for why Metro Man became Music Man is because its the one thing his powers can't help him with at all
Something head cannon is that Metro man uses Megamind to keep himself popular when he easily defeat him like Hal was doing. But Hal didn’t care about fame and actually wanted to kill him
A lot of people don’t do this!! Love it, definitely subscribing
LOVE this movie!! And great job predicting!!
I just thought of this now but I I've seen this movie a bunch of times and just noticed that at the beginning of the movie minion acts like he dies and at the end of the movie he does too. (The first time was when megamind dehydrates minion at the school and megamind taps the ball and minion turns around and starts moving)
have you seen meet the robinsons? if not i think you would love that one. also, not aniomated, but dr horribles sing along blog is something i bet you would really enjoy. its a joss whedon short movie.
One of my favorite movies. You put it all in words for me.
There was an amazing Megamind/Justice League crossover I read once where they were debating on what to do with Megamind. One defense of Megamind's killing of Metroman is that everyone of the Justice League that had to deal with Metroman left wanting to kill him themselves.
This and How To Train Your Dragons are my two favorite animated movies.
"Nothing like a super hero training montage where he's being trained by the villain. That's got to be a first"
Me: Someone has not watched Batman Begins.
I had a better idea for the whole Metro Man's weakness not working with Titan, more than the whole "faking my death" thing, anyway. I would have made it make sense why Titan wouldn't have the same weakness to copper...because he's HUMAN! Metro Man was an alien baby, same as Megamind, but of a different species. Yes, he looks human, doesn't mean he IS one! So, having copper being a weakness for a super-powered alien would make sense in that universe. A human given Metro Man's powers wouldn't have the same DNA mixture. Yeah, that little desfuser gun bullet with Metro Man's DNA was up his nose, doesn't mean it changed him completely. Otherwise, he would be just like Metro Man in personality, as well. If someone's DNA changes your whole body formula, than your brain would, too, changing your personality to be like Metro Man's.
That would be a very intelligent screenwriting choice, in my opinion. But, noooo! They went with the OBVIOUS choice!
Fun little Easter Egg...
In the beginning, Roxanne's dress is red; in the middle, as she's bonding with Megamind (though she doesn't know it's him), it becomes purple; at the end, when she accepts him, it's blue.
Great reaction! This is such a good movie!
Love this movie and am super excited for rise of the guardians! great reaction as always :)
This is one of my favorite movies, I love it sm
The officer from jail... isn't he like ... Megamind's dad? I feel like he is!
I like that megamind is so smart that he knows how to pronounce things correctly the way they are spelled like "school" and "Metrocity" 🙂
Thor you're super cool! I wish I had a friend like you to watch movies with! You react the same way I do to these movies and always give them a chance with a smile on your face! Super fan of your channel!
That's so so nice of you to say, thank you!
you should watch the prince of egypt and sinbad. two really great dreamworks animated movies from before they stopped doing 2D animation
That queen of England line hits so hard now
He’s the only bald villain that I enjoyed the victory of. unlike Thanos.
Gru and Megamind?! 😯💥💀
You literally predicted the whole movie in just a couple comments
I watched this with my kids when I they were young and I'm not sure who loved it more...them or me. I've seen it probably 12 times because it's just such a great movie. I'd say it's in the top 3 animated movies of all time.
I think it was a post credit scene where you find out what happened to the original Bernard. Pretty funny.
I adore this movie. It's seriously underrated.
Grew up watching this movie
I love this movie! So much fun.
This man guessed literally everything right lmao
I love this movie, but the subtitles gave away one of my favorite jokes. Megamind named Hal "Titan," but Hal is so stupid he thinks it's "Tighten." You don't realize until he writes "TightenVille"
Megamind is getting a sequel movie and a TV series now. Check out "Megamind Rules" (TV series) and "Megamind VS The Doom Syndicate" (movie).