And this is coming from someone who really likes the original Megamind movie. It's in my top 5 DreamWorks movie list! While I do understand that this movie was only intended to advertise the new series called Megamind rules! For Peacock streaming service, I still feel like there was no effort put into this.
The story starts off just a couple of days after the events of 2010 movie. Where Megamind (Keith Ferguson replacing Will Ferrell) tries to fit in his new role of becoming a new hero of Metro City. However, it turns out that he had a group of villains in the past called Doom Syndicate, and they still believe that Megamind is a villain. As a result, he's dealing with a difficult task of pretending to be a villain, while still trying to save the day, otherwise, the syndicate will execute their evil plan. On paper, it's not bad of a plot, however the execution of it is just awful. First of all, the plot recycles some elements from the first movie, with Minion (who is renamed into Old Chum) separating from Megamind because of conflict, and the heroes teaming up to stop the bad guys. Second of all, it doesn't even add any interesting details to spice up the story. Even the humor is mostly dull, where almost all of it, except for 2, were an embarrassingly huge miss. The action scenes were unengaging, as if they came straight out of a bad video game. However, despite it being a direct follow up, it actually misses a lot of elements. Like the whole doom syndicate existence. It was established in the prequel, that the protagonist only had minion by his side, yet in here, he has a whole team. I could go on and on, but I'm afraid this might fall into spoiler territory. Also the time is inconsistent. For example, in the first movie, characters still had flip Nokia phones, yet in here, they have smartphones, even though only a couple of days passed between the movies.
As for characters, they all sucked. The old ones are just plain imitations of their past selves. And the new ones are barely interesting to begin with. The voice acting can range from okay to annoying. But you can tell none of them sound like the old actors. I noticed how this movie also forgot about the existence of other characters like Metro Man, Hal Stewart, Bernard and even the Warden. Which gave the movie more sour notes. Also the conflicts between villains and heroes are annoying. They act like high school students. Especially when the Syndicate can't even decide on who the new leader is.
Finally, the animation is the definition of salt to an open wound. Usually, even in weaker DreamWorks movies, the animation would be the best aspect of them. However, in here, the graphics could actually comparable to the infamous 2012 movie Foodfight! Which is very frustrating for a huge animation studio.
I can say with confidence, that this is the true worst DreamWorks movie of all time. Even if they had other bad films in the past like Shrek the third, Trolls, Boss baby, Spirit untamed and Joseph King of dreams, I doubt anything of them can be as bad as this. It's a huge disgrace for Megamind fans like myself and just movie goers in general. Skip this one at all cost. It's not worth your time. If you want to watch a better movie about a villain saving the day, you can watch Sponge out of water, Despicable me or even the first Megamind. But, unless you want to suffer for 85 minutes, I recommend to avoid this movie like the plague.
The story starts off just a couple of days after the events of 2010 movie. Where Megamind (Keith Ferguson replacing Will Ferrell) tries to fit in his new role of becoming a new hero of Metro City. However, it turns out that he had a group of villains in the past called Doom Syndicate, and they still believe that Megamind is a villain. As a result, he's dealing with a difficult task of pretending to be a villain, while still trying to save the day, otherwise, the syndicate will execute their evil plan. On paper, it's not bad of a plot, however the execution of it is just awful. First of all, the plot recycles some elements from the first movie, with Minion (who is renamed into Old Chum) separating from Megamind because of conflict, and the heroes teaming up to stop the bad guys. Second of all, it doesn't even add any interesting details to spice up the story. Even the humor is mostly dull, where almost all of it, except for 2, were an embarrassingly huge miss. The action scenes were unengaging, as if they came straight out of a bad video game. However, despite it being a direct follow up, it actually misses a lot of elements. Like the whole doom syndicate existence. It was established in the prequel, that the protagonist only had minion by his side, yet in here, he has a whole team. I could go on and on, but I'm afraid this might fall into spoiler territory. Also the time is inconsistent. For example, in the first movie, characters still had flip Nokia phones, yet in here, they have smartphones, even though only a couple of days passed between the movies.
As for characters, they all sucked. The old ones are just plain imitations of their past selves. And the new ones are barely interesting to begin with. The voice acting can range from okay to annoying. But you can tell none of them sound like the old actors. I noticed how this movie also forgot about the existence of other characters like Metro Man, Hal Stewart, Bernard and even the Warden. Which gave the movie more sour notes. Also the conflicts between villains and heroes are annoying. They act like high school students. Especially when the Syndicate can't even decide on who the new leader is.
Finally, the animation is the definition of salt to an open wound. Usually, even in weaker DreamWorks movies, the animation would be the best aspect of them. However, in here, the graphics could actually comparable to the infamous 2012 movie Foodfight! Which is very frustrating for a huge animation studio.
I can say with confidence, that this is the true worst DreamWorks movie of all time. Even if they had other bad films in the past like Shrek the third, Trolls, Boss baby, Spirit untamed and Joseph King of dreams, I doubt anything of them can be as bad as this. It's a huge disgrace for Megamind fans like myself and just movie goers in general. Skip this one at all cost. It's not worth your time. If you want to watch a better movie about a villain saving the day, you can watch Sponge out of water, Despicable me or even the first Megamind. But, unless you want to suffer for 85 minutes, I recommend to avoid this movie like the plague.
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