Comments on: Review: Megamind

By: Multiplex: Deleted Scenes — Review: The Green Hornet

Multiplex: Deleted Scenes — Review: The Green Hornet — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:09:19 +0000

[...] happened in this case: if I gave half stars, I’d say Hornet was a solid 3 1/2 star movie. I felt the same way about Megamind, but rounded up there because it had more up its spandex sleeves than I had expected. Here, [...]

By: Just Plain Something

Just Plain Something — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:41:00 +0000

That’s what I gave it, too. My biggest complaint was that life went a little too much back to normal in the middle part of the film. Sure, Megamind was dealing with personal stuff so he wasn’t terrorizing the city, but then Roxanne or any other citizen should have commented on how weird that was.

That being said, David Cross is the most adorable alien fish in a robot ape suit I have ever seen!

By: Rob Wilson

Rob Wilson — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 04:02:00 +0000

I enjoyed Megamind more than HTTYDâ€“ with the exception of the big bad in that movie, all the dragons were a little too cutesy for me to believe the initial premise of them as a threatâ€“ but I stole (er, borrowed) your adjective “Dreamworks-y” to describe the ending before I’d even read this review.

Liked it a lot, though; I enjoyed the humor and the action both. The three-d was well placed (and I wore my contacts this time, so I didn’t have that glasses-on-glasses pinchy-ear headache, which helped). Some of the fight scenes were, as you say, absolutely beautiful. There really isn’t an excuse for the next Superman movie not to look at least as good as this did.

By: Gordon McAlpin

Gordon McAlpin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:51:00 +0000

Maybe I’ve been inconsistent with my use of the word “great.” What I mean by “truly great” here is “masterpiece,” as opposed to just an awesome, fun movie (with some shortcomings) â€” that is, the difference between a five star movie (Dragon) and a solid four-star movie (Panda).

Megamind, incidentally, is more of a three and a half star movie, but I don’t do half stars. But the actiony bits are pretty freakin’ awesome.

By: Tom Brazelton

Tom Brazelton — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:23:00 +0000

I remember you were pretty enthused about Panda when it first came out. You weren’t obsessed about it like you were for How To Train Your Dragon, but you argued on it’s behalf in a few episodes of The Triple Feature.

By: Gordon McAlpin

Gordon McAlpin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:10:00 +0000

Have I said that about Kung Fu Panda?

It’s really good, the action is awesome (as it is in Megamind), and I own it on DVD, but it’s not something I’m going to watch over and over like How to Train Your Dragon or half of Pixar’s movies. I’d say it’s their second best movie, after Dragon, but that it falls just shy of the “truly great” mark.

By: Tom Brazelton

Tom Brazelton — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:41:00 +0000

Wait. I thought Kung-Fu Panda was Dreamworks first truly great film?