Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate

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Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate

When the first Megamind came out back in 2010, it featured a novelty high-concept animation with Will Farrell, Tina Fey, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, and David Cross voicing the characters. With the new entry being made available directly on streaming services, it is clear that 14 years later it fails to impress, with the voice acting being particularly bland and the animation feeling copied from other productions. It is at times entertaining and somewhat touching but feels like grabbing the original, running it through a laundry machine a few times, and then quickly scanning it. Its only job is to promote a new TV series: “Megamind Rules” will be available on your TV screens this month.

As the intended audience for this sequel was not present when the original film was released, the movie starts with a short introduction explaining the last film events. Megamind (originally voiced by Ferrell, now by Keith Ferguson) is a villain born in metrocity (a name that he still insists on pronouncing as not rhyme with atrocity) with heavy help from a technology-oriented fish in a bowl on a robot body (which was David Cross, here Josh Brener). In the last movie however, this character was called Minion in this one, to avoid mixing things up with the very popular yellow Minions of the ‘Despicable Me’ universe, he is called Ol’ Chum now. As it turned out, when there was nobody in the whole city who could rival his might, Megamind, who had launched a hostile takeover on the world’s most adored superhero just about the time that superhero decided to hang his cape, realized that he can actually be a hero and save everyone with the assistance of courageous television reporter Roxanne, plague of the Metro City, (from Fey to Post).

It is an interesting starting point it appears because now, Megaman will have to change his life radically in order to appreciate the meaning of helping others and try to figure out how to deal with his colleagues who have been cast as the villains so to speak

At the beginning of the movie, he is chasing a group of criminals clad in fish costumes. He now pauses to say, “It’s something the older evil I would have done back in the day.” Then he contemplates saying, “There were days I did not worry about much. I really miss those days.”

He misses even more when Ol’ Chum, his faithful retainer, walks out on him because Megamind won’t make him a sidekick. Megamind is barely able to work his toaster without help. His former gang escapes from prison and starts an evil plan and he has to convince them that he is working with them to succeed in escaping from them. He has to convince Miss Roxy to imagine being both his fiancée and his accomplice in his crimes. What’s more, a little girl named Keiko (Maya Aoki Tuttle), who is very bold and well-versed with the latest concepts like live streaming and social networking, helps Megamind to get help from other people. Ol’ Chum also gets into some shenanigans at a diner but later reunites with the group as well.

The Doom Syndicate includes a Parisian statue impersonator, a fierce rock monster, an ex-weather woman who becomes lightning itself, and a goth guy recently named Lord Nighty-Night, who is accompanied by a stuffed toy named Mr. Cuddly Snuggles. As this indicates, the film seems to assure the child audience that the bad guys and the action scenes are more comical than terrifying along with a heavy dependence on poop and barf jokes which combine well with the ever-appealing poop and barf jokes. But in telling some of its verbal jokes, it is less successful in getting across what its intended audience’s age is. These are not intelligent enough to thrill parents into seeking a joint viewing with children, just behind the times, like a generation or two Literally, parodies of the movie “Titanic”, songs of Simon and Garfunkel from the 60s, and nasal hair clippers? Even more contemporary references are not likely to appeal to children in first grade. When the Doom Syndicate hosts a block party the night before the plan is to be executed, Megamind complains about reserving input, saying that he has become “the casualty of an unexpected rave party,” encourages the guests to refrain from using coasters but instead promises to tell the DJ that he wants more songs with awesome dumdums.

There are also messages about bullies and group work and the former cop also realizes that the only thing that distinguishes the good people from the bad people is the regard that they have for other human beings and their feelings.

Again, there’s a scant reference to the significance of election and democracy (and its good representatives) as well. On the other hand, this is more hap-hazard and shallow in quality when compared to the original or to the more modern films like “Boss Baby” and “The Bad Guys.”

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