In an alternate world, there would be 3 Megamind movies, Minion movie spinoff, and pictures of Metro Man telling parents not to vaccinate your children.
Personally, I think it's better than we never find out what Megamind's parents said to him. It's easy to just let those words define you, but by leaving it vague, it ties into the theme of choice laid out in this movie. Whatever he was destined for, it's not as important as what he chose, who he made himself to be over the course of his life, ultimately ending as a hero. And I think Megamind forgetting things about the invisible car makes sense for his character. He is really smart, but also kind of an airhead. He can think deeply about something, but doesn't think very wide about it. He's do focused on doing things he doesn't take the consequences into account all the time.
It's also appropriate in a comedic sense that they never address it, because it's his remembering things that are ultimately not that important in hindsight. Or perhaps that style of comedy where it's meta-jokes about superhero cliches like that
Tighten does have a point when he says that Roxanne didn't care who he was before he got superpowers. HOWEVER! There is not a single time where the two of them interacted, before he got superpowers, during which he was not creepy. And there is not a single time where the two of them interacted, after he got superpowers, where he was not downright dangerous. Roxanne has very good reasons for not wanting to get to know him. This is a good example of how it is possible for a person to have a point and still be wrong. I've heard someone say that Megamind not hearing what his father said he was destined for means it's up to himself to decide what he's destined for.
The whole Tighten subplot is a really good commentary on toxic masculinity in the way it demonstrates how an obsessive manchild feels entitled to a woman by virtue of association, and how being granted power to do whatever he wants immediately corrupts him by enabling him to live out his selfish power fantasies.
I imagine that's something Lord Batman himself comes to understand at the end of that two-parter, turning himself in along with the rest of the Justice Lords when they're defeated and talking that he needs to be held accountable as well. Honestly I loved the "A Better World" arc and my only problem with it is the same problem I have with a lot of "Superman goes bad" stories and it's that they make Superman just kind of an outright villain. Yes, his goal in wanting to make a safer world is noble but after he kills Luthor he shows no remorse or questioning for any of the actions he takes. He has no problem with just killing his way through a problem, including other heroes who try to stop him, like the Flash of the main universe. Superman feeling like he has to take over the world in order to save it and making the hard choices while struggling and acknowledging the unethical nature of what he's doing, that's an interesting story. But Lord Superman is basically just another dictator who thinks he knows better than everyone, the only difference being the S on his chest. I'll give the Justice Lords one thing over Injustice and that it was the entire team (minus Flash, who was dead) that decided to take over the world. Everyone shares the blames, including Lord Batman. While in Injustice, while other heroes join his regime, Superman bears nearly all of the blame, while moral center of the universe (apparently) Batman stands against him as the big hero. Because Batman's always right, Batman's always perfect, Batman's the only "real" hero.
I'd say Megamind leaving his superpower gun in the invisible car and forgetting about it is completely in-character for him. It's established that while he's incredibly intelligent, he's also pretty poor in sense. Plus, you know, going through a break-up would sort of leave you slightly disconnected from reality for a moment. Also the reason he never tries to just kill Roxanne at Metro Man's museum is more one of the first signs that he's a fundamentally good person at heart who was just convinced he was the bad guy because of how others treated him. It's never even established in the movie if he has an actual body count. It's the reason Roxanne isn't fazed when Megamind pulls out his death traps on her. She knows he's never going to actually use them to harm her.
yeah, and it shows when, 1) when roxanne remains unfazed, megamind cowers thinking "there must be something that scares her", and only enjoying when at least he got to show her he wasn't as predictable as she thought with her not being in the observatory as she assumed. 2) believing his trap was a bust, megamind started to pack things up, just leaving roxanne there to, basically freed herself. he never really cared about her or doing harm to her. he just kidnapped her because it was like the opening act of the game of "heroes and villains". 3) while waiting for titan, megamind just stood there. never really even threatening other people. megamind was probably put in jail most of the time because he tend to destroy property, but that was it
@@ianr.navahuber2195 I've even heard people theorize that Megamind had been crushing on Roxanne for a while, and showing off his traps and weapons was all part of a misguided attempt to impress her.
Tyrone Chillifoot Which personally feel like it goes further into the movies theme of, we are our choices, nothing else Even when things go right for you and you take advantage of it, without choice, it becomes like a prison, I’m sure no one ever *asked* him if he wanted to do this, just started setting things up for it and he excitedly went along with it
Heck interestingly you can say both Megamind and Metroman were sheltered in different ways, Metroman never having to deal with negativity and just kind of feeling like everyone loving him is just a normal status quo rather than a seriously unfair situation on both him and anyone not-him, Megamind likewise is rarely if ever challenged on his idea that bad is his thing and he should just get used to being the criminal and have fun with it
SerenityM16 Actually I think it goes more with the theme of not following what people expect of you and forge your own destiny. Megamind became a villain only because people treated him like he was the “bad guy” so he felt as though that was all he’s good for and in the end decide to become the hero to stop an even worse villain than him. And Metro Man is a similar case, when he asks who would he be without the people of Metro City, he’s SERIOUS, he wouldn’t know where he would be without the people of Metro City, he’s only the hero because it’s what people expected of him, which is why he decides to escape the routine he has by faking his demise and living life as he choses. Even Hal / Tighten follows this theme, albeit in a different way. Megamind as his space dad gives him an expectation of being a hero, which he doesn’t live up to, he decides to defy that idea and become a super villain because he can finally take what he wants with having god like powers and all, and no one can actually stop him, plus before he was Tighten Hal was a loser that no one would probably ever expect to become a legitimately threatening villain, so in a dark sense even he follows this theme.
Another interesting thing is that Metroman suck at playing guitar and signing, he finally found something he isn't naturally good at and has to work to accomplish.
Eh, that's more like Bruce going, "Hey dad! Can you help me with my superhero thing?" and Alfred being like, "Sure, but if I have to pull one more bullet out of you, you're grounded!"
They came out the same year. That and the fact they're both deconstructing villain tropes are basically the only similarities. It's a real shame that some of Dreamworks' best movies never get the audience they deserve. Sure, HTTYD and KFP had 3 films each and a couple TV shows. It's a real shame that we never got a Megamind follow up, and the best we got for Monsters VS Aliens was an okay show that had no payoff. I'm glad that at least a few of their more underrated movies got Netflix cartoons. Still, much as I like Shrek, I think this movie did deconstruction better in one movie than the ogre did in 4.
+mightyfilm Not to mention what it’s communicating through its deconstruction- that being a Nice Guy or even a superhero does not automatically entitle you to the girl, and to act like it does is evil- is still relevant today.
Megamind is an overall more mature, of course. It really takes a bite out of that Lois Lane in distress trope, sure. I do see Linkara's point, though. Everyone and their mother has a superhero parody, and that's assuming that actual comic books are too stiff to undermine their own tropes (they aren't). It's not uncommon to get hit with superheroic deconstruction somewhere or another. However, I am a fan of something like Megamind, or especially The Tick, having shades of darker, and/or realistic (or as realistic as possible) consequences and themes. Much better than "wacky hero does something wacky." Still, it's a shame that the film's success was dictated by the overseas market. Yet when the overseas market is the only one where a film makes money, they still ignore it. It has to be successful everywhere.
Discount? Despicable Me cost $69 million dollars to make while MegaMind was $130 million. That is one of the biggest reason Illuminations Films keeps on making Minion /Illuminations movies. The cost under $80 million and make over $300 world wide.
@@plantainsame2049megamind does obviously care about his minion though so makes sense he’s going to inherit his stuff and therefore end up more as a sidekick
@@userasdfThat's an exception than the norm for minions. On the other hand, sidekicks more regularly inherit their superhero's role or advance to their own seperate career as equals.
Something people don’t bring up about this movie is it shows the importance of having a secret identity. It’s made clear Metro Man has no secret identity which is likely why he became so jaded and burnt out, he never got to have a normal life. Even when heroes get unmasked, they tend to have at least 2 decades of normalcy before getting thrust into stardom. It’s reminds me of this exchange from that episode of Superman: The Animated Series where Clark Kent is legally pronounced as dead Martha: well this is a find mess Johnathan: well he’s not ACTUALLY dead, he just can’t be Clark anymore Clark: But I AM Clark! I NEED to be Clark! I’d go crazy if I were Superman all the time
Yo Lewis! Two things about this movie for ya, showing at how deep into detail they went with some things! 1: Blink-and-you'll-miss-it-moment in the beginning. Right after Megamind shouts "Fire!" when both he and Metro Man are on the screens, there's one single frame, where Metro Man is behind Megamind, hinting at the explanation the hero gives towards the end. 2: The camo-watch doesn't change eye color.
Schazmen Rassir That last one was only a setup so the audience could tell Metro Man wasn’t Metro Man before Roxanne could. Whenever anyone changes into Megamind, their eyes turn green, however. That little inconsistency has always bugged me.
@@virtualpianosheets7143 There's also another inconsistency with Megamind's Holo-Watch: when he turns into Space Dad or the warden, his voice changes, but when he's Bernard, he doesn't automatically get his voice.
For those that don't know, there's a mid-credits scene where the real Bernard is rehydrated because Megamind forgot to empty his pockets on laundry day and Minion knocks him out with the forget-me stick.
In a trailer, Megamind's father said his son was destined for greatness. I guess they thought it was funnier to leave it undefined so they edited it out.
I thought was pretty obvious that's what he said, plus you can lip read him saying it. I've also seen the movie dozens of times as I put on the TVs at work when I at worked in the electronics section at a store. Dreamworks DVDs have the handy thing of restarting themselves, so I put a bunch of them in the DVD players since I had a bunch of lazy coworkers who would let movies sit at the intro screen. (Or found movies that would loop if the player worked with it.)
At best, someone over at Patreon to request. Much like the request for a retrospective on Beetleborgs or him reviewing the Killing Joke movie, he needs the money to do so.
I am annoyed that this movie was overshadowed by Despicable Me. Megamind had far more heart to it, Despicable Me was mostly just comedy. We feel a lot more connection between Megamind and Roxane than we did Gru and the little girls. Plus the conflict in Megamind was our failure of a supervillain going up against an unstoppable menace.
Despicable Me has a bad luck because it has minions in it and they overshadow the heart it has (Gru finding family with the girls, Lucy and later with his twin). However, the worldbuilding is nice (with villains having their own convention, bank etc.). But yeah, minions are overrated and grating.
I liked despicable me... except for the minions (of course they would be the main part to be remembered...). I didn't feel like it was lacking in heart, but more so for a younger audience than megamind (even though megamind is technically a kid's movie as well, I do think they deliberately put things in it that could connect to an older audience, beyond parental bonus jokes)
@@dragonstormx yeah its annoying enough that I wouldnt cry if despicable me never existed so the saturation of minions never happened...but on its own, the movie is cute
Honestly that line is over-memed. He was telling that to a normal, non-superpowered boy. And the message boils down to “try to help yourself and those around you before stressing about the world at large.” Which is a bad message to give to a superhero and a good mesage to give a freaking normal kid.
16:55 honestly I disagree with this statement. While I agree that there's a certain level of self-awareness in his characterization before he becomes powered but he pretty much was a narcissistic deviant and I don't really see how the movie is trying to pass any blame onto Roxanne. If anything, Megamind is more responsible for giving him powers and unintentionally enabling his toxicity
And the point of Hal was that he saw himself as the victim and choose to blame Roxanne for his own problems even know he try to be something he not and never really accepted he was never going to be in a relationship with her as she only saw him as a friend
I also did do a video pointing out Hal and Roxanne Relationship in the movie and they made it clear that the movie never pass the blame on Roxanne at first but when your older you kind of see yourself in Roxanne shoes
She didn’t even see him as a friend to her he was just her weirdo co-worker who said creepy stuff to her, there’s a reason why when she tries to get Hal to stop her argument is for him to go back to being the old Hal who liked dip and bouncy houses because that’s the only part of his personality he showed her he never tried to connect to her on an emotional level he just let out creepy chat up lines and date offers without letting her get to know him first
@@mrcritical6751 That the thing Mr critical i felt Roxanne putting up with Hal creepy and weird behavior showed she try to be his friend but kept being put off by Hal Creepy ways and felt he just needed someone but still kept away from him but like i said that just me
@@comicbookreviewer4856 I think it was just Roxanne showing common courtesy and being a nice person. When Hal’s doing his whole “I would watch you” speech at the beginning of the movie you can see she’s a little creeped out but also has a face that says “this guy’s weird but he’s harmless I’ll just humour him”
Lewis, buddy, LIGHT of my LIFE, never ever ever EVER tell your audience not to do something! Now, you're gonna get a refrigerator box full of copies of Bee Movie!
This is probably the 9th person today who's gonna tell you this, but I kinda appreciate this movie for the small bits of detail it adds. For example, if you go back to the beginning of the movie when Metro Man is stuck in the copper dome, you can actually BARELY see him zip around in superspeed for the revelation found near the 3rd act. You gotta go frame by frame, but that is EXCELLENT attention to plot detail, and a great rewatch bonus for when you're reviewing other stuff and run out of good stuff on Shudder.
Really? Damn, how the mighty have fallen also I looked up the director and found out he also voiced Skipper in the Madagascar films and he's going to direct Boss Baby 2
Maldon 365 Eh, honestly Megamind was a product of its time (which is one reason why we never got a sequel) when everyone was churning out parodies (I mean, the movie before this was Monsters vs Aliens), and falls into much of the same failings other movies they made did, despite the clever bits to the downright brilliant bits
its a REALLY good deconstruction as its not mean spirited about it at all, deconstructs multiple cliches in the genre, and ultimately reconstructs it by havign Megamind become a hero in the climax
Yeah. A lot of deconstructionist works are just spiteful and condescending, like “You’re all sheeple for liking these things and r/iamverysmart for knowing everything sucks”. Looking at you, The Boys.
+ULGROTHA I don’t know much about the show, but to me, the fact that it got adapted into a show at this point just goes to show how many edgy, cynical teenagers there are in the world. Works where the central theme is that superbeings would all be evil jerks in real life just reek of teenage pretentiousness to me.
@@tobsonasanya4765 Better than the "lOoK aT mE, iM a wAtChMeN rIpPoFf, iM sMoRt" creepypaste-esque levels of edgy comic book it's based on? *yes, absolutely*. Good on it's own, on a vacuum ignoring the current situations? debatable. Good on the context of a flood of pseudo-cynical "sUpErHeRoEs aR3 bAd"media done by pseudo-intelectuals? uhhhhh.....
"My tastes are weird..." I lost count of how many times I heard that across the computer service counter at the electronics store I worked at in college.
21:12 that's because he knew both megamind and him were doing an act. sure megamind caused property damage but most of the time that was it. it shows why he prefers to just hide from roxanne back at the statue instead of just killing her. or when he thinks his trap failed, he starts packing things up and leave when he could just kill roxanne
even the thigns he hits with the dehydration gun aren't killed, just put into a temporary stasis until made wet again, so he never actually kills people, and even the one time he thought he actually killed someone even he was surprised and taken aback and eventually regretted it.
I've watched this movie a lot when it came out and after some time, I realized that Metro Man isn't as bad as one may think. I mean, even fi he's privilaged and, as a kid, kind of contributed to Megamind's situation, he was still a child and didn't know any better. Also if you think about it very hard, you can say that Megamind is closest person Metro Man has to a friend and theese three - Metro Man, Megamind and Minion - can understand their situation the best, because they are all aliens without home. I don't think there are flaws of character that Metro Man should address in the end. The only thing I don't like about him is that he didn't help with defeating the Tighten. Then again - whenever people are talking about Megamind and how he was failed by society on multiple levels and his treatment led him to become a supervillain, barely anybody addresses that Metro Man was forced to be a superhero just because he has superpowers. With Megamind, Metro Man, Minion - hell, even with Roxanne Ritchi - we have a situation where society operates on certain roles (superhero, supervillain, minion, damsel in distress) and kind of forces those roles on these four.
Metro man's not a villain, but he's not a hero, and that's okay and of course he'd know megamind well enough to see what everyone else couldn't see: that he, deep down, could be a hero if given the chance
Carefull, don't even dare to call out Society on it's crap, do as Society says and never question anything, join the -Grave-Hivemind in an everlasting chorus of a single entity on multiple bodies . P.D. I find weird you're one of the few who point out the detail of Metro Man not helping during the final fight, I guess he wanted Megamind to beat the villian on his own so the "you can be a hero too" spiel landed? Or considering he's supposed to be the Superman of this world he concluded Metro City was "Over There"...
20:59 What the Megamind's parents were wonna say is not important, since they didn't finish Megamind can become anything he wants to be, alsothe whole movie answers it by showing Megamind's jouney to become a hero despite growing being put in the role of the villain by society just like Metroman was put in the role of the hero. Since Megamind and Metroman grow up fighting each other at some point they come to understand one another, all the time they were like friends, like the old/current Saturday morning action comedy "at Cartoon Network" the villain and the hero are friends even if they fight.
A few things I’ve seen, based on my multiple watching of the movie... In no particular order: - With the invisible car, I chalk that up to his excitement followed by heartbrokenness, that he didn’t take note of the car. - On the other side of things, he remembers his parents so well because that was the last he saw of them. - Speaking of his parents, I believe they said “destined for greatness/great things”. - I’d just like to applaud the attention to detail the movie makers had. From spotting MetroMan behind Megamind near the start (yeah it was the wrong line they show during the explanation, but I think that was done for humour’s sake) to setting up things that are both subtle but also lead up to a later point (like the eye colors) - With the watch, I feel like the reason he didn’t are Bernard’s voice was because he was in rush... Just a random point. - Onto Hal, yeah she didn’t bother to get to know him, but he was also a really creepy person who believed she owed him her love, just because he’s a “nice guy”. Megamind, meanwhile, spent time with her, with no real pretence (to begin with) and even after he fell in love, he never pressured her, or her to love him... In short, people made assumptions about Roxanne, but Megamind took the time to get to know her, and do things just because. I may have missed some stuff, but that’s my thought... === Edit: I remember a few more I had meant to make! - End credits scene, Bernard ends up in the washing machine. - The reason I didn’t think it was odd that MetroMan didn’t mind Megamind was that the two of them always knew the whole battle for good and evil thing wasn’t “real”. Yeah, Megamind put people’s lives at risk, and yeah, he’s a villain, but the whole way through, he seems like a kid at play. MetroMan always escaped so he could trap him and set off a deathray, he always kidnaped the same girl, who wasn’t the least bit worried about her safety because he had clearly never actually harmed her, and overall, if you see the way he does evil, he doesn’t seem interested in actual harm, just acting the part. Megs said it himself “presentation”. He’s presenting a persona based on what he was taught.
A note, for people who don't know: In the artbook it states that Megamind's plots are considered safe enough to bring babies to watch. It's literally a hero/villain show that the citizens love. Megamind probably has all the life sentences from kidnapping Roxanne alone. No body count. However, while Megamind was enjoying the show (it's the only way he really got attention, after all), Metro Man didn't, really. He has no secret identity or anything. He never gets a break from being 'the hero'. He enjoyed the attention as a kid, but it makes sense that, over time, it would become hollow and meaningless to him. I mean, he's not even actually 'saving' anyone. Who does Megamind kill when Metro Man is gone? No one. He's literally harmless. He just does massive amounts of property damage. He even stops kidnapping Roxanne.
Oh, you didn’t talk about the mid-credits scene with Bernard (Megamind forgot to take his cube out of his pocket so when it went into the washing machine, Bernard was rehydrated). Otherwise, I enjoyed the review. I love Megamind, so seeing it get some attention in a review was just great. Although I would argue against the film partially blaming Roxie; Titan was deluded and was a creep, so I think it’d make sense that he would blame Roxie for his issues. Otherwise though, liked the review. Looking forward to next week.
not only that but we are clearly shown Hal NEVER wanted anything other than for Roxanne to date him, so him blaming her for not 'being his friend' is just him trying to deflect responsibility as well as commentary on toxic 'nice guys'.
Right? It was Hal who was blaming her for the problems, not the movie. It's played exactly as it would play out, so at that point, you are trained in movies to go "Oh maybe Hal has a point?" But that's the wrong feeling because Hal is trying to gain sympathy from the audience, as much as he is trying to get it from Roxanne. I will say that I agree with Linkara, that Megamind should have apologized for real in the movie. That's the biggest shortcoming I think.
@@TakaComics Not sure I agree, when she asked him if he really thought she could fall for him, he said no and walked away, that is what makes him different from Hal.
Roxanne doesn’t owe Hal a damn thing. He thought she’d suddenly fall for him if he had powers but that’s not the case. It’s somewhat a deconstruction on the notion in superhero comics that the female character ends up with the superhero. Sure, she ends up with Megamind but up until that point she thought he was a bad guy and there’s a lot he needs to make up for.
I think megamind’s outfits are mainly inspired by Emperor Ming from Flash Gordon. I think the better joke would be “Jeez, does Emperor Ming know you raid his wardrobe?” Just something for your next top 15 missed opportunities.
17:07 the truth is, it’s not the writers trying to convince Roxanne. It’s her fault it’s Tighten himself. He’s gaslighting her. It’s actually something that he was doing to her a few times in the movie even before he got his powers. So him trying to place the blame on Roxanne is just another example of him trying to pass the blame onto her for not reciprocating his feelings. It actually shows how good he is at doing this if a lot of people think that’s what the writing is trying to do. Because that’s what gaslighting does, it’s a very deceptive manipulation tactic.
I once found some concept art that revealed Roxanne was originally going to get infused with Metro Man's powers as well and then save Megamind from Tighten. So instead of the hero becoming the villain and the villain becoming the hero while the damsel has to be the damsel again, we would have had a complete switch around of the hero becoming the villain, the villain becoming the damsel, and the damsel becoming the hero. The movie's climax is fine as it is. But I still kind of wish we'd gotten to see this.
Honestly if Megamind infused Roxanne, she'd given him exactly what he was asking for....a hero to beat the day lights out of him as she made a far better choice than Hal did. Granted the story was not about the maintaining the status quo and being master of your own destiny. I think they didn't go that route was it would reduced megamind to a bystander at the climax if they'd gone that route. They needed him to win thru his own intelligence over Tighten/Hal. I also appreciate the greenlantern nod of Hal Jordan+ John Stewart= Hal Stewart.
I feel if they had done it that way they should’ve had it be more of a team up, Roxanne distracts Hal whilst Megamind figures out how to defuse the powers from him eventually finding the defuse gun in the invisible car
Two things I really like about Megamind are the action and the setup/payoff of certain elements. It really feels more clever than it needs to be with Megamind surviving his fall with the dehydration ray, the way the hologram technology is implemented in the final battle, and how Megamind's own unique speech mannerisms undo him a bit during the fight. The way Titan is animated during the fight is, at least to me, one of the more frightening examples of "Superman but bad", because I really feel the force and strength behind each punch. The idea that someone with a toxic, selfish attitude gains Superman-like powers is more interesting to me than the assumption that Superman is unrealistic because he uses his powers for good. One criticism I absolutely can get behind is that Megamind should have genuinely apologized to Roxanne, and I don't buy that she holds any responsibility for the way Titan turned out. He made the decision to become evil on his own, simply because he assumed she _should_ get together with him. She didn't owe him a relationship, and he was certainly asking her out at an insensitive time, considering Metroman had just seemingly died and she was at least a friendly acquaintance of the late superhero.
"Hal Stewart....Cute." I like how that's his reaction to the reference, cause I bet that was sales pitch used by fans of the movie. An interesting twist.
9:27 within the year, Linkara would forget his own advice, not install a pause button on HIS timer, and blow up his house. This is what 2020 does to people.
The thing about Megamind is, while he is technologically a genius, able to make all these gadgets, robots, and other things. He's kind of a complete idiot in all other regards, from his constant mispronunciation of common words to the mentioned "forgetting where he parked his car".
21:07 I don't know if the movie says that Metroman _did_ hate Megamind. The talk in the schoolhouse isn't just about how he's changed; it's also the only time he's not preforming Metroman for the crowd. I figured that he was a less-than-intelligent rich kid who went along with what people told him until he got fed up and quit. When they're kids Metroman is a little prick, sure; but when they bantered in the big fight they seemed amicable enough.
I feel like over time Metroman had just come to know Megamind enough to realise that he's not really a proper bad guy. He does villainous things, but he does them like a very genuine person who just wants to impress. He's like a good guy who has just taken the role of a bad guy because he never considered being the good guy before. He's a very cartoonish character like that.
Megamind tends to poke fun at superhero tropes. It’s kind of a semi-parody for superhero movies becuase of this. That’s why his father’s “destined for…” line happens. It’s part of the running theme this movie has going for it. Same thing for the first time Roxanne meets Titan (or Tighten I suppose). It’s supposed to be light-hearted and romantic (kinda like Superman and Lois), but it doesn’t turn out that way. Essentially, Megamind pokes fun at superhero tropes, then subverts your expectations by not following through on those tropes. It’s part of the charm this movie has and it’s one of the reasons I like it. Is it the near superhero film, hell no, but it’s a good kid flick and fun for adults too. This movie also has lots of foreshadowing and callbacks.
and what can be greater than being able to love yourself, your friends, have someoen who is your intellectual equal and cares about you, and have an entire city loving you just because of who you are?
Fun fact: One of my friends honestly thought Linkara voiced Hal in this movie. I thought I could almost hear it too. Would have been an interesting point on your resume at least.
I think it works better that we do t know what Megamind’s parents were trying to say. I think the point of that bit is that Megamind, much like Metro Man, has spent his life doing what everyone expected of him, because he thought he had some great destiny to fulfill and all signs pointed to “fight this guy.” That’s also why he was willing to accept Hal as his new rival, thinking that since random chance had given him the powers, he was meant to be the new Metro Man. It was only after seeing Titan and Metro Man reject the destinies others had put on them that he was willing to choose his own fate and do what felt right instead of what he was told to do. Even Rebecca’s comment about heroes being made not born seems to reflect this, but of course Megamind missed the point until later.
I don't know. I feel like Megamind is perfectly fine as a standalone piece. It feels complete, like it doesn't need any addition to its story or universe. I love the movie, but I just don't think it's necessary.
@@DalekTheSupreme, I think a sequel would give answers to some questions the 1st movie created. For example, what was the destiny thing Megamind's dad was talking about?
@@DalekTheSupreme the only reason i want a sequel to megamind is because i genuinely enjoyed it that much... other wise, yeah, i agree, its a full package, it has no need of sequels.
In regards to linkara observation on megamind not killing roxanne because her seeing him in his pjs it points to a deeper layer to his character and the movie themes in that despite him being put in and loving the supervillain role hes not actually a bad person. He treats minion well and respect, doesn’t harm Roxanne (or anyone else) whenever he kidnaps her to the point even she knows they’re empty threats even without metroman saving her, shocked as everyone that he “kills” metroman partially because he didn’t think he could before and because he never wanted to. It was the presentation and show that he loved. Same goes with metroman in that despite being the hero he’s shown to be vain egotistical fame hungry. They were both thrown into the roles they play and while megaminf grew to love it metroman grew to resent it.
Ya know, when someone says "Megaminds dad's speech is cut off".... Did no one read his lips? Me personally, I actually read "Greatness" out of there, but I just might be really dumb on that.
AFter also watching the Nostalgia Critic's review of MegaMind, I learned Ben Stiller played Bernard, and had an Exec. Producer credit, and Guillermo del Toro worked as a "creative consultant".
Sometimes you don’t need a film to be a life changing event, just a fun way to kill two hours on a rainy day. And that was Megamind for me. As for next week, yeah, it’s going to SUUUUUCK.
Yeah. I'm tired of people trashing DreamWorks for not making them cry like Pixar does. Comedy is just as valid as drama. A movie doesn't have to tug at your heartstrings to be good.
It was definitely ahead of its time. Nobody really talked about that sort of thing until a few years after the movie. Then the term “nice guy” started circling around.
When people look at this film and use the Superman analogy, they think about what would happen if Lex Luthor won. But another important comparison is what happens if there was never a Clark Kent, that Superman was Superman 24/7.
One of my favourite movies from my favourite animation companies. I understand your critiques but I still love it. It's a shame it never got a sequel or TV show like other DreamWorks film's. Never realised the green lantern reference before with Hal Stewart. And seeing as he's Ginger is that actually three lanterns in one? And lastly I have to agree with Megamind and Riddler. The difference is showmanship.
"Just because I don't drop f-bombs doesn't means this channel is for kids, youtube!" Aaaaaaand that's something people doing animation for adults should REALLY put into their skull. Thanks for pointing out, Linkara^^ On a sidenote, my feeling on Megamind are exactly the same than you; I think the movie's okay, but I don't get the hype because I have actually seen a lot of subversion/deconstructions of superheroes before, so I wasn't really shocked by what the movie offered.
“......Fuck, man. What else is there to say?” - Todd, Bojack Horseman Most F-bombs in Bojack are mostly only done when he’s completely ruined his relationship with someone, with one exception to that rule. Well, technically two, but still.
I never even knew about the similarities between Megamind and Despicable Me until someone pointed it out. They just seem like completely different movies. Gru isn't anywhere near as likable of a character as Megamind. He had his moments like blasting that cheating carnival guy.
Honestly its like the Book of Life and Coco: while they have some base similarities, they're two completely unrelated films and one did not rip off the other.
She is being blamed, but by the bad guy, so take the whole thing with a grain of salt you know, what it's meant to do is satirize the whole "this isn't you you don't have to be like this" speech, which would and should never work in real life.
0:56 Translation: Send him more Bee Movie or Monster Musume. 4:54 This is America. 10:32 Or his minion. 17:34 I think Hal is what some people would call a "nice guy" or ugh, "Incel". He's someone that thinks that he can get the girl just by being nice to her, and then expects a reward for doing what you should be doing in the first place.
"Do not send me more copies of Bee Movie." Well, it could be worse. I'm sure I'll think of some way in which it could be worse if you give me enough time. "Not if it was made by Illumination Entertainment." THE MINIONS MOVIE! That's how it could be worse. Thank you for providing that.
"My tastes are weird" My favorite video game is Final Fantasy VI, a game with themes of existential drama about the nature of love and family, the inner conflict between hope and despair in the face of hardship, and the morality of using and abusing power to fight against an evil foe doing the same, and it also features suicide, genocide, war crimes, and the apocalyptic destruction of the entire world biosphere. And then one day I decided "I'm gonna make a romhack of this game to turn it into a My Little Pony story!" People are weird, own it. Normal is boring.
DrakeyC: Nah, fam. That’s the power of mashups. The strangest things can combine well. (I mean, someone made a Phoenix Wright/My Little Pony crossover, and it was kind of brilliant.)
I don't think it was the movie blaming Roxanne for not being friends with Hal, it was definitely just him. Given it was showing Hal as a power-crazed lunatic driven that way in part by society overlooking him, I think the toxic masculinity angle was very intentional.
To be fair. That soother is a power source that powers his gun. So he can’t make a new one without it. And I never felt like they were putting any blame on Roxanne for Hal’s behaviour.
As pointed out by CinemaWins, there's a bit of visual exposition you may not have noticed. When the film begins, during the ceremony for Metro Man, Roxanne is wearing a red dress (which is the opposite of Megamind's Blue Skin). During the section of the movie where she's getting to know Megamind (while he's posing as Bernard), she wears a purple dress (a combination of Red and Blue). And at the end of the movie, during Megamind's ceremony, Roxanne is wearing a blue dress. A nice touch by the creative team.
In answer to your question in the credits, a lot of people just text each other to exchange phone numbers. Roxanne could have told him hers. Yes, you could do that on a flip phone.
Fun fact: originally the title that was announced at the 2009 Comic Con was Ubermind and Robert Downey Jr was announced as the title character’s voiceover before retitled/recasted as Megamind
No, not a contrivance. No matter how smart someone is they can still forget things. ESPECIALLY in the midst of an emotional event, like being dumped. Smart people don't "never forget" things.
16:55 Another reviewer pointed this out and said that the reason for Hal turning evil wasn't because Roxanne broke his heart, but because he's a geeky fanboy: the worst kind of person to be given superpowers. If a geek/fanboy gets powers, they start thinking that they can do no wrong and become selfish and arrogant, which always leads to scenes like what happened between Hal and Roxanne on the tower.
9:03 The comment Megamind gives about the reset button becomes funnier after Rick and Morty attempted it...it went about as well as you'd expect Also, given that this is Dreamworks, I think some of the bits that felt like they should have been or didn't get resolved or even MetroMan's arc being excluded MIGHT have been intended to set up a sequel since, well, it's Dreamworks and their known for their sequels
In an alternate world, there would be 3 Megamind movies, Minion movie spinoff, and pictures of Metro Man telling parents not to vaccinate your children.
You mean a Brainbot spinoff?
@@originalindigodingo right
So would despicable me have been a cult classic while all megamind 2, minion and megamind 3 were cashgrabs
@@stephenquinn7931 I thought people liked Despicable Me 2?
How is it that we got 3 Despicable Me movies and a Minions spin off, but no Megamind sequels??
Personally, I think it's better than we never find out what Megamind's parents said to him. It's easy to just let those words define you, but by leaving it vague, it ties into the theme of choice laid out in this movie. Whatever he was destined for, it's not as important as what he chose, who he made himself to be over the course of his life, ultimately ending as a hero.
And I think Megamind forgetting things about the invisible car makes sense for his character. He is really smart, but also kind of an airhead. He can think deeply about something, but doesn't think very wide about it. He's do focused on doing things he doesn't take the consequences into account all the time.
yeah. megamind was clearly a ditzy genius, while roxanne, while not a science genius, was clearly the focused and levelheaded one of the two
It's also appropriate in a comedic sense that they never address it, because it's his remembering things that are ultimately not that important in hindsight. Or perhaps that style of comedy where it's meta-jokes about superhero cliches like that
You can tell what they were going to say, you can just about see them mouthing the word "greatness" or possibly "great things"
Yeah about that.....
In the trailer you hear his dad say it clear as day: Destined for Greatness.
Yeah that was clearly intentional, it doesn't matter what they said his destiny was, he made his own destiny.
Tighten does have a point when he says that Roxanne didn't care who he was before he got superpowers. HOWEVER! There is not a single time where the two of them interacted, before he got superpowers, during which he was not creepy. And there is not a single time where the two of them interacted, after he got superpowers, where he was not downright dangerous. Roxanne has very good reasons for not wanting to get to know him. This is a good example of how it is possible for a person to have a point and still be wrong.
I've heard someone say that Megamind not hearing what his father said he was destined for means it's up to himself to decide what he's destined for.
Hal’s judgement was clouded by nice guy syndrome
The whole Tighten subplot is a really good commentary on toxic masculinity in the way it demonstrates how an obsessive manchild feels entitled to a woman by virtue of association, and how being granted power to do whatever he wants immediately corrupts him by enabling him to live out his selfish power fantasies.
I imagine that's something Lord Batman himself comes to understand at the end of that two-parter, turning himself in along with the rest of the Justice Lords when they're defeated and talking that he needs to be held accountable as well.
Honestly I loved the "A Better World" arc and my only problem with it is the same problem I have with a lot of "Superman goes bad" stories and it's that they make Superman just kind of an outright villain. Yes, his goal in wanting to make a safer world is noble but after he kills Luthor he shows no remorse or questioning for any of the actions he takes. He has no problem with just killing his way through a problem, including other heroes who try to stop him, like the Flash of the main universe.
Superman feeling like he has to take over the world in order to save it and making the hard choices while struggling and acknowledging the unethical nature of what he's doing, that's an interesting story. But Lord Superman is basically just another dictator who thinks he knows better than everyone, the only difference being the S on his chest.
I'll give the Justice Lords one thing over Injustice and that it was the entire team (minus Flash, who was dead) that decided to take over the world. Everyone shares the blames, including Lord Batman. While in Injustice, while other heroes join his regime, Superman bears nearly all of the blame, while moral center of the universe (apparently) Batman stands against him as the big hero. Because Batman's always right, Batman's always perfect, Batman's the only "real" hero.
I feel like it’s more meant as a commentary on people with narcissism and nice guy syndrome
@@mrcritical6751 Obviously, that as well. Yes.
I'd say Megamind leaving his superpower gun in the invisible car and forgetting about it is completely in-character for him. It's established that while he's incredibly intelligent, he's also pretty poor in sense. Plus, you know, going through a break-up would sort of leave you slightly disconnected from reality for a moment.
Also the reason he never tries to just kill Roxanne at Metro Man's museum is more one of the first signs that he's a fundamentally good person at heart who was just convinced he was the bad guy because of how others treated him. It's never even established in the movie if he has an actual body count. It's the reason Roxanne isn't fazed when Megamind pulls out his death traps on her. She knows he's never going to actually use them to harm her.
yeah, and it shows when,
1) when roxanne remains unfazed, megamind cowers thinking "there must be something that scares her", and only enjoying when at least he got to show her he wasn't as predictable as she thought with her not being in the observatory as she assumed.
2) believing his trap was a bust, megamind started to pack things up, just leaving roxanne there to, basically freed herself. he never really cared about her or doing harm to her. he just kidnapped her because it was like the opening act of the game of "heroes and villains".
3) while waiting for titan, megamind just stood there. never really even threatening other people.
megamind was probably put in jail most of the time because he tend to destroy property, but that was it
Also because kidnapping people, even if you don't intend to harm them, is a crime.
@@ianr.navahuber2195 I've even heard people theorize that Megamind had been crushing on Roxanne for a while, and showing off his traps and weapons was all part of a misguided attempt to impress her.
I think part of it is he's so intelligent and Metroman so forgiving an enemy he never really had to develop any common sense.
"It's never even been established in the movie if he has an actual body count."
What about Bernard?
Nothing beats the "presentation" moment, it's like if Loki were the protagonist of Thor. :D
He wasn't?
Or, you know, "Your Savior Has Arrived!"
Ever since I saw the movie, I've wanted to make a comic of The Joker delivering the presentation line to Prometheus.
Bthsr71 *Your savior is here
More like Loki turning up to ruin Thanos' parade
I like how even metro man stated he wasn't given a choice to be the good guy people just made him one
Tyrone Chillifoot Which personally feel like it goes further into the movies theme of, we are our choices, nothing else
Even when things go right for you and you take advantage of it, without choice, it becomes like a prison, I’m sure no one ever *asked* him if he wanted to do this, just started setting things up for it and he excitedly went along with it
Heck interestingly you can say both Megamind and Metroman were sheltered in different ways, Metroman never having to deal with negativity and just kind of feeling like everyone loving him is just a normal status quo rather than a seriously unfair situation on both him and anyone not-him, Megamind likewise is rarely if ever challenged on his idea that bad is his thing and he should just get used to being the criminal and have fun with it
SerenityM16 Actually I think it goes more with the theme of not following what people expect of you and forge your own destiny. Megamind became a villain only because people treated him like he was the “bad guy” so he felt as though that was all he’s good for and in the end decide to become the hero to stop an even worse villain than him. And Metro Man is a similar case, when he asks who would he be without the people of Metro City, he’s SERIOUS, he wouldn’t know where he would be without the people of Metro City, he’s only the hero because it’s what people expected of him, which is why he decides to escape the routine he has by faking his demise and living life as he choses. Even Hal / Tighten follows this theme, albeit in a different way. Megamind as his space dad gives him an expectation of being a hero, which he doesn’t live up to, he decides to defy that idea and become a super villain because he can finally take what he wants with having god like powers and all, and no one can actually stop him, plus before he was Tighten Hal was a loser that no one would probably ever expect to become a legitimately threatening villain, so in a dark sense even he follows this theme.
Another interesting thing is that Metroman suck at playing guitar and signing, he finally found something he isn't naturally good at and has to work to accomplish.
@@SerenityM16 People are as just defined by their experiences as much as their choices.
"Heroes don't have minions"
Alfred.
Eh, that's more like Bruce going, "Hey dad! Can you help me with my superhero thing?" and Alfred being like, "Sure, but if I have to pull one more bullet out of you, you're grounded!"
Robin(s).
He said MOST heroes.
Superman-Robots.
But Crazy Steve is a villain.
Such a wonderful movie. People often call it a discount Despicable Me, but I think it’s _leagues_ better (not that Despicable Me is bad, mind you.)
They came out the same year. That and the fact they're both deconstructing villain tropes are basically the only similarities. It's a real shame that some of Dreamworks' best movies never get the audience they deserve. Sure, HTTYD and KFP had 3 films each and a couple TV shows. It's a real shame that we never got a Megamind follow up, and the best we got for Monsters VS Aliens was an okay show that had no payoff. I'm glad that at least a few of their more underrated movies got Netflix cartoons. Still, much as I like Shrek, I think this movie did deconstruction better in one movie than the ogre did in 4.
+mightyfilm
Not to mention what it’s communicating through its deconstruction- that being a Nice Guy or even a superhero does not automatically entitle you to the girl, and to act like it does is evil- is still relevant today.
Megamind is an overall more mature, of course. It really takes a bite out of that Lois Lane in distress trope, sure. I do see Linkara's point, though. Everyone and their mother has a superhero parody, and that's assuming that actual comic books are too stiff to undermine their own tropes (they aren't). It's not uncommon to get hit with superheroic deconstruction somewhere or another. However, I am a fan of something like Megamind, or especially The Tick, having shades of darker, and/or realistic (or as realistic as possible) consequences and themes. Much better than "wacky hero does something wacky."
Still, it's a shame that the film's success was dictated by the overseas market. Yet when the overseas market is the only one where a film makes money, they still ignore it. It has to be successful everywhere.
Discount? Despicable Me cost $69 million dollars to make while MegaMind was $130 million. That is one of the biggest reason Illuminations Films keeps on making Minion /Illuminations movies. The cost under $80 million and make over $300 world wide.
At the time i wanted a prequel movie that was gru vs. Megamind for villian supreme
"Most good guys don't really have minions."
Most do, actually. They just call them "sidekicks."
A side kick will eventually Inherit all of the hero's possessions
A minion at best gets dental
@@plantainsame2049megamind does obviously care about his minion though so makes sense he’s going to inherit his stuff and therefore end up more as a sidekick
@@userasdfThat's an exception than the norm for minions. On the other hand, sidekicks more regularly inherit their superhero's role or advance to their own seperate career as equals.
Something people don’t bring up about this movie is it shows the importance of having a secret identity.
It’s made clear Metro Man has no secret identity which is likely why he became so jaded and burnt out, he never got to have a normal life. Even when heroes get unmasked, they tend to have at least 2 decades of normalcy before getting thrust into stardom.
It’s reminds me of this exchange from that episode of Superman: The Animated Series where Clark Kent is legally pronounced as dead
Martha: well this is a find mess
Johnathan: well he’s not ACTUALLY dead, he just can’t be Clark anymore
Clark: But I AM Clark! I NEED to be Clark! I’d go crazy if I were Superman all the time
Yo Lewis! Two things about this movie for ya, showing at how deep into detail they went with some things!
1: Blink-and-you'll-miss-it-moment in the beginning. Right after Megamind shouts "Fire!" when both he and Metro Man are on the screens, there's one single frame, where Metro Man is behind Megamind, hinting at the explanation the hero gives towards the end.
2: The camo-watch doesn't change eye color.
Schazmen Rassir That last one was only a setup so the audience could tell Metro Man wasn’t Metro Man before Roxanne could. Whenever anyone changes into Megamind, their eyes turn green, however. That little inconsistency has always bugged me.
@@virtualpianosheets7143 There's also another inconsistency with Megamind's Holo-Watch: when he turns into Space Dad or the warden, his voice changes, but when he's Bernard, he doesn't automatically get his voice.
@@KaiKrimson56 Then with the first two some kind of preparation could take care of it, but Bernard was a spontaneous addition.
@@AntediluvianRomance I never did consider that.
@@AntediluvianRomance or Megamind is good at imitating voices
For those that don't know, there's a mid-credits scene where the real Bernard is rehydrated because Megamind forgot to empty his pockets on laundry day and Minion knocks him out with the forget-me stick.
In a trailer, Megamind's father said his son was destined for greatness. I guess they thought it was funnier to leave it undefined so they edited it out.
@@emberfist8347 Great point!!!
I don’t think funnier as much as going inside with the movie’s theme that we are the choices we made, nothing else
I thought was pretty obvious that's what he said, plus you can lip read him saying it. I've also seen the movie dozens of times as I put on the TVs at work when I at worked in the electronics section at a store. Dreamworks DVDs have the handy thing of restarting themselves, so I put a bunch of them in the DVD players since I had a bunch of lazy coworkers who would let movies sit at the intro screen. (Or found movies that would loop if the player worked with it.)
Glad someone else noticed, I do agree them leaving it undefined fit with the overall message of the film better though.
I could’ve sworn when I saw this in theaters I heard him say “greatness” or maybe I was just good at reading his lips
"Do not send me more copies of bee movie"
Oh Linkara, what have you brought upon yourself with that one simple request?
At best, someone over at Patreon to request. Much like the request for a retrospective on Beetleborgs or him reviewing the Killing Joke movie, he needs the money to do so.
Oh, I've already ordered him 100 copies of Lost Girls!*
*No I didn't.
Bees. My God.
I am annoyed that this movie was overshadowed by Despicable Me. Megamind had far more heart to it, Despicable Me was mostly just comedy. We feel a lot more connection between Megamind and Roxane than we did Gru and the little girls. Plus the conflict in Megamind was our failure of a supervillain going up against an unstoppable menace.
Despicable Me has a bad luck because it has minions in it and they overshadow the heart it has (Gru finding family with the girls, Lucy and later with his twin). However, the worldbuilding is nice (with villains having their own convention, bank etc.).
But yeah, minions are overrated and grating.
I liked despicable me... except for the minions (of course they would be the main part to be remembered...). I didn't feel like it was lacking in heart, but more so for a younger audience than megamind (even though megamind is technically a kid's movie as well, I do think they deliberately put things in it that could connect to an older audience, beyond parental bonus jokes)
@@remnants9974 I thought the Minions were funny, but I dislike the saturation of them and the influence they have had on animation.
@@dragonstormx yeah its annoying enough that I wouldnt cry if despicable me never existed so the saturation of minions never happened...but on its own, the movie is cute
Linkara: "Do not send me more copies of Bee Movie".
Me: (looks at The Bee Movie Shelf, a Shelf Containing 100 copies of Bee Movie)
Me: It...is time.
"This is what I've trained for!"
AS THE LEGENDS HAVE FORETOLD!
@@Sperium3000 "OH THE HUGE MANATEE!!"
some men just want to watch the world burn
according to all known laws of aviation,
I would say Metroman is a great depiction of Superman, you see, Metro City is over there and over there should take care of itself.
more like a reason why, even if superman decided to out hismelf willingly, why the clark kent identity was a need
Boy I wish this movie came out after that because I can really see them having Metro Man say that.
@@ianr.navahuber2195 what kind of word is hismelf?
@@CycloneShadowYT me typing wrong
Honestly that line is over-memed. He was telling that to a normal, non-superpowered boy. And the message boils down to “try to help yourself and those around you before stressing about the world at large.” Which is a bad message to give to a superhero and a good mesage to give a freaking normal kid.
16:55 honestly I disagree with this statement. While I agree that there's a certain level of self-awareness in his characterization before he becomes powered but he pretty much was a narcissistic deviant and I don't really see how the movie is trying to pass any blame onto Roxanne. If anything, Megamind is more responsible for giving him powers and unintentionally enabling his toxicity
And the point of Hal was that he saw himself as the victim and choose to blame Roxanne for his own problems even know he try to be something he not and never really accepted he was never going to be in a relationship with her as she only saw him as a friend
I also did do a video pointing out Hal and Roxanne Relationship in the movie and they made it clear that the movie never pass the blame on Roxanne at first but when your older you kind of see yourself in Roxanne shoes
She didn’t even see him as a friend to her he was just her weirdo co-worker who said creepy stuff to her, there’s a reason why when she tries to get Hal to stop her argument is for him to go back to being the old Hal who liked dip and bouncy houses because that’s the only part of his personality he showed her he never tried to connect to her on an emotional level he just let out creepy chat up lines and date offers without letting her get to know him first
@@mrcritical6751 That the thing Mr critical i felt Roxanne putting up with Hal creepy and weird behavior showed she try to be his friend but kept being put off by Hal Creepy ways and felt he just needed someone but still kept away from him but like i said that just me
@@comicbookreviewer4856 I think it was just Roxanne showing common courtesy and being a nice person. When Hal’s doing his whole “I would watch you” speech at the beginning of the movie you can see she’s a little creeped out but also has a face that says “this guy’s weird but he’s harmless I’ll just humour him”
Lewis, buddy, LIGHT of my LIFE, never ever ever EVER tell your audience not to do something! Now, you're gonna get a refrigerator box full of copies of Bee Movie!
TheDUDERulez1 I concur.
Even I was tempted to mail you a copy of the thing just to illustrate the point.
😂😂😂 best comment yet
@@z1pperintheback657 i don't get why people see bee movie as a meme film. i watched it as a kid. i thought it was okay. tha was end of story
Bees my god!
Ian R. Nava Huber I don’t view it as a meme movie.
I view it as reminder to Linkara of what happened when Spoony told his fans not to send him gifts.
Linkara:"Do not send me more copies of bee movie"
Me: *checks ebay*
Moreorlesser I can only hope he got Prince of Egypt
Hells yeah!
@@Multifandom_mess12 He did, as well as every single hand-drawn, CGI and stop-motion film from Dreamworks.
Bee Movies... My god.
Oh, if I were gonna pull that crap, I would actually go one step further in a meta sense and start mailing Lewis dozens of copies of VCR Golf.
This is probably the 9th person today who's gonna tell you this, but I kinda appreciate this movie for the small bits of detail it adds.
For example, if you go back to the beginning of the movie when Metro Man is stuck in the copper dome, you can actually BARELY see him zip around in superspeed for the revelation found near the 3rd act. You gotta go frame by frame, but that is EXCELLENT attention to plot detail, and a great rewatch bonus for when you're reviewing other stuff and run out of good stuff on Shudder.
Dang! I watched it a few time, but I never saw it. I'll have to look for it.
“This movie really does not like babies”
Well, the director also directed The Boss Baby
Really? Damn, how the mighty have fallen also I looked up the director and found out he also voiced Skipper in the Madagascar films and he's going to direct Boss Baby 2
So the statement was confirmed then
Oh he REALLY doesn’t like babies XD
Maldon 365 Eh, honestly Megamind was a product of its time (which is one reason why we never got a sequel) when everyone was churning out parodies (I mean, the movie before this was Monsters vs Aliens), and falls into much of the same failings other movies they made did, despite the clever bits to the downright brilliant bits
From Megamind... to Boss Baby...
Ooooof. Where did that life go wrong?
To it's credit, it is nice seeing a good super hero deconstruction on this show after years of terrible takes on that
its a REALLY good deconstruction as its not mean spirited about it at all, deconstructs multiple cliches in the genre, and ultimately reconstructs it by havign Megamind become a hero in the climax
Yeah. A lot of deconstructionist works are just spiteful and condescending, like “You’re all sheeple for liking these things and r/iamverysmart for knowing everything sucks”.
Looking at you, The Boys.
+ULGROTHA
I don’t know much about the show, but to me, the fact that it got adapted into a show at this point just goes to show how many edgy, cynical teenagers there are in the world. Works where the central theme is that superbeings would all be evil jerks in real life just reek of teenage pretentiousness to me.
@@Dreigonix boys is a good show lol
@@tobsonasanya4765 Better than the "lOoK aT mE, iM a wAtChMeN rIpPoFf, iM sMoRt" creepypaste-esque levels of edgy comic book it's based on? *yes, absolutely*.
Good on it's own, on a vacuum ignoring the current situations? debatable.
Good on the context of a flood of pseudo-cynical "sUpErHeRoEs aR3 bAd"media done by pseudo-intelectuals? uhhhhh.....
One detail I love in this film is the color change throughout the film for Roxanne’s clothes it goes from red to eventually reaching blue.
"My tastes are weird..." I lost count of how many times I heard that across the computer service counter at the electronics store I worked at in college.
Welp, that's _one_ way of telling you not to check their search history...
21:12 that's because he knew both megamind and him were doing an act. sure megamind caused property damage but most of the time that was it. it shows why he prefers to just hide from roxanne back at the statue instead of just killing her. or when he thinks his trap failed, he starts packing things up and leave when he could just kill roxanne
even the thigns he hits with the dehydration gun aren't killed, just put into a temporary stasis until made wet again, so he never actually kills people, and even the one time he thought he actually killed someone even he was surprised and taken aback and eventually regretted it.
I've watched this movie a lot when it came out and after some time, I realized that Metro Man isn't as bad as one may think. I mean, even fi he's privilaged and, as a kid, kind of contributed to Megamind's situation, he was still a child and didn't know any better. Also if you think about it very hard, you can say that Megamind is closest person Metro Man has to a friend and theese three - Metro Man, Megamind and Minion - can understand their situation the best, because they are all aliens without home.
I don't think there are flaws of character that Metro Man should address in the end. The only thing I don't like about him is that he didn't help with defeating the Tighten.
Then again - whenever people are talking about Megamind and how he was failed by society on multiple levels and his treatment led him to become a supervillain, barely anybody addresses that Metro Man was forced to be a superhero just because he has superpowers. With Megamind, Metro Man, Minion - hell, even with Roxanne Ritchi - we have a situation where society operates on certain roles (superhero, supervillain, minion, damsel in distress) and kind of forces those roles on these four.
Metro man's not a villain, but he's not a hero, and that's okay
and of course he'd know megamind well enough to see what everyone else couldn't see: that he, deep down, could be a hero if given the chance
Carefull, don't even dare to call out Society on it's crap, do as Society says and never question anything, join the -Grave-Hivemind in an everlasting chorus of a single entity on multiple bodies .
P.D. I find weird you're one of the few who point out the detail of Metro Man not helping during the final fight, I guess he wanted Megamind to beat the villian on his own so the "you can be a hero too" spiel landed?
Or considering he's supposed to be the Superman of this world he concluded Metro City was "Over There"...
"Bee movie but every time they say Bee we send Linkara another copy
Of Bee Movie"
20:59 What the Megamind's parents were wonna say is not important, since they didn't finish Megamind can become anything he wants to be, alsothe whole movie answers it by showing Megamind's jouney to become a hero despite growing being put in the role of the villain by society just like Metroman was put in the role of the hero. Since Megamind and Metroman grow up fighting each other at some point they come to understand one another, all the time they were like friends, like the old/current Saturday morning action comedy "at Cartoon Network" the villain and the hero are friends even if they fight.
So... like Ralph and Sam, clocking in to work and having lunch together before they go back to work?
A few things I’ve seen, based on my multiple watching of the movie... In no particular order:
- With the invisible car, I chalk that up to his excitement followed by heartbrokenness, that he didn’t take note of the car.
- On the other side of things, he remembers his parents so well because that was the last he saw of them.
- Speaking of his parents, I believe they said “destined for greatness/great things”.
- I’d just like to applaud the attention to detail the movie makers had. From spotting MetroMan behind Megamind near the start (yeah it was the wrong line they show during the explanation, but I think that was done for humour’s sake) to setting up things that are both subtle but also lead up to a later point (like the eye colors)
- With the watch, I feel like the reason he didn’t are Bernard’s voice was because he was in rush... Just a random point.
- Onto Hal, yeah she didn’t bother to get to know him, but he was also a really creepy person who believed she owed him her love, just because he’s a “nice guy”. Megamind, meanwhile, spent time with her, with no real pretence (to begin with) and even after he fell in love, he never pressured her, or her to love him... In short, people made assumptions about Roxanne, but Megamind took the time to get to know her, and do things just because.
I may have missed some stuff, but that’s my thought...
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Edit: I remember a few more I had meant to make!
- End credits scene, Bernard ends up in the washing machine.
- The reason I didn’t think it was odd that MetroMan didn’t mind Megamind was that the two of them always knew the whole battle for good and evil thing wasn’t “real”. Yeah, Megamind put people’s lives at risk, and yeah, he’s a villain, but the whole way through, he seems like a kid at play. MetroMan always escaped so he could trap him and set off a deathray, he always kidnaped the same girl, who wasn’t the least bit worried about her safety because he had clearly never actually harmed her, and overall, if you see the way he does evil, he doesn’t seem interested in actual harm, just acting the part. Megs said it himself “presentation”. He’s presenting a persona based on what he was taught.
A note, for people who don't know:
In the artbook it states that Megamind's plots are considered safe enough to bring babies to watch.
It's literally a hero/villain show that the citizens love. Megamind probably has all the life sentences from kidnapping Roxanne alone. No body count.
However, while Megamind was enjoying the show (it's the only way he really got attention, after all), Metro Man didn't, really. He has no secret identity or anything. He never gets a break from being 'the hero'. He enjoyed the attention as a kid, but it makes sense that, over time, it would become hollow and meaningless to him. I mean, he's not even actually 'saving' anyone. Who does Megamind kill when Metro Man is gone? No one. He's literally harmless. He just does massive amounts of property damage. He even stops kidnapping Roxanne.
Now Lewis is going to get hundreds of people sending Bee movie dvds to him.
Oh god, BEEEES
You'd think someone who's been on the internet this long would know you NEVER tempt your fans by asking them Not to send him something.
Hey, free money. Can't complain about that
Oh, you didn’t talk about the mid-credits scene with Bernard (Megamind forgot to take his cube out of his pocket so when it went into the washing machine, Bernard was rehydrated).
Otherwise, I enjoyed the review. I love Megamind, so seeing it get some attention in a review was just great. Although I would argue against the film partially blaming Roxie; Titan was deluded and was a creep, so I think it’d make sense that he would blame Roxie for his issues.
Otherwise though, liked the review. Looking forward to next week.
not only that but we are clearly shown Hal NEVER wanted anything other than for Roxanne to date him, so him blaming her for not 'being his friend' is just him trying to deflect responsibility as well as commentary on toxic 'nice guys'.
Right? It was Hal who was blaming her for the problems, not the movie. It's played exactly as it would play out, so at that point, you are trained in movies to go "Oh maybe Hal has a point?" But that's the wrong feeling because Hal is trying to gain sympathy from the audience, as much as he is trying to get it from Roxanne. I will say that I agree with Linkara, that Megamind should have apologized for real in the movie. That's the biggest shortcoming I think.
@@TakaComics Not sure I agree, when she asked him if he really thought she could fall for him, he said no and walked away, that is what makes him different from Hal.
Roxanne doesn’t owe Hal a damn thing. He thought she’d suddenly fall for him if he had powers but that’s not the case. It’s somewhat a deconstruction on the notion in superhero comics that the female character ends up with the superhero. Sure, she ends up with Megamind but up until that point she thought he was a bad guy and there’s a lot he needs to make up for.
I think megamind’s outfits are mainly inspired by Emperor Ming from Flash Gordon. I think the better joke would be “Jeez, does Emperor Ming know you raid his wardrobe?” Just something for your next top 15 missed opportunities.
Yeh, I was thinking Ming as well. The end?
17:07 the truth is, it’s not the writers trying to convince Roxanne. It’s her fault it’s Tighten himself.
He’s gaslighting her. It’s actually something that he was doing to her a few times in the movie even before he got his powers.
So him trying to place the blame on Roxanne is just another example of him trying to pass the blame onto her for not reciprocating his feelings.
It actually shows how good he is at doing this if a lot of people think that’s what the writing is trying to do.
Because that’s what gaslighting does, it’s a very deceptive manipulation tactic.
I once found some concept art that revealed Roxanne was originally going to get infused with Metro Man's powers as well and then save Megamind from Tighten. So instead of the hero becoming the villain and the villain becoming the hero while the damsel has to be the damsel again, we would have had a complete switch around of the hero becoming the villain, the villain becoming the damsel, and the damsel becoming the hero.
The movie's climax is fine as it is. But I still kind of wish we'd gotten to see this.
Honestly if Megamind infused Roxanne, she'd given him exactly what he was asking for....a hero to beat the day lights out of him as she made a far better choice than Hal did. Granted the story was not about the maintaining the status quo and being master of your own destiny. I think they didn't go that route was it would reduced megamind to a bystander at the climax if they'd gone that route. They needed him to win thru his own intelligence over Tighten/Hal. I also appreciate the greenlantern nod of Hal Jordan+ John Stewart= Hal Stewart.
I feel if they had done it that way they should’ve had it be more of a team up, Roxanne distracts Hal whilst Megamind figures out how to defuse the powers from him eventually finding the defuse gun in the invisible car
"Do not send me more copies of Bee Movie."
Clearly Linkara has never heard of something called "The Streisand Effect."
I like how at 0:34, you can see how Linkara’s face gradually contorts with disgust as more and more DreamWorks movies are unveiled to him.
17:40 - 17:49 My favorite line is after the real warden wishes Megamind and Minion good luck, and Megamind yells,
"WE'RE GONNA DIE!"
Two things I really like about Megamind are the action and the setup/payoff of certain elements. It really feels more clever than it needs to be with Megamind surviving his fall with the dehydration ray, the way the hologram technology is implemented in the final battle, and how Megamind's own unique speech mannerisms undo him a bit during the fight. The way Titan is animated during the fight is, at least to me, one of the more frightening examples of "Superman but bad", because I really feel the force and strength behind each punch. The idea that someone with a toxic, selfish attitude gains Superman-like powers is more interesting to me than the assumption that Superman is unrealistic because he uses his powers for good.
One criticism I absolutely can get behind is that Megamind should have genuinely apologized to Roxanne, and I don't buy that she holds any responsibility for the way Titan turned out. He made the decision to become evil on his own, simply because he assumed she _should_ get together with him. She didn't owe him a relationship, and he was certainly asking her out at an insensitive time, considering Metroman had just seemingly died and she was at least a friendly acquaintance of the late superhero.
"Do not send me more copies of Bee Movie."
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"NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES!"
I know someone used this joke before, but I have to!
_"A deadly Bee weapon. Bees. My God."_
"Hal Stewart....Cute."
I like how that's his reaction to the reference, cause I bet that was sales pitch used by fans of the movie. An interesting twist.
Megamind's De-gun has a "De-moralize, De-bilitate, and De-compress" settings
9:27 within the year, Linkara would forget his own advice, not install a pause button on HIS timer, and blow up his house. This is what 2020 does to people.
5:43
Are you accusing me of kidnapping a reporter? Why would I ever do such a thing?
The thing about Megamind is, while he is technologically a genius, able to make all these gadgets, robots, and other things. He's kind of a complete idiot in all other regards, from his constant mispronunciation of common words to the mentioned "forgetting where he parked his car".
@ULGROTHA That exactly
The end of this makes me want a "Top Ten Superhero Deconstructions" list.
My favorite thing from this whole movie is Metroman no-selling having things thrown at his face. I'd love to see Supes do that.
I think Man of Steel did that, but not as funny.
Whoever came up with the "Metro City" vs "Metrocity" gag was clearly a Sonic fan.
21:07
I don't know if the movie says that Metroman _did_ hate Megamind. The talk in the schoolhouse isn't just about how he's changed; it's also the only time he's not preforming Metroman for the crowd. I figured that he was a less-than-intelligent rich kid who went along with what people told him until he got fed up and quit. When they're kids Metroman is a little prick, sure; but when they bantered in the big fight they seemed amicable enough.
Still, an on screen moment to verify for Metro Man how much he affected Mega Mind in life would've helped.
Plus, you could easily argue that Megamind was the only person Metroman had an honest relationship with.
"Girls, you're BOTH pretty. Can I go home now?"
Megamind is a lovely dreamworks movie. Not groundbreaking but good fun. The humor and characters are some of its best qualities.
I feel like over time Metroman had just come to know Megamind enough to realise that he's not really a proper bad guy. He does villainous things, but he does them like a very genuine person who just wants to impress. He's like a good guy who has just taken the role of a bad guy because he never considered being the good guy before. He's a very cartoonish character like that.
Ok but what's most important here is now you have a copy of the second greatest animated movie of all time: Kung Fu Panda.
*cocks out gun*
What's the first?
@@ZatchZXman Kung-Fu Panda 2, obviously.
Cartoon Critic Good sequels to animated movies are rare
Thankfully it’s one of the best
You're... sure?
I mean I like it just fine, but there are several movies that are greater.
Megamind tends to poke fun at superhero tropes. It’s kind of a semi-parody for superhero movies becuase of this. That’s why his father’s “destined for…” line happens. It’s part of the running theme this movie has going for it. Same thing for the first time Roxanne meets Titan (or Tighten I suppose). It’s supposed to be light-hearted and romantic (kinda like Superman and Lois), but it doesn’t turn out that way.
Essentially, Megamind pokes fun at superhero tropes, then subverts your expectations by not following through on those tropes. It’s part of the charm this movie has and it’s one of the reasons I like it. Is it the near superhero film, hell no, but it’s a good kid flick and fun for adults too. This movie also has lots of foreshadowing and callbacks.
"Do not send me more copies of bee movie"
Oh Linkara.
What have you done
Now to see Linkara go up against a real villain. Not Megamind I mean UA-cam’s Content ID.
*welcome to the jungle, we got fun and games*
Blake Tyson
Oh it's a villain alright, just not a SUPER villain.
Hence all those awkward freeze frames and short clips.
If anything else, Megamind does have a great taste in music.
3:45 ironically DreamWorks is now owned by Universal Studios so a crossover With the Minions of Despicable Me is completely possible.
If you read their lips, Megamind's parents were telling him "you are destined for greatness."
and what can be greater than being able to love yourself, your friends, have someoen who is your intellectual equal and cares about you, and have an entire city loving you just because of who you are?
I found the villain surprisingly scary, I have to say. How quickly, and violently, he changed once he realized he could do as he pleased.
Fun fact: One of my friends honestly thought Linkara voiced Hal in this movie. I thought I could almost hear it too. Would have been an interesting point on your resume at least.
I think it works better that we do t know what Megamind’s parents were trying to say. I think the point of that bit is that Megamind, much like Metro Man, has spent his life doing what everyone expected of him, because he thought he had some great destiny to fulfill and all signs pointed to “fight this guy.” That’s also why he was willing to accept Hal as his new rival, thinking that since random chance had given him the powers, he was meant to be the new Metro Man.
It was only after seeing Titan and Metro Man reject the destinies others had put on them that he was willing to choose his own fate and do what felt right instead of what he was told to do. Even Rebecca’s comment about heroes being made not born seems to reflect this, but of course Megamind missed the point until later.
The "presentation" bit is one of my favorite moments in all superhero Cinema.
This movie should get a sequel.
A true sequel.
I don't know. I feel like Megamind is perfectly fine as a standalone piece. It feels complete, like it doesn't need any addition to its story or universe. I love the movie, but I just don't think it's necessary.
@@DalekTheSupreme, I think a sequel would give answers to some questions the 1st movie created.
For example, what was the destiny thing Megamind's dad was talking about?
yeah the movie seems pretty complete. A sequel wouldn;t be unwlcome, just not necessary.
but then, you can say that about every sequel.
@@DalekTheSupreme the only reason i want a sequel to megamind is because i genuinely enjoyed it that much... other wise, yeah, i agree, its a full package, it has no need of sequels.
In regards to linkara observation on megamind not killing roxanne because her seeing him in his pjs it points to a deeper layer to his character and the movie themes in that despite him being put in and loving the supervillain role hes not actually a bad person. He treats minion well and respect, doesn’t harm Roxanne (or anyone else) whenever he kidnaps her to the point even she knows they’re empty threats even without metroman saving her, shocked as everyone that he “kills” metroman partially because he didn’t think he could before and because he never wanted to. It was the presentation and show that he loved. Same goes with metroman in that despite being the hero he’s shown to be vain egotistical fame hungry. They were both thrown into the roles they play and while megaminf grew to love it metroman grew to resent it.
Ya know, when someone says "Megaminds dad's speech is cut off".... Did no one read his lips? Me personally, I actually read "Greatness" out of there, but I just might be really dumb on that.
He said greatness in one of the trailers. Or at least I remember that being the case.
AFter also watching the Nostalgia Critic's review of MegaMind, I learned Ben Stiller played Bernard, and had an Exec. Producer credit, and Guillermo del Toro worked as a "creative consultant".
"A deadly Bee Movie. Bees, my God"-Batman
15:31 Or an invincible car alarm that makes it briefly visible like in that one Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy episode on Spongebob.
Sometimes you don’t need a film to be a life changing event, just a fun way to kill two hours on a rainy day. And that was Megamind for me.
As for next week, yeah, it’s going to SUUUUUCK.
Yeah. I'm tired of people trashing DreamWorks for not making them cry like Pixar does. Comedy is just as valid as drama. A movie doesn't have to tug at your heartstrings to be good.
when you say ”don’t send me any more copies of the Bee movie” it’s an invitation for everyone to send you 50 copies of the Bee movie
18:01 only a true supervillain could show up for a fight in a swarm of robots shaped like his own head.
Hal was basically DreamWorks trying to warn us about incels.
It was definitely ahead of its time.
Nobody really talked about that sort of thing until a few years after the movie.
Then the term “nice guy” started circling around.
@@Nazo-kageAnother slang word that needs to die in a fire.
Along with Jonah Hill trying to warn us about himself...
@@WalkmanWillWalkAllOverYou Too soon…….
When people look at this film and use the Superman analogy, they think about what would happen if Lex Luthor won. But another important comparison is what happens if there was never a Clark Kent, that Superman was Superman 24/7.
I thought bernard was the Clark Kent
Lands in a prison and raised by the inmates... so he's alien Bane?
One of my favourite movies from my favourite animation companies. I understand your critiques but I still love it. It's a shame it never got a sequel or TV show like other DreamWorks film's. Never realised the green lantern reference before with Hal Stewart. And seeing as he's Ginger is that actually three lanterns in one? And lastly I have to agree with Megamind and Riddler. The difference is showmanship.
According to TV Tropes, Tighten was based on '90s anti-heroes. That would explain his Gambit hair.
My favorite movie? holy crow, thank you random citizen who requested this. And thank you Lewis for reviewing this!
"Just because I don't drop f-bombs doesn't means this channel is for kids, youtube!"
Aaaaaaand that's something people doing animation for adults should REALLY put into their skull. Thanks for pointing out, Linkara^^
On a sidenote, my feeling on Megamind are exactly the same than you; I think the movie's okay, but I don't get the hype because I have actually seen a lot of subversion/deconstructions of superheroes before, so I wasn't really shocked by what the movie offered.
“......Fuck, man. What else is there to say?” - Todd, Bojack Horseman
Most F-bombs in Bojack are mostly only done when he’s completely ruined his relationship with someone, with one exception to that rule. Well, technically two, but still.
Man that intro doesn’t have a shred of irony it’s just terrific
Famous last words or what not to do on the internet 101- "Please do NOT send me _______." Yeah, that always works, LOL!
I never even knew about the similarities between Megamind and Despicable Me until someone pointed it out. They just seem like completely different movies. Gru isn't anywhere near as likable of a character as Megamind. He had his moments like blasting that cheating carnival guy.
also punching a shark in the face
Honestly its like the Book of Life and Coco: while they have some base similarities, they're two completely unrelated films and one did not rip off the other.
She is being blamed, but by the bad guy, so take the whole thing with a grain of salt you know, what it's meant to do is satirize the whole "this isn't you you don't have to be like this" speech, which would and should never work in real life.
0:56 Translation: Send him more Bee Movie or Monster Musume.
4:54 This is America.
10:32 Or his minion.
17:34 I think Hal is what some people would call a "nice guy" or ugh, "Incel". He's someone that thinks that he can get the girl just by being nice to her, and then expects a reward for doing what you should be doing in the first place.
NO!!! MORE JOJO!!!!!!!!!!!
@@rikukicksass07 I second that!
So, Yondu stopping his crew from eating Peter Quill.
"Do not send me more copies of Bee Movie."
Well, it could be worse. I'm sure I'll think of some way in which it could be worse if you give me enough time.
"Not if it was made by Illumination Entertainment."
THE MINIONS MOVIE! That's how it could be worse. Thank you for providing that.
"My tastes are weird"
My favorite video game is Final Fantasy VI, a game with themes of existential drama about the nature of love and family, the inner conflict between hope and despair in the face of hardship, and the morality of using and abusing power to fight against an evil foe doing the same, and it also features suicide, genocide, war crimes, and the apocalyptic destruction of the entire world biosphere. And then one day I decided "I'm gonna make a romhack of this game to turn it into a My Little Pony story!"
People are weird, own it. Normal is boring.
Why is that weird? It's one of the most popular games in one of the biggest gaming franchises ever.
@@seb24789 Weird that I made into a story about ponies.
DrakeyC: Nah, fam. That’s the power of mashups. The strangest things can combine well. (I mean, someone made a Phoenix Wright/My Little Pony crossover, and it was kind of brilliant.)
@@ShinyAvalon True, and ofc there's Fallout Equestria
yOU'RE THE ONE WHO MADE THAT ROMHACK!? I played it once!
I don't think it was the movie blaming Roxanne for not being friends with Hal, it was definitely just him. Given it was showing Hal as a power-crazed lunatic driven that way in part by society overlooking him, I think the toxic masculinity angle was very intentional.
Oh, did it include "Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron"? I like that movie.
It did.
If superman was in this movie, he'd tell off Metroman, break Tighten into a million pieces, and then fly off.
What about Captain Marvel or Shazam
Linkara, my week didn't exactly start off well. This latest video of yours has really helped cheer me up a bit.
I fear after this video Lewis, will have to "My god bees!" If he opens up a box completely filled with the bee movie.
Jacob Riggs You mean “Bees. My God.”
Love the review, I've never seen this movie but I'm now wanting to see it so thank you. Also Kitty at 8:07 ! I love cats.
To be fair. That soother is a power source that powers his gun. So he can’t make a new one without it. And I never felt like they were putting any blame on Roxanne for Hal’s behaviour.
As pointed out by CinemaWins, there's a bit of visual exposition you may not have noticed. When the film begins, during the ceremony for Metro Man, Roxanne is wearing a red dress (which is the opposite of Megamind's Blue Skin). During the section of the movie where she's getting to know Megamind (while he's posing as Bernard), she wears a purple dress (a combination of Red and Blue). And at the end of the movie, during Megamind's ceremony, Roxanne is wearing a blue dress.
A nice touch by the creative team.
In answer to your question in the credits, a lot of people just text each other to exchange phone numbers. Roxanne could have told him hers. Yes, you could do that on a flip phone.
8:59 There's a Code Lyoko joke to be made here but it's escaping me.
Someday there’s going to be a PO Box video where the only things he gets are Bee Movie dvds
2:45 There's a worm on the hook in the opening to Shark Tale.
Fun fact: originally the title that was announced at the 2009 Comic Con was Ubermind and Robert Downey Jr was announced as the title character’s voiceover before retitled/recasted as Megamind
No, not a contrivance. No matter how smart someone is they can still forget things. ESPECIALLY in the midst of an emotional event, like being dumped. Smart people don't "never forget" things.
16:55 Another reviewer pointed this out and said that the reason for Hal turning evil wasn't because Roxanne broke his heart, but because he's a geeky fanboy: the worst kind of person to be given superpowers. If a geek/fanboy gets powers, they start thinking that they can do no wrong and become selfish and arrogant, which always leads to scenes like what happened between Hal and Roxanne on the tower.
9:03 The comment Megamind gives about the reset button becomes funnier after Rick and Morty attempted it...it went about as well as you'd expect
Also, given that this is Dreamworks, I think some of the bits that felt like they should have been or didn't get resolved or even MetroMan's arc being excluded MIGHT have been intended to set up a sequel since, well, it's Dreamworks and their known for their sequels