It was a good time. Will Ferrell voices the title character, a super-intelligent alien who crashes to Earth as a baby and grows up to become a supervillain, while Brad Pitt is Metro Man, the Superman-style good guy who follows the same path to become a superhero instead and vows to stop him.
What keeps this from being just an ordinary superhero film is that for once, the bad guy wins in the first 15 minutes. Megamind's latest overly convoluted evil plan involving kidnapping Metro Man's reporter friend Roxanne Ritchi (voiced by Tina Fey) and using her for bait for a deadly trap actually succeeds in dispatching Metro Man for good, much to the surprise of the entire population of Metro City, Megamind's faithful minion, Minion (a hysterical, scene-devouring David Cross), a stunned Roxanne, and especially Megamind himself.
Megamind is a smart guy, but he's altogether unprepared to handle actually winning, and that's where the movie really begins. Cleverly written and often laugh out loud funny, I definitely recommend this one for superhero fans, families, and anyone who enjoys seeing a talking piranha in a robotic gorilla suit wearing a apron.
You had me at talking piranha.
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