I totally agree about her hair. It’s very rare that I like short do’s on women. Hers is a hair don’t.
Metro City??? punches whoever named it that
That’s so jacked up…I hate Jeff Katz. 
Edit: I realize I totally blew up(again), and I tried to make it less…violent?
Uncool… Just uncool. 
First 5 minutes: youtube.com/watch?v=QjAqZs2CKzg
Is it me or is the music a little too loud? Anyway, it’s quite sad. I can’t help but feel bad for Megamind. This has so much emotional potential. I seriously hope they won’t screw up the other parts of the movie.
^Okay, I admit that was pretty good, especially for…them. claps loudly 
That is a pretty good opening! You really get a sense of the intense rivalry and personal history between Megamind and Metro Man. Poor Megamind is a victim of circumstances, as they would say. And Minion is as endearing as ever!
Thanks for the link, Oh_Andy. Let’s hope the rest of the movie is just as good!
Feel like it would be better without the narration. But I actually liked it quite a bit. Good animation.
I thought the narriation fit quite nice.
Poor Megamind…I know how he feels, being the black sheep of the school yard. weeps in corner
I wanna see this even more now!
The narration was okay for me. I thought the whole thing was just so-so, but it was pretty good compared to some other DW’s stuff in my opinion. I still can’t tell if it’ll be good, I’ll just have to wait and see 
Hmm… good point. Dreamworks always underestimates the audience with needless exposition.
Wow, I actually kinda liked it! As Bryko said, good animation. I also had a few laughs.
That was very good! I honestly thoroughly enjoyed it. You watch the two main characters ‘grow up’ in a sense and it really helps to make them feel a bit more real and appealing. The beginning was so gosh-darn adorable! Baww Baby Megamind with his binky and Minion. 8’D So cute.
Did anyone see How to Train Your Dragon? It had drop-dead gorgeous animation, even though it wasn’t Pixar. 
This really does look great. I like that DW has come to a point where their humans look realistic without being overly realistic, and at the same time still retaining a cartoon quality.
I really hope that the rest of the movie is as promising as the beginning… and if I can come up with some extra cash, I just might go see this when it comes out in theaters. 
little chef
I’m actually interested in this. On DVD, though. Used DVD. I always buy my DW movies used.
I just got Kung Fu Panda at the used book store <3
Omg. I fell in love with Berk for some odd reason. It’s, like, my Pandora. And when the movie ended, I became depressed for about a week.
Anyway, on to Megamind. You know what I really hope Metro man’s excuse for being alive would be? “Oh, I was sick and tired of saving all these people and when I saw that you were about to kill me, I decided to this was my opportunity to pursue music” I mean, maybe he lost his power or something that’s why he can’t be a superhero anymore? Please?!
Oh_Andy: Another die-hard HtTYD fan? Let’s be friends forever, mkay? xDDD
But no, seriously. I know it wasn’t said directly here, so please don’t twist my words and make me sound like I’m accusing anyone specifically, but I’ve heard it before… and nothing bothers me more than when people automatically diss some animated movie’s animation just because it doesn’t have a Pixar label… so automatically, the animation is deemed ‘not as good as’ Pixar. And that really bothers me. Because honestly, Dreamworks is just as good as Pixar, animation-wise. Forget about the stories and lame jokes for a sec, their animation is brilliant. And so is the animation coming from studios like Walt Disney Animation and Sony Pictures (or whatever company did Despicable Me.)
I guess I’m just really sick of this whole ‘It’s not Pixar, so the animation isn’t as good’ undertone that comes through in a lot of the posts regarding some other studio’s work. And some studios’ animation really does suck, but I’m talking about when people say that (or at least imply it) about an animated film with perfectly fine animation.
I had to get that out. I really did.
That aside, I’m totally willing to give this film a chance. My opinion about it really had a 180° turnaround when I watched those five minutes, and I’m even willing to give DW box office money in hopes that they’ve done something good with this. Five minutes may mean nothing, and the rest of the film could be a complete departure from it, but again - willing to give it a chance. It’s beginning to look promising from here.
little chef
I have to agree with you in the matter that Dreamworks has crated some good animation.
But the clue to quality is constancy.
And while Pixar has made eleven movies, all in the same vein of excellence, you gotta admit some of Dreamwork’s efforts haven’t kept the level. And then you have both Madagascar movies, Shark Tale and even the latest Shrek sequels (which almost look just like the original, without the kind of improvement you see in each Toy Story movie trough time).
And the same happens to the script aspect of the movie. They can create one wonderful movie, but if they release three uninspired titles for each good one, there’s inconstancy in their work.
That’s the reason why Pixar succeeds.
I’m also willing to give this a chance. Yes, I prefer Pixar over Dreamworks anyday, but I have enjoyed some of their films like Over The Hedge and Monsters Vs Aliens.
I have something to add to Rood’s speech.
Some studios aren’t as ‘financially blessed’ as Pixar, so they simply don’t have the renderpower. They probably would be able to pull off awesome graphics and ‘ohmygodIjustcame’-SFX, but the production time of the movie would go up to 6 to 10 years instead of the average 4, which is by the way already hard to afford for smaller studios: 4 years of production time for a single movie.
You guys do realize that most time of the production time of a computer animated feature is spent on rendering, right? A lot of renderpower saves a lot of time, which allows you to put a lot more detail and effects into a movie while taking up the same amount of rendertime. Companies that can’t afford this are… generally screwed.
EDIT: Above post doesn’t refer to Dreamworks, by the way. Dreamworks has enough money to spend on good animation, which they do. But I’m talking about the smaller studios, the studios which apparently suck because they have uninspired, bad artists, as a lot of people seem to claim. What a lot of people don’t realize is that these people have a lot to offer, enough fantasy to fill a movie with but not the tools to make it happen. That’s a very frustrating fact, and I respect the studios that still manage to pull off something nice under these circumstances.
About the money and those small studios, I completely agree.
^ Seconded, though Pixar is beginning to lose its luster for me only recently.
Though I would use a politer expression to describe their special effects, yes, I totally agree with you, Czarine. That’s why I try to view animated films from countries with infant animation industries like India, China, France, Spain, Australia and Singapore objectively without too much emphasis on the aesthetics. As long as they have a good story and they tell it well, I’ll be impressed.
I know this from personal experience. It’s a real pain in the butt, and you need multiple computers and many nights spent at work just to render a single sequence of Luxo Jr. quality. Now multiply that by a million for a film with complicated effects and the visual scale of Final Fantasy or Legend of the Guardians and you’re just beginning to imagine the amount of processing power and patience it takes. Not to mention the overheads.
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I really, really hope DW pulls another winner for Megamind just to prove the skeptics wrong. As much as I like Shrek Forever After with its touching storyline, it doesn’t hold a candle to How to Train Your Dragon. That said, though, the final Shrek was a step in the right direction, so hopefully Megamind keeps up that momentum.
Why?