Saw Megamind, the animated super-hero film about the super-villain. It was set against Despicable Me and amidst a whole bunch of super-hero deconstructions (Kick Ass, Super) This film focuses on the titular Megamind who is battling the smarmy Superman-alike, Metro Man. After a particularly lucky break, Megamind actually kills Metro Man and must now live in the existential void that achieving his life's ambition brings. The film stars Will Farrell and is full of lame, dialogue-driven humor which is ace improvisation but kind of limp scripting.
The film was okay. It was mostly forgettable with a few queasy emotional scenes thrown in to remind the viewer of Pixar but, of course, without any of their earned sentiment. The film fails I think because it's simultaneously trying to be genuinely sincere and also a snide in-joke about super heroes. I think it would have been much better if it had abandoned all pretense of moral or emotion and gone straight for dark satire. That would have made me happier anyway.
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