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spoofmasterSo after deciding today that I needed to go see more movies, I up and went to the mall late this afternoon to see Megamind, it being the only movie that both sounded interesting and didn't have completely atrocious reviews. It reminded me a bit of Planet 51--irreverent, not always quite as clever as it thought it was, a bit predictable, but overall enjoyable. It's a bit late to be putting out a revisionist superhero movie now, though, and I think the backlash against this film (and my initial reluctance to see it) came from that as much as anything. There's also Despicable Me out this very same year with another super villain as its lead, which certainly doesn't help the case. I haven't seen Despicable Me myself, but my brother tells me it was a disappointment, which we both called the moment the expanded trailers came out and revealed that the movie had a Mr. Mom subplot (or just plain plot?) going on. Talk about predictable! All I can really say, though, is that Ben felt there were large, incomplete, and incompatible chunks of two or three movies there that had been mashed together, and I don't feel particularly inclined to rush out and get the DVD to double check that.
So at least Megamind has going for it that it's relatively coherent. I felt engaged with it from start to finish, the animation was really nice (though there were one or two character designs I didn't particularly care for), and it was funny. Familiar and predictable is not always bad. There's a reason tropes become tropes: they work. I wanted a movie to have a little fun with, and it delivered. Not one for the ages, but definitely one for the matinee.
Previews are looking...well, some of them are looking good. I had to cringe my way through the Yogi Bear one for the second time (I watched it online out of morbid curiosity a few weeks ago), but Tangled is looking fun (if a bit generic in animation--please, Disney, do not copy Dreamworks's style!), and I'm sort of on the fence about Gulliver's Travels. It's looking like they abridged it to just the part about his adventures in Lilliput, but that might not be a deal breaker.
Looks like Harry Potter's out tomorrow, but I really didn't feel like hanging around for a midnight showing all by myself (plus it's totally showing at the IMAX theater closer to my apartment). I'll have to try to figure out when I can go when I'm not too likely to run into a bunch of little kids whose parents didn't catch on that Harry Potter gets darker as it goes.
So at least Megamind has going for it that it's relatively coherent. I felt engaged with it from start to finish, the animation was really nice (though there were one or two character designs I didn't particularly care for), and it was funny. Familiar and predictable is not always bad. There's a reason tropes become tropes: they work. I wanted a movie to have a little fun with, and it delivered. Not one for the ages, but definitely one for the matinee.
Previews are looking...well, some of them are looking good. I had to cringe my way through the Yogi Bear one for the second time (I watched it online out of morbid curiosity a few weeks ago), but Tangled is looking fun (if a bit generic in animation--please, Disney, do not copy Dreamworks's style!), and I'm sort of on the fence about Gulliver's Travels. It's looking like they abridged it to just the part about his adventures in Lilliput, but that might not be a deal breaker.
Looks like Harry Potter's out tomorrow, but I really didn't feel like hanging around for a midnight showing all by myself (plus it's totally showing at the IMAX theater closer to my apartment). I'll have to try to figure out when I can go when I'm not too likely to run into a bunch of little kids whose parents didn't catch on that Harry Potter gets darker as it goes.
