Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate

If I could rate this a zero, I would. This movie is straight up trash. It was so bad to the point that they couldn't even get Will Ferrell or Brad Pitt in the movie. Instead they got new guys that sounded nothing like the original movie characters. The story was off, horrible set of screen writers, animation was low budget, and it was boring. We all know and love Megamind, but in this one I want to throw my remote at the TV. And also, this film was supposed to hit theaters. But since the budget was low, it's getting straight to peacock! This is unacceptable. The TV series is way better, but still not good. If Dream-works makes a new movie, I'm not bothering to see it. This ruined the franchise. Very disappointing.

This is such a shameless and blatant cash grab on a mature, intelligent film, to make it into a cheap knockoff aimed purely at children. Nothing more that that.

Lets start with the obvious: they got rid of all the original voice actors and replaced them with cheap nobodys, and downgraded the animation. Now to be fair, the animation quality isnt *that bad,* but its also worse than the first movie that came out over a decade ago so theres no excuse for this movements are all stiff and unnatural, the character models all look like theyre for a ps2 game, nad theres animaton errors EVERYWHERE. Not as often as there were in the trailer, but still a lot.

The writing is also childish and immature. Even if we forgive the movie for not haviong the budget to look as good as the original, thats still no excuse as to why the writing couldnt be as good as the original. Theres no emotional depth, no trope subversion, no maturity, none of the humor was funny in the slightest, it had NONE of the sharp writing that the original movie did. There was this really annoying thing they did where they made an excuse as to why they have to call minion "chum" for some reason. I genuinely dont know why, it didnt seem like a joke so anything. I kept waiting for them to say "ok this is stupid lets stop saying that" but they never did. The movie tries to make a point as to how megamind cant face the doom syntacate head on, because theres 4 of them and only one of him. But what the writers seem to have forgotten is that he literally defeated an evil superman in the last movie, and the doom syndacate is just a bunch of generic villain rejects that real life police would have absolutely no probelem aprehending. Also didnt the movie make a whole point of how megamind never backs down from a fight, even if he has no chance of actually winning? In this movie hes reduced to a whiny baby.

The movie was also super cringy and pandering. Theres a self-insert child character in it now (you know, for the kids.) and they constantlybring up social media and the internet in out-of-touch contexts. Also that doesnt make any sense because this movie is supposed to take place immediately after the first one, which came out in 2010. They also keep retconning stuff into the megamind universe that we know doesnt make any sense at all.

On its own merits, its decent at best. But when you compare it to the much superior first movie, its a major disappointment. This movie actually could have been good-ish if they expanded upon elements that they didnt fully explore in teh first movie, like megamind and roxxys relationship, or metro mans view of all of this. But unfortunately it was just a dumb kids movie.

Cheap animation, bad jokes, terrible dialogue... it's pretty clear why the voice cast didn't return. This is yet another lazy sequel/series that seems to exist purely to push content. I wish I hadn't wasted time watching this or the new series this setup, that started auto-playing as the credits were rolling. I know a lot of this stuff gets accused of being written by AI during the strikes, but I can see that actually happening here, with it looking so terrible because it was rushed out.

As of now, there are a few reviews here that are glowing. Don't believe them. One of them only reviewed this and the also awful series. 1 is a new user and this is their only review. Sus.

This movie was the worst garbage. The only movie I could compare it to is what's up (which for those who don't know what that is it's a terrible up rip off). Everyone moves so freaking weirdly in it and it's terrible. The jokes are not funny at all. One of the jokes was "I didn't know mayoring was gonna be so hard" that is the worst joke of all time. The villains didn't even make sense to be in the universe megamind takes place in because the reason megamind exists is because he's an alien from another planet, one of the villians an actual shadow and another one of the villians is a lava rock monster. This movie had a terrible plot and the voice acting is terrible and the animation is terrible and all of the lines/attempts at jokes are terrible and everything about the movie is terrible. 1.2/10.

This is NOT my Megamind and heres why.

They did not bring back any of the original cats from the first movie. The girl is super annoying, the very low quality animation. It is just a cheap waste of time for a sequel for this. The plot makes no sense whatsoever and just got completely scrapped from what we saw in the first movie. We NEVER saw Megamind having a crew in the first movie and the story is just dumb and out of place. The animation just sucks in general like there was no effort put into this.

If you want to watch Megamind that was perfect in every way. Watch the first movie, do not waste your time on The Doom Syndicate.