Evil superhero?

Movie: Megamind (2010)

Genre: Animation, Comedy

Megamind starts off like any other usual superhero movie, where the hero saves the city. But, things take a different route when Megamind and his sidekick, Minion kidnap Roxanne Ritchi, Metro Man’s girlfriend and hold her hostage in a copper lined observatory.

When Metro Man arrives to rescue her, he realises that he has fallen into Megamind’s trap. His weakness for copper is revealed and is incinerated by Megamind’s death ray. Finally achieving his dream of controlling Metro City, Megamind and Minion celebrate and turn his city into their lair of evil.

However, he soon realises his power is worthless as he does not have an arch enemy to fight.

New plan

While wandering around a recently opened Metro Man museum, he runs into Roxanne. He is inspired by her belief that only another superhero can save Metro City. He decides to create one.

Megamind rushes to his lair and retrieves the serum with Metro Man’s DNA which he intends to inject into a proper candidate with his defuser gun. Plans go awry and Megamind injects the serum into Roxanne’s cameraman, Hal Stewart. Unable to revert his action, Megamind decides to make Hal his enemy and even trains him so that he becomes powerful enough to ‘defeat’ him.

But, Hal becomes uncontrollable and begins to destroy the city and the responsibility of saving Metro City falls on Megamind.

Will he be able to put his villainous ambitions aside and save the city? Will Hal have the last laugh?

Super spots

The film’s plot is based on what would have happened if Lex Luthor had defeated Superman.

Megamind mispronounces words 20 times throughout the film and the most evident of them all is ‘Metrocity’ which rhymes with ‘atrocity’.

After Megamind takes over the city, large posters saying ‘NO YOU CAN’T’ are seen throughout the city. These are similar to former President Barack Obama’s campaign posters which carried the slogan ‘YES WE CAN’.

A whole crew of animators were assigned solely to work on the movement of capes.

Metro Man’s appearance and costume were based on the popular rock star Elvis Presley.