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88Megamind has presentation in spades. But it also has something even rarer than that. It's got heart.
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83Megamind's Kryptonite is a common weakness for any comedy so fast out of the blocks: It simply runs out of surprises.
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83There's nothing wrong with animation aimed at adults, but this may be the first kids' movie that throws fewer bones to its supposed intended viewers than to their parents.
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83Too goofy-surreal to pack a lot of emotional punch, but it's antically light on its feet, with 3-D images that have a lustrous, gizmo-mad sci-fi clarity.
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80In a family market that's been woefully weak of late, Megamind should not only rescue Metro City but the box office, too.
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80Visually Megamind is immaculately sleek and gracefully enhanced by 3-D. The score by Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe is refreshingly subtle for an action comedy.
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75Megamind has momentum and dazzle.
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75Megamind, it turns out, is a villain to root for.
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75Megamind is largely what one might expect from an animated movie featuring a number of notable comedians in voice roles: an amusing diversion.
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75Megamind is an amusing family entertainment and gains some energy from clever dialogue and the fun Will Ferrell has with his character.
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75The bliss of Megamind is the way it pursues solutions for tired problems.
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70Megamind is snappy good fun.
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70The kiddie set can chortle at Megamind's slapstick and its goofy one-upmanship while adults get a kick out of all the smart spatial tricks that highlight the 3-D effects.
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70More impressive than the multi-dimensions is Megamind's minimalist, modernist look. It creates a crispness that feels more contemporary than retro, which not only is very aesthetically pleasing but makes it easier to savor the film's many sight gags.
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70Handsome and generally amusing adventure.
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67Megamind gets existential, but only in blips, and while it is never anything less than vibrant and exceedingly clever, it is also a rather slight thing for such mega-sized proportions.
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67No doubt some of it is charming enough to induce giggles in its preteen target audience.
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65Tries too hard and ultimately achieves less. It's undone by its own inferiority complex.
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63Director Tom McGrath keeps the action spinning and trips lightly over the bummer spectacle of watching a bad boy go good.
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63The voice casting is on the money and these funny people - and I'm including Pitt, who plays this sort of self-mocking Adonis well, even in animated form - make this cute comedy come off.
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63Moderately funny though immoderately derivative.
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Dec 15, 201060Like his plans, Megamind verges on greatness but has flaws. But it's fun, energetic and at times dazzling. Expect a stronger sequel - unlikely to be 'darker and grittier', though.
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60This is Ferrell's movie, meaning some inspired laughs sandwiched between annoying bits that stretch on well past their usefulness.
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60Mostly, the jokes and the recurrent attempts to tweak the superhero genre serve as a reminder that somebody else has already done it better. Sure, Megamind is pretty good. But why settle for less when you the best is already available on DVD?
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60In ingenuity and charm, this DreamWorks offering isn't up there with "Kung Fu Panda," which remains the sharpest, fullest film from the studio. You may get the feeling that Megamind was made for, and possibly by, really smart six-year-olds. Nothing wrong with that; audiences of all ages can be tickled by the higher form of preadolescent humor.
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50Has some funny moments, silly mispronunciations and comical socio-political references. But it suffers from being the second animated movie this year to feature a dastardly villain for a hero.
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50The plot is rich, the execution poor.
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50Megamind falls flat.
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50A dispiriting return to the tired, star-driven, pop-culture-ridden formula that DreamWorks Animation ran into the ground before its best feature in years, this spring's "How to Train Your Dragon."
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50Comes off as a derivative wisecracking machine rather than a feat of sustained imagination.
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40This routine animated feature is a perfectly fine thing to waste.
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40Plays out like a clunky, not-so-incredible "Incredibles," or a more-despicable "Despicable Me."
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Dec 15, 201040If nothing else, I found my son's Kryptonite: boring superhero rip-offs voiced by check-cashing actors. At least Steve Carell used an accent.