>why does the animation look worse for a direct to video than major motion picture?!?
>why does one line from the original possibly create a continuity era?!?
It's going to be mediocre, and if you still have some bizarre pure devotion to the underperforming original, don't watch...
Looks like shit.
The original was made in the 90s, its a callback to its CGI.
Looks like it was made the same year this was even has the same tone.
It's shit.
I'm someone who's been critical about Megamind to the point I was surprised to find out it had a fandom at all.
The fandom coasted by it's self for so long and would over hype the frick out of the film. It's got it's good points but the art style and the voice acting wasn't enough to sell the movie as a whole. It's the theater kids coming out story in a way.
Now that they got what they wanted, a continuation of their favorite guy, they hate that all their head canons now just got thrown out the window. Happens every time.
It's shit. If your multimillion dollar corporation can't make something better animated than tadc in 2024, don't bother.
I still remember when were being annoying as frick calling Megamind an "underrated masterpiece" a few years ago when it started to get popular again because of memes.
Dreamworks fans are a sub-human species.
>I'm someone who's been critical about Megamind to the point I was surprised to find out it had a fandom at all.
Forgettable plot with a 2smart4u moment that "blew" the minds of pseudo-intellectual youtubers.
I still don't understand why a solid concept - what if villain is the protagonist in a family-friendly "satire" of funny comic books (in an era of post-modernist gritty comic book films) - was replaced with a handsome geek loves girl and ugly idiot is the villain plot.
The actual initial plot of "You were born to be rich and successful was stolen from you by some dumb jock" really died hard and then became confusing when they not only made out the jock to be a good guy but pathetic at the same time.
Bob.
Black Power.
It looks bad, but I find it funny that millennials and zoomers just now are finding out mediocre Dreamworks spin-off shows exist. Or more baffingly, defend the shitty Kung Fu Panda series from Nick.
>defend the shitty Kung Fu Panda series from Nick.
The first couple seasons were decent and that series was definitely way better than any of the other series.
The spin-off shows and direct-to-streaming sequels often look worse than the movies, but not significantly enough to be jarring. This megamind thing looks fricking awful in a way that only things made by 3rd world slophouse studios look like for reasons that no one can discern. Obviously it's not going to have a feature length film budget, but why the frick does nothing about it look even remotely competent?
what’s insulting about this is that this is the only other megamind media we’ve gotten. kung fu panda and puss in boots have multiple movies so you can easily ignore their mediocre tv shows.
Button of Doom was okay.
Most don't even remember the Puss and Boots Netflixverse specials exist.
The Kung Fu Panda series had mediocre writing, but it looked pretty good.
It’s weird that theyre doing it NOW and that they started with a feature length special
Why even make it of you're not going to give it the resources it needs to succeed? Why try to make a cheap kids show out of a cult classic from over a decade ago that's mainly known for the insane amount of effort put into it? Why ship it out to some third world animation sweatshop but then still advertise it like it's some big blockbuster release? Why have the promotional material done by someone so obviously disinterested/disgruntled they put the obviously low quality models front and center in all the ads?
Why does this exist?
Imagine how great the industry would be if passionate autists who actually knew what they were doing were in charge
money laundering.
even shitty kids shows have big enough budgets to just grind the creatives and they keep whats left. while you learn new software and keep your skills sharp these people don't have to, they just stick together and cover each other's ass.
very relevant to the current events unfolding globally.
>furries in fish suits
>french joker
>the thing mixed with human torch
>storm but in a shitty outfit
>some chaos knight in the wrong fricking movie
this is actually awful holy shit
I thought you were exaggerating, but it's worse than what you describe.
That’s just Bomb Voyage
why are you on reddit?
wait, are those a trio of sewer israelites on the left?
Out of all the possible other villains shown in the original art book why did only lady Doppler make it into the show? I know Psychodelic was too much for a kids show. (Ppg would have the balls) but where’s Destructionworker? Or Horflash? All better design choices. And lady Doppler outfit was always bad they should have fixed it!
Megamind is a outcast he shouldn’t have been previously part of a team.
I especially hate a the child sidekick character.
Great. People overreacting AGAIN for the sake of it.
Bump
wasn't this thread already made?
why are you still on reddit?
why are you such a homosexual?
>why are you not eating your slop!?
I can't speak for everyone, but in my case it's because I didn't want a continuation.
I liked the movie, it wasn't a masterpiece, but it was fun. It was perfectly fine as a standalone thing. He was a villain, but he doesn't want to be a villain, he becomes a good guy and gets a gf, the end.
Wreck it Ralph did it better
WiR also made a shitty sequel.
I feel like one of the people who monkey paw'ed Megamind because, while I was happy with the stand-alone movie and the short film, I did wanted to know more about the world and other super powered characters.
This Syndrome quote is ironically accurate. Had this been made right after Megamind was made, there is a good chance it would have been... tolerable, at least.
Really, this applies to a lot of stuff lately. Companies are trying to cash in on nostalgia from a couple decades ago, but they are doing it with SEQUELS instead of reboots for some reason so they all end up in this weird in-between space where it is kids media designed to appeal to the adults instead of kids. Not every IP you own stays valuable, guys. Sometimes things miss their window and should stay dead.
Like, whats next? WALLE 2 in 2027?
>Megamind released almost 15 years ago
Holy frick, what scares me more is that 2010 felt like yesterday.
I honestly don't know why my generation even worships Megamind so much, it's like a cult. I guess American zoomers were really fricking blown away by the idea of a cartoon about a villain protagonist, even if he's not really that much of a villain.
I get that this is an American cartoon board and all but I always find it weird when people tried to make more of these celebrity voice cartoons than they actually were. Maybe if you actively avoided watching any anime or TV cartoons that weren't the main ones pushed the concept of characters with relationship drama and pathos is novel- but it all just felt really shallow.
>I honestly don't know why my generation
Yaaawn
It's being made in response to a cult fanbase of now young adults with nostalgia for it, but they're producing it like any of their throw away current movie cash-ins aimed at 3-7 year olds, and on a platform few people even have.
It's not worth seething at it but it's a funny move to waste money on producing a series in response to a demand, only to sell it to a completely different audience.
This,
It's been a decade over the original movie so modern kiddies might not immediately know the original movie exists (unlike the case with most DreamWorks TV spinoffs). Also, I'm pretty sure there isn't a notably large portion of preteens who are really into Megamind and desperately want to see more of it, it's mostly teens and young adults who really clamored for more Megamind.
The only way I could see not really trying to target the cult fan base is maybe the expectation that these projects will increase viewership in the OG movie by curious kiddies and parents (the new movie and show are clearly marketed as sequels).
It looks lazier animation-wise compared to the first movie. I think the biggest tell that this is a job done cheap is that poster. It really doesn't look good.
Go Wild
Strongest vs Strongest.
ENTER
>THESE GUYS ARE RELENTLESS MINION, How come I didn't have them cover for me back when I was a villain?
>You tried sir, but backed out when it came to the bris.
Who is he up against?
How long will he last?
He can take them. He loses only to Donbrothers
why would he lose to the donbrothers
A crossover would be nice
Forgot pic
>Megamind vs the Incredibles
Would be interesting, considering they are the Pixar/Dreamworks Subversive Superhero movies
Mmmmmm!
Im surprised no one noticed the "another black person with lightning power"? Step up your game, folks.
There can be only ONE large headed hunk on this planet, Megachump.
>seething
morons and Trolls on Cinemaphile will use this verb to pretend that all criticism is invalid.
Shouldve revived Over the hedge instead. It would be really extra hard to frick up visuals or story telling wise. Og was 2006 so it wont be such a jarring difference in look or animation. It has a fandom just like megamind and probably would've been more grateful and receptive to anything new put out. Its bad guys but better and made a lot more $ than bad guys or megamind plus toy, game, book and apparel sales. It even got merch in japan. Plus it has anthros so furries would be supporting it. It's a lot better movie than megamind and had more room and different directions for expansion. The comics are still going and the creator really wants to revive it. The creator is serious about the characters and would've kept the writing on the rails. They even have video games they can pull shit from for a sequel or tv show. We'll have it in the next 10 years with how ai is going and now that dreamworks is paying millions to develop ai. But boy does it make me wish that they went bankrupt for ignoring oth since 2006 and putting out shit like home, turbo, orion, ruby, trolls, croods and boss baby instead.
The point of the movie was that it's a deconstruction of the regular superhero formula, now they just pump out the schlock the original deconstructed.
Okay, WHY is it always the combo black and electric powers? There has to be a reason. What aren't we seeing?
Yellow pairs well with black
For Storm her thing is weather and shocking people is way easier than starting a wildfire and hoping it works out.
As for Black Lighting and Vulcan it was a copyright thing they're technically supposed to be the same character originally.
Someone once told me it all started with a legal dispute over Black Lightning so a ripoff of him was made and so on and so forth and eventually it just became instinctual.
>Black = Crime = Electric Chair
There you go
>no you can't question the quality of this cartoon/translation/game/design because... uh... you just can't okay? think about the poor artists who worked on that
>is that a shitty trailer for a children's movie???? I SUDDENLY HAVE STANDARDS THIS SUCKS
The Doom Syndicate probably reminds them of The Vicious Six from its "Inferior" (Minions: The Rise of Gru)
Megamind was a very good movie. Not a "masterpiece" but very good.
This... is shit. Shit animation, shit design, shit writing, shit tropes, shit music, shit voice acting.
When you take something good and turn it into shit, people dislike it.
>But the original underperformed!
Not the only very good movie to underperform.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Why do people use movies underperforming to say they're bad?
What this! I'm going to not watch the trailer, not watch the show, then forget it ever existed.
The kid is just always smiling.
Why is he so snobby now?
I want you to go on 0:35 - 0:38, then go to 1:12 - 1:14. Trust me.
>black character with lightning powers
tale as old as time
Should have been 2D, Maybe animated by Flying Bark
Look, if he kisses Roxanne on the lips a few times I'll still hate it, but at least it will give me something to be happy about.
Megamind kills the Suicide Squad
No milly?
oh my!
because media fans ask their ass out for something but when it cames out they only need a trailer to know its going to be utter shit, and move one in the next massive popular request
>hug a guy who decorates his attire with spikes
Roxanne was the best part of the movie
She could be the worst part of the series depending how they portray her.
I love her giant head
>Antz
>Shrek
>Shrek 2
>Madagascar
>Shrek the Third
>Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
>Megamind
It was the fourth non sequel movie made by PDI (although they did contribute to the movies made by the Glendale studio)
>Toy Story proved you could prey on nostalgia with sequels to get easy bonus points to sequels by factoring in how the audience that originally watched them as grown up
>Could have set Megamind 2 10-15 years later and make it about the burnout with the Superhero genre that is currently going on among these kids
>Instead make it take place right after the first with the most bog standard story possible
They had it so easy and they still flopped it
>burnout with the Superhero genre
I can handle subpart visuals, but why do the voice performances have to be bad? Why does the comedic timing have to suck? Megamind was not some high IQ comedy. It doesn't take veteran writers to do Freakazoid or The Tick kind of humor. Some good jokes with good deliveries would make it worth watching.
Instead, it's like they had fricking placeholder voices and forgot to get actual VAs. I don't get it.
I think a lot of that comes from how they took the joke of Megamind not knowing how words are pronounced because he's only read them and ran it into the ground by putting it all over the trailer.
>I liked the movie, it wasn't a masterpiece, but it was fun
There are some dudes out there that are autistically obsessed with the movie and do consider it a masterpiece.
This looks sub-Back at the Barnyard tier but nothing tremendously terrible. I'd not personally watch it but I can see someone under certain condtions.
Why would they do the shit concept of other villains not noticing Megamind reformed instead of the more obvious plotline of them all thinking it's a scam he's pulling and his naturally maniacal personality just convincing them even more of it.
>them all thinking it's a scam he's pulling
That sounds way more fun.
What if they are pretending they don't know cause he's clearly pulling a scam and are waiting for the other shoe to drop?
I can already tell that damn kid is going to have one of those cheesy emotional scenes where she'll tell Megamind she doesn't have parents and he'll relate because his are dead, and then they'll probably adopt her and she'll be saving the day way more than the guy who's name is the damn title.
Must be great being you
Why didn't they just bring back the villains from the videogame?
Why did they make Megamind sound like if he was Jack Horner but gay?