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If anything is considered cinematic gold, it would be this movie. Megamind is grossly underrated, full of subverted themes and has a very touching message behind the story about acceptance and identity. It is a true masterpiece which is also full of humour at the same time. The jokes aren’t forced like some other movies, and the characterisation for each character was done beautifully and to the point. Roxanne Ritchie was not over-characterised into an unlikeable female lead (unlike some other characters from other movies that I know of), but neither is she under characterised or thrown to the side to do the protagonists’ biddings. Minion, Megamind’s friend and sidekick, was not thrown away and forgotten halfway into the film and then given a rushed ending. Instead he gets his own mini story arc, and the dynamic between Megamind and Minion is unlike any other villain/sidekick relationship (at least imo). Wayne Scott (Metro Man) was unforgettable. In a storyline where the villain goes good, the former good guy usually becomes bad. But Metro Man is just tired of playing something he never wanted to be and quit. While it’s admittedly selfish it’s understandable, and you cannot fault him for finally thinking for himself. Hal Stewart reflects upon the ‘nice’ guys that exists in society who thinks that they’re entitled to women and that women owe them a relationship because they’re ‘nice’. It’s a nice play of the usual ‘awkward guy that gets the girl’ trope, as he starts off as a sort of awkward guy who gets increasingly more creepy until he gains godlike powers. The morales in the film are surprisingly deep, talking about many things such as fate and free will, identity, entitlement, and nature versus nurture. The animation was amazing for 2010, but viewing this film nine years after its release, the animation style sticks to me as unique and as memorably as any animated film I watched in 2019. Truly, I’d wager this is the best dreamworks film to ever be released, and I highly recommend watching it for everything I had mentioned above and more. It’s probably also one of the best films released the decades and you should go for it.