After 14 long years, DreamWorks has FINALLY given us a sequel to their legendary masterpiece, Megamind! You guys might have not known that DreamWorks made a sequel to Megamind because for whatever reason, whenever I go to google and type in Megamind 2, the only thing that comes up is that silly Megamind: The Button of Doom short! But rest assured, I’m here to report that Megamind 2 does in fact exist and it’s available on Peacock now for everyone to see!
Sure, Megamind wasn’t a movie that demanded a sequel because everything was resolved perfectly at the end of the movie and these kind of subversive movies really only work one time but since everything has to have a sequel nowadays, we now have Megamind Vs The Doom Syndicate! Or as just about everyone will refer to it as strictly Megamind 2 because they will likely not even remember who the Doom Syndicate even are by the time the credits roll.
A lot of animated sequels tend to suck nowadays such as Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse! However, every once in a while DreamWorks is able to deliver great Part Twos when it counts the most. Sure, sequels such as Shrek 2, Madagascar 2, Kung Fu Panda 2, How To Train Your Dragon 2, and Puss in Boots 2 were nothing to write home about but sequels such as The Croods: A New Age, Trolls: World Tour, The Boss Baby: Family Business, and ESPECIALLY Spirit: Untamed were all SPECTACULAR follow-ups to their already SPECTACULAR original counterparts! And now with Megamind 2: Vs Who Gives A Crud, I don’t think it would be crazy to consider DreamWorks to be one of the better animation studios out there when it comes to delivering absolutely banger sequels where other studios tend to fall flat. Take notes, Disney!
I would explain the full plot in details but really, all you have to do is just google the plot of the first movie and you basically get the same thing nearly beat for beat. You have Megamind coming to terms into wanting to be a supervillain again until he suddenly doesn’t! You have him breaking up and getting back together with his best pal Minion (Or as he’s now called Chum!) for absolutely NO REASON at all! You have breaking up and getting back together with his kinda, sort-of girlfriend Roxanne Ritchi because every superhero movie needs one of those! You have new bad guys (and one girl) that used to be best buddies with Megamind who are present in Metro City because of a problem that Megamind unwillingly caused! Heck, you even have a seen where Megamind feels defeated and retires from being a superhero while growing a long, gross depression beard, just like with Metro Man in the first movie! Just take the plot of the first movie and thrown in some more poop and fart jokes and you basically got the same movie all over again!
Never mind the fact that Megamind questioning his allegiance to being a hero and breaking up with his best friend yet again goes against his character development in the first one! Never mind the fact that these new bad guys who happened to once be friends with Megamind were never even established in the movie! Never mind the fact we have a new girl added here who just so happened to be insanely popular on social media overnight! And never mind even the fact that this is suppose to take place just two days after the original when it feels more like it takes place at least a decade plus after it! The plot of Megamind 2 is a stroke of art! It’s as if you took away every fun subversive twist that the first one had and went exactly the predictable, conventional route that it was mocking.
Big props have to be given to Alan Schoolcraft and Brent Simmon, the writing duo from the first movie who return once again! You have to applaud them for being patience and not waiting to rush out a sequel just two days after the first one came out. They knew it would take time and development for a Megamind 2 to work in the slightest. Thankfully, because of the writers’ strike and DreamWorks not giving them a proper budget, they are able to make a Megamind sequel that’s on par with those straight-to-VHS Disney sequels and somehow make it even worse than that! I sure hope they return for Megamind 3 when that comes out in the year 2038!
The main selling point here is The Doom Syndicate! They are just about the most one-note, generic, and stereotypical baddies you have ever seen! They are as ever bit as funny or entertaining as an episode of Velma! They are so annoying and obnoxious that you will root for Megamind to kill them within the first ten minutes they are onscreen so they would just go away! If that’s not the sign of truly great villains that you want the hero to beat them so badly so they would disappear forever, then I don’t know what is!
The animation is so glaring and distracting that it all feels too real! I lost track of the number of animation errors, inconsistent character movement, and the overall defiance of logic with the animated style of this movie. This movie looks about on part with that Megamind game that came out on the Nintendo DS! It’s to know that DreamWorks have been taking good care of their animators to make sure their highly-anticipated sequel looks as magical as any movie that they have ever made! Take that Sony and Across the Spider-Verse!
We also have to tell about the STELLAR voice cast! Yeah, it’s a shame they couldn’t get Will Ferrell or Tina Fey back likely because they read the script to this mega-rocity and went “nah, fam!” but we have the perfect replacements for them! We have Keith Ferguson, who is able to copy Will Ferrell just as much as he was able to copy Owen Wilson in those Cars Mater short things, even if his voice is annoyingly more high pitched and doesn’t sound like Megamind whatsoever! We also have Laura Post, who is able to copy Tina Fey about as well as………..Tina Fey I guess!
Let’s also not forget Tony Hale, Forky from Toy Story 4, playing a character named Mr. Donut (I’m not even kidding!) Or director Eric Fogel who plays a robot named Polly 227 (Again, not even kidding!). Or Roger Craig Smith, A.K.A. Sonic the Hedgehog, as the cowardly Mayor who steals the show every two seconds he gets! And even Adam Lambert is in this movie as…..some villain! It’s nice to see DreamWorks get all of these well known celebrity voice actors! As we all know, only the greatest movies out there could have this many celebrities for one feature film!
I would say more about Megamind 2 but I don’t want to spoil all the fun and excitement for you all! I can happily say that Megamind 2 lives up to the hype and was certainly worth the 14-year long wait!
The story is lazy, derivative and disregards the original movie at every turn, the animation is so ugly and unfinished that it will make your eyes bleed, the time frame between both movies makes no sense whatsoever, the humor is absolute liquid shit, the voice actors are completely miscast in their roles, and the Doom Syndicate are some of the worst and most unmemorable villains in recent memory! Oh, and that little girl that’s in the movie might be the most pointless side character I’ve seen in any movie!
Don’t listen to these haters who must have given high praise to Puss in Boots: The Last Wish or that furry’s wet dream, The Bad Guys! THIS is a true legacy sequel that delivers when it needs to! Maybe now, people will start giving DreamWorks the credit they deserve and not just pure scorn for their missteps. Even so, great sequels to their non well-known franchises have already been made and Megamind vs who gives a crud! joins the list of those with grace!
Oh, and be sure to check out that Megamind TV series! It’s just ever bit as amazing and cringe as this movie is!
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