MegaMind_________________________________________________________________

MegaMind
2010 Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey
PG

Fantastic animated film!  Very funny.  Constantly funny in fact.  I was laughing so hard at some of the fast and furious humor, that I had to keep interrupting the last laugh with the newest one.  But one thing troubled me.  I was laughing and my kids mostly were not.  I mean there is no way that they were getting the jokes.  They were caught up in the action and the characters, and being kids, all goo-eyed at the huge figures on the screen.  They were taking so much of it seriously.  That’s just kids for you now isn’t it?  They are wonderfully and seriously made.

But there is no way they were going to get the humor of our villain changing into a mock character of Ed Kennedy, lisping away his directives, or the other tie-ins to characters past.  This is expert filmmaking, however.  Everyone knows that us adults are going with our kids to see these movies.  Like Toy Story 3, there was so much for us adults to be delighted with, mixed masterfully with the action and adventure.  It’s a no-lose scenario.

What I found most delightful about MegaMind was the consistent playing against type and the story twists that also went against convention, making it a truly amazing and original story that was fun to follow, and almost always unexpected.  This fairly short feature film is filled constantly with non-stop action and twists aplenty.  A bonus for us all is the light ending that is uplifting and fun.  Good clean fun.

5 stars

Agitatus