Film review: Megamind

WORLD'S greatest supervillain is thrown for a loop by sudden change of circumstance. Slowly becomes world's softest semi-nice guy.

Megamind (Will Ferrell) is master of all he sees. Picture: Paramount

WORLD'S greatest supervillain is thrown for a loop by sudden change of circumstance. Slowly becomes world's softest semi-nice guy.

Mmmmmm. Didn't we just recently just drive down the very same 3D-animated street in Despicable Me?

Indeed so. But here's the thing about Megamind. Even if you look upon it as a repeating offender, you won't get tired of looking at it in a hurry.

There's barely a boring second in the entire picture. The all-star voice cast steer well clear of the hammy listen-to-me-isms of contemporary cartooning. The visuals pop. No joke is aimed too high, nor too low. Anyone of any age who needs a film to ward off the pre-Christmas crazies should consider Megamind the safest of bets.

Will Ferrell is the one talking up the title character, a downcast doer of evil who has just realised the full extent of his powers.

So why is Megamind feeling so empty? Well, now he has done away with his goody-goody rival Metro Man (Brad Pitt), there is no-one so right left to wrong.

With the aid of his robo-piranha sidekick Minion (funnily enough, that's also what the yabbering yellow workers in Despicable Me were called), Megamind genetically engineers a new nemesis, Titan (Jonah Hill).

It seems like a good idea at the time, until Megamind (blue of hue, and bulbous of head) holographically makes himself over to human form to romance a cutie he once kidnapped, Roxanne (Tina Fey).

While hardly the most original animated production of recent times - there's also a fair debt accrued to the likes of The Incredibles and Monsters Vs. Aliens - the fun spirit in play here, along with faultless production values, more than square the ledger.

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Megamind (PG)
3 stars
Director: Tom McGrath (Madagascar)
Starring: the voices of Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, David Cross