Billed as both a sequel to Megamind and the pilot for the television series Megamind Rules!, the film stars Keith Ferguson as Megamind, who clashes with his former supervillain team who plans to launch Metro City to the moon.
The Doom Syndicate (2024) is annoying and hard to watch with bad voice acting, bad 3D animation, bad action, and humor that is not written well; this movie will not make sense most of the time, there is a character I hated, and the movie was just poorly put together because of how certain characters will say lines of ...
Unlike the original Megamind movie, which was produced by DreamWorks Animation, the sequel was produced by its television arm, DreamWorks Animation Television. The sequel is also being panned by critics for its uneventful plot, which features only loosely defined threats and other narrative threads.
Megamind sequel universally hated, rated worst DreamWorks film ever produced. DreamWorks released Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate via Peacock on March 9, as a sequel to their popular film Megamind (2010). The initial trailers and teasers in February received harsh criticism.
Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate features an entirely different voice cast, with Will Ferrell replaced by Keith Ferguson. The creators of the film explained the recasting was due to scheduling and the ability to find fresh talent to expand the characters' relationships.
Megamind (originally voiced by Ferrell, now by Keith Ferguson) was a fiendish villain in Metrocity (which he continues to pronounce to rhyme with atrocity), ably assisted by a tech-savvy fish who lives inside a bowl on top of a robot body (originally David Cross, here Josh Brener).
Megamind (his birth name remains unknown) was born to his unnamedparents in his home planet. Eight days after Megamind's birth, the planet was destroyed by a black hole but he was able to survive thanks to his parents, who packed him in a escape pod with Minion and his binky and sent him off the planet.
Fans have two different views on this: the first is that Metro Man's super-speed somehow makes him age faster while the second is that he is simply nearing forty and his age is starting to show. If the latter is true, then Megamind would be in his late thirties as well, although a year younger.
The Will Ferrell-starring flick followed the titular supervillain in his attempt to create a more powerful hero to fight. While it was a critical success, it didn't perform so well at the box office, grossing only $322 million on a $130 million budget, one of DreamWorks' lowest-grossing films of the 2010s.
Metro Man is probably one of the most important figures in Megamind's entire life. Megamind dedicates his life to defeating Metro Man, because even when they were in grade school together, Metro Man had a privileged life and Megamind had to fight tooth and nail for everything he ever got.
Not long after, Megamind becomes consumed with depression because now that he finally destroyed his nemesis he feels he no longer has a purpose and he goes to the Metro Man museum to destroy the memory of Metro Man in an attempt to move on.
Known as "Minion" in the original film, his name is changed to "Ol' Chum" in the sequel film Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate and the television series Megamind Rules! This is said in-universe to be due to a copyright dispute with a creature involving a banana.
He is a parody of Lex Luthor and Brainiac while his "Space Dad" persona is a parody of both the physical resemblance of Jor-El as played by Marlon Brando in the 1978 film Superman and Brando's voice as Vito Corleone in The Godfather.
The film currently holds a resounding 7% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 2.3/10 on IMDB. “Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate” is plagued with several issues that hold the film back. The first, and most obvious, is the lackluster animation quality.
Megamind has blue skin with pink accents at his ears, cheeks and lips, suggesting he does have red blood, just like humans. In fact, aside from skin color and a few physical size differences, most notedly the large head, he appears to be just like any other human male.
Many agree that it would, after all, make sense for the Blue Defender to use his massive intellect in solving cases. (If you've read How Smart is Megamind, you already know that his IQ may be around 350.)
After realizing he must save Metro City from Titan's misdeeds, he realizes his parents were not supervillains and must now behave in a way they wanted to at the time of their saving him.
Metro Man is revealed to be alive and well, having retreated to his hideout that's covered by Megamind's former schoolhouse. He discovers their arrival and initially tries to sneak away, but they notice him. At their insistence, Metro Man explains why he quit.
He is a blue alien with a genius-level intellect and a desire for affection stemming from his dark past involving his heroic rival, Metro Man, making him become the villain that he is. Since then, Megamind and Metro Man would fight each other for the fate of Metro City, with the latter always winning.
The new movie follows Megamind defending Metro City from his former partners-in-crime, who want to destroy it. The streaming original features a different voice cast from the 2010 original, with Ferrell replaced by Keith Ferguson.
