Despite receiving positive reaction, the movie only grossed $321 million dollars worldwide at the box office, and is the lowest grossing CGI movie by Dreamworks Animation, making it a box-office bomb.
Megamind premiered in Russia on October 28, 2010, and was released in the United States on November 5, 2010. It garnered generally positive reviews from critics and it grossed $321.9 million worldwide on a $130 million budget.
The Doom Syndicate acted as a sequel as well as a pilot for Peacock's Megamind Rules! TV show. However, fans of the iconic film were not happy with the resulting product, with the film scoring a lousy 0%. The sequel has been in the making for over ten years and has infuriated fans as their time has been wasted.
For the second weekend in a row, DreamWorks Animation's Megamind finished atop the North American box office with a final take of $29.1 million. Its total gross now stands at $88.8 million.
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.
The comedian starred in the 2010 Megamind film, but this time, the new movie will have Keith Ferguson voicing his role. In part, some of their arguments came down to Ferrell's availability and voiceover experience.
Megamind featured great voice work from a star-studded cast that included Will Ferrell and Tina Fey, who helped make it a hilarious movie with many clever jokes that still hold up years later.
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.
Watch the trailer for Megamind. “We wanted them to be able to be partners and collaborate,” he says in an L.A. interview room. “I would say that 30 percent of the things that you see and hear are improvised in some way because not only are they great actors but they are great writers as well.
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.
Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate's trailer revealed Will Ferrell won't be reprising his role as Megamind, which is made even stranger by the actor's involvement in another animated sequel.
Metro Man was quick to realize that much like how his existence turned Megamind to villainy, Metro Man is locked in the eyes of the citizens as their hero, and he wanted to pursue his own interests in music.
Cast. Keith Ferguson as Megamind, a blue-skinned, humanoid alien supervillain-turned-superhero with a large cranium. Ferguson replaces Will Ferrell from the original film, in addition to previously voicing the character in the first film's tie-in video games.
Megamind is a satiric take on the Superman mythos, seen through the eyes of a supervillain who's part Lex Luthor, part Brainiac. Instead of a rocket ship bearing an infant survivor from a doomed planet to Earth, there are two ships from two planets.
There are three things people generally mention when referring to the movie's negatives: its strange plot, unnecessary character changes, and TV show-esque animation. The story takes place just a few days after the end of the first film, with Megamind being praised for his successful hero work.
Originally known as Minion, he was forced to change his name due to an in-universe cease and desist order from Mr. Minion's Meatsicles, a fast-food chain containing Chum's former name.
Hal Stewart, better known by his supervillain name Tighten (alternatively spelled Titan), is the main antagonist of DreamWorks' 21st full-length animated feature film Megamind, the first installment in the Megamind franchise.
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.
As you know, Dreamworks won Oscar at Best Animated Feature category only twice-in 2002(Shrek) and in 2006(Wallace and Gromit:The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
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