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To call the animation of Megamind on the same level as Toy Story 3 wouldn't be correct.

However, this outsider role combined with his brilliance at inventions makes him the ideal adversary to Metro Man and the two have numerous battles, almost all of which end with Megamind in prison.

After a truly dazzling opening act it wanders through a mid-point malaise before gradually gaining momentum as Megamind recognizing how hollow and meaningless his existence is without a worthy adversary with which to spar decides to literally manufacture one.

Until one final confrontation when Megamind finally gets the upper hand.

So three cheers for Megamind for saving us from the dumbed - down, dopey, or straight - up boring animated children's films we've seen march in and out of theaters this year!

Maybe things would be different if Megamind didn't keep trying to destroy Metro City?

Restraint works well for Ferrell and Cross, but over-the-top fits Hill's crazed Tighten, the nemesis Megamind finds he needs.

And the ridiculously cute Roxanne, once again abducted by Megamind in his (up to now) fruitless effort to lure Metro Man to his doom, quips in mock weariness about her «frequent kidnapping card.»

As grown - ups they battle regularly and Metro Man always wins, keeping Metro City safe from MegaMind's plans for domination.

Will Megamind become green with envy, and will Roxy see red or turn blue?

The similarities between Megamind and The Incredibles are not all that great; the settings are about as alike as those of Antz and A Bug's Life and those of Shark Tale and Finding Nemo.

What if Megamind won?

So Megamind creates another from the unlikely DNA of Hal (Jonah Hill), a schlubby cameraman who takes to his new powers with disastrous effect.

Then Hal decides that actually he's the nasty one, forcing Megamind to seek truth and justice and his inner hero.

Using a syrupy, mid-Atlantic accent, Ferrell makes Megamind come off like a Fargo, N.D., dinner - theater actor who believes he should be doing Lear on Broadway.

However, when the hapless schemes of Megamind actually manage to kill Metro Man, the blue - skinned, bulbous - headed supervillian is left to live life without an equal.

Although Will Ferrell's effete voice for the evil Megamind gets tiresome, there are one or two funny tics (including his inability to pronounce even the simplest words).

In the film, super villain Megamind defeats his archrival Metro Man only to discover that winning isn't everything.

Over the years, he has tried to conquer Metro City in every imaginable way — Each attempt, a colossal failure thanks to the caped superhero known as «Metro Man,» until the day Megamind actually defeats him in the throes of one of his botched evil plans.

Once Megamind finally wins the upper hand he eventually finds he must battle a new, even more evil nemesis and in the process discovers the goodness within.

When the one of these lincRNA, called megamind, is reduced in zebrafish, the embryos have abnormally shaped heads and enlarged brain ventricles, as indicated by the arrow.

Realizing he's unfit for heroism, Megamind decides to embrace his darker side.

As a baby, bald blue alien Megamind was narrowly saved from his planet's destruction and sent to Earth.

Scrawny and socially awkward, his only friend a fishy sidekick in a robot suit (David Cross), Megamind comes to own his outsider status; Metro Man just as easily slides into the role life laid out for him.

Metro Man landed with a loving family and was raised to be a «good guy,» while Megamind landed in prison where the inmates taught him how to excel at evil.

Add Naomi Watts and Sean Penn in Doug Liman's Fair Game, Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams in Sundance Grand Jury entrant Blue Valentine, Gotham award nominee Winter's Bone and the animated adventure Megamind for the kids, and the more commercial - leaning contingent of entries is well and truly covered, with Welcome To The Rileys (starring James Gandolfini, Melissa Leo and Twilight «s Kristen Stewart) and Brit caper comedy Wild Target rounding out the mix.

When at a certain point in the movie Metro Man is accidentally vanquished and is presumed dead, Megamind faces an existential crisis.

Like Megamind's elaborate plans for domination, the film constructs one hell of a scheme but can't seem to pull it off.

Megamind Starring: Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, David Cross, and Brad Pitt Director: Tom McGrath Writers: Alan J. Schoolcraft & Brent Simons Studio: Dreamworks Rated PG Time: 96 minutes

When Titan's increasing nihilism imperils Metro City it's Megamind who emerges to defend it completing his unlikely journey from villain to hero to finally superhero.

This week, he talked about Megamind, Due Date and For Colored Girls

The problem, of course, is that no new thoughts are expressed by the terribly insubstantial script, so Megamind ends up being an impossibly inferior product, which has been mass - marketed and shoveled into theaters upon the backs of a bunch of A-list voices.

Apple has just released the second full - length trailer for the DreamWorks Animation movie MegaMind, which will be released in theaters nationwide on November 5.

If we were to continue to closely compare Megamind to a few of the other animated films that were released in 2010, it's not quite on par.

There are also borrowings from non-animated fare: When Megamind goes on an art museum - defacing rampage, it feels less like homage to Jack Nicholson's Joker than the pillaging of a rightly famous scene.

Here are two new character posters, showing off the lovably villainous Megamind and Minion: [HeyUGuys]

As the mythology dictates, Metro Man always wins, Megamind always loses, and this prompts the movie's big «what if?».

Looking over the records, the early November opening hasn't always been kind to the studio; in addition to the soft - performing Megamind and Bee Movie, that was also when Aardman mega-bomb Flushed Away debuted.

The two have settled into a routine of Megamind escaping from his maximum - security cell, capturing reporter Roxanne Ritchi (Tina Fey) and Metro Man thwarting his plans and locking him up again.

Now free to run rampant through the streets of MetroCity, Megamind realizes that mischievousness without a thwart is a whole lot less interesting... if not entirely impossible.

Their latest, Megamind looks like Dreamworks could add another win to their column.

The blue - skinned Megamind hits smack in prison.

Megamind hits stores today, Friday, February 25th, in three different versions: a standard single - disc DVD ($ 29.99 SRP), a two - disc Blu - ray + DVD combo Mega Double Pack ($ 49.99 SRP), and a Mega Double DVD Pack ($ 36.98 SRP).

Director Tom McGrath, who worked on the furiously antic Ren & Stimpy Show before helming the Madagascar hits, opens Megamind with its titular (anti--RRB- hero's narration, as we watch the blue - skinned brainiac with the billboard - size forehead plummeting to his death.

Lording over a defeated city turns out to be less fun than battling a formidable opponent, so Megamind creates one.

Dave: I finally saw Megamind and really enjoyed it.

But all that changes one day when Megamind accidentally kills Metro Man in the throes of one of his evil plans.

This release also has a brand new animated short featuring a new Megamind adventure.