Monday 3 January 2011

Megamind

If you find yourself at your local cinema and having to choose between TRON: Legacy and Megamind then go see Megamind.

Took the boys to see Megamind as a holiday treat today, and we all thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a CGI animated comedy, sending up the superman films, from an evil villain's point of view, and explored the relationship between villain, hero, damsel in distress and villain's sidekick.

The humour was working on several levels, as all good family films should. As with all good comedies it was tinged with a little sadness and home truths, which made the humour all the funnier when it came.

The soundtrack was right up my street. Appropriate use of 2 AC/DC tracks (as was done in Iron Man 2). What bad guy shouldn't make an entrance to "Highway to Hell" and return to "Back in Black"? Ozzy Ozbourne's "Crazy Train" featured and the finale was to the tune of Guns 'n Roses "Welcome to the Jungle".
Don't get me wrong though, it's not all Heavy Metal - the last song in the film was Michael Jackson's "Bad".

Great film - go see it for yourself.

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