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By Sandra Olmsted<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n While trading on reference and parodies of numerous superhero films, Megamind director Tom McGrath and screenwriters Alan J. Schoolcraft and Brent Simon consider the effects of nurture on the nature of human and superhuman beings in this new film from Dreamworks Animation. The filmmakers also consider the effects of bullying; fortunately, the film doesn\u2019t get preachy and handles it all with humor.<\/span><\/p>\n In a homage to Superman, two baby boys are placed in space pods to escape from dying planets, but the two pods bounce off each as they travel to earth, and thus begins a great rivalry.\u00a0 The blue baby, who will become the supervillian Megamind, is ricocheted out of this chance at an upper class life when the escape pod of the more humanoid and much more handsome baby, destined to become Metro Man, knocks Megamind\u2019s pod out of the way.\u00a0 By grade school, Megamind is the permanent outcast, and Metro Man the perpetual hero.<\/p>\n Consequently, Megamind decides to embrace evil since he\u2019s only good at being bad.\u00a0 With the help of Minion, the fishlike creature sent along with him to earth and charged with protecting him, Megamind embarks on a career of crime, which primarily include threatening Metro City, trying to kill Metro Man, and kidnapping Roxanne Ritchi, the reporter who is Metro Man\u2019s love interest but also the girl of Megamind\u2019s own dreams.<\/p>\n Although all his plots to get even with Metro Man fail, Megamind pursues his quest until one day he succeeds in killing Metro Man.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Megamind\u2019s joy is short lived because he discovers his life is meaningless without the other by which he defines himself.\u00a0 Then, in a stroke of brilliance, Megamind decides to create another superhero to be his nemesis by infusing someone with Metro Man\u2019s DNA.<\/p>\n However, like most of his plans, this one is seriously flawed and\/or doomed, and Metro Man\u2019s DNA gets infused into the wrong subject, namely Roxanne\u2019s nerdy cameraman, who doesn\u2019t have the nurture in his past to support a superhero nature.\u00a0 Thus, Titan is created, and Megamind happily plans a future of big battle where he is not too badly beaten.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Titan doesn\u2019t have it in himself to be a good guy despite Megamind\u2019s best efforts to train him.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Megamind has found a way to woo Roxanne himself, or rather in the guise of someone else; however, Titan also desires Roxanne.\u00a0 While Titan\u2019s human attempts to woo Roxanne were childlike and inept to the point of painful, his superhuman attempts are dangerous and diabolical, which puts Megamind, the resident supervillian, in the uncomfortable position of rescuing the girl.<\/p>\n McGrath\u2019s film also looks at how those who are not as handsome, talented, or charismatic cope with disappointment, rejection, and ill treatment, sometimes in the form of bullying and sometimes honest reaction.\u00a0 However, the point is clearly made that how people are treated affects how they behave and who they become and that everyone should look beyond the exterior to find the person beneath.<\/p>\n The voice performances by Will Ferrell as Megamind, Brad Pitt as Metro Man, Tina Fey as Roxanne, Jonah Hill as Tighten, and David Cross as Minion, the amusing comic relief sidekick, are perfectly understated.\u00a0 The filmmakers do an excellent job of using the 3D technology as film language rather than a gimmick, and from that standpoint, it is worth the small difference in ticket prices to see Megamind in 3D.\u00a0 Megamind, a Paramount Pictures release, is rated PG for action and some language, runs 96 minutes, and opens Nov. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Sandra Olmsted While trading on reference and parodies of numerous superhero films, Megamind director Tom McGrath and screenwriters Alan J. 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