Megamind (Will Ferrell) is a super-intelligent alien who—at the age of eight days old—is sent to Earth by his parents as his home planet is destroyed by a black hole. However, he lands in The Prison for the Criminally Gifted at Metro City, thanks to another infant alien similarly sent from a different planet who eventually becomes a superhero known as Metro Man (Brad Pitt), defender of the fictional Metro City. As a result, Megamind is raised as a social deviant, who is neglected for his destructive intellect, with his Piranha-like sidekick Minion (David Cross) as his only friend. Realizing that he is only gifted in causing trouble, and jealous of all of the attention young Metro Man receives, Megamind becomes a supervillain to rival Metro Man, though he is thwarted on a regular basis.
During one of his many attempts to defeat Metro Man, Megamind kidnaps news reporter Roxanne Ritchi (Tina Fey) and uses her as bait to lure Metro Man into the city observatory where Megamind intends to kill him with a death ray. The plan appears flawed enough for Metro Man to escape, but he proclaims that the inside of the observatory is lined with copper, which he says drains his power. Metro Man is then seemingly killed by the death ray. Megamind is initially thrilled that he has defeated his archenemy, and he proceeds to live the criminal dream life, taking over town hall and plundering the city. His happiness more of an assumption than a reality, he soon grows depressed over the fact that without someone to fight, his life as a supervillain no longer has any purpose.
Megamind talks with Roxanne while disguised as a museum curator named Bernard and is inspired to create a new superhero to fight using a serum of Metro Man's DNA. Hoping to uncover any evil plans Megamind has for the city, Roxanne breaks into Megamind's lair and fights with him over a syringe gun containing the serum, which is accidentally fired and injected into Roxanne's cameraman Hal Stewart (Jonah Hill). Megamind manipulates Hal into becoming a superhero named Tighten, but at the same time falls in love with Roxanne and begins dating her while disguised as Bernard. Tighten attempts to use his powers to woo Roxanne, but is quickly spurned and grows jealous of the Bernard-disguised Megamind. Megamind soon begins having second thoughts about being a villain, finding more enjoyment pursuing a relationship with Roxanne. Minion discovers the relationship, quarrels with Megamind over its appropriateness to his supervillain identity, and their friendship is apparently lost.
After Roxanne kisses "Bernard" on a date, Megamind's identity is accidentally exposed when Roxanne unintentionally deactivates his holowatch, causing Roxanne to reject him as she is unable to reconcile his deeds with his real, more empathetic temperament. Heartbroken, Megamind follows through with his plan to fight Tighten. By this time, Tighten has decided he would rather be a supervillain. Hal is socially awkward, and it is assumed he has lived a life of mediocrity. Resentful of life and perceived apathy, Hal as Tighten expresses his psychology by stealing money and saying it is too much hard work to be a hero. Disgusted, Megamind provokes Tighten by revealing he is both Bernard and the "space dad" persona he used to deceive Hal. The two clash, and Megamind is defeated according to his own wishes. Unlike Metro Man, Tighten has no qualms with outright killing Megamind, and Megamind is forced to flee for his life. With nobody to stop him, Tighten begins wreaking havoc in Metro City.
Megamind attacks Tighten with a copper sphere, but with no effect on his powers. Worried about this inconsistency, Megamind convinces Roxanne to search for clues about his weaknesses in Metro Man's old hideout. There they discovered that Metro Man is still alive and learn that he faked his death (and his weakness to copper) so that he could retire from being a superhero -- having realised that he had lived his entire life without ever actually making a choice about his history -- and live his true passion: music. Megamind and Roxanne try to persuade Metro Man to defeat Tighten, but he refuses. Roxanne prompts Megamind to fight, but he does not have the will, and instead turns himself in to his regularly attended prison. When Tighten kidnaps Roxanne, however, Megamind is broken out of prison by Minion and goes to save her. Megamind defeats Tighten by draining Metro Man's DNA from his body, stripping him of his powers, and Hal ends up in Megamind's former prison cell while Megamind is embraced by Metro City as its new defender. Roxanne accepts Megamind and he "gets the girl," having proved himself a true hero. Megamind decides he is deeply satisfied with his new role as the hero and Roxanne's beau, as a disguised Metro Man silently congratulates him.
A post-credits scene shows Minion doing the laundry, only for Bernard -- who was "de-hydrated" by one of Megamind's weapons and turned into a small cube -- to pop out of the washing machine claiming that this was the worst day of his life; Minion then responds and whacks him with a forget-me-stick.
0 comments:
Post a Comment