A lot of well regarded direct to video sequels didn't have the original cast. Are you gonna call the Kung Fu Panda TV series, which MANY people liked "bad", because it didn't have Jack Black in it? Your logic is just whiny and churlish for no good reason.
@@thenightstar8312 The Megamind 2 trailer has already been analyzed multiple times and is already being considered disappointing by almost everyone. Plus, we're talking about a movie, which would not have to deal with lower budget or quick start to finish dates, but Megamind 2 is animates like a DreamWorks Animation TV series (Not all of them, really just ones closer to the current year) because it is animated by DreamWorks Animation TV, which most people think they peaked at the Penguins of Madagascar show but fell off since
not to mention that the tennis balls dont even move forward. thanks to animation perspective, when the next ball is spawned, it makes it look like the balls are moving backwards
Yeah but this seems like it's more or less a pilot to a spinoff TV series So it's less like Kung Fu Panda 2 and more like... Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. Or Kung Fu Panda: Paws of Destiny.
It absolutely HATE how they made Megamind an egotistical narcissist. Its basically his only defining trait in the trailer... Which is _awful_ because in the ORIGINAL he wasn't like that. He had a lot more depth, actually being down on himself more often than not, but putting on a show of arrogance when he was winning! His ego stemmed from his desire to impress others and find acceptance, he wasn't just full of himself like your average Hollywood director...
Not only that, but the fact that he had an old crew just spits in the face of the original so hard! His loneliness is what gave his character self doubt, his only friend was Minion! Is there no respect for the OG!?
@@OfficialKirby You seem to think that daying they shouldn't strip his character down to the most bare parts without understanding them is the same as saying that he should have no flaws.
6:50 what's even funnier is that the title (megamind vs. the doom syndicates) was already the name of a megamind videogame. Yep they were that creatively bankrupt.
We wanted MegaMind but they’re giving us ColossalCranium! 2:25 To be fair, Cinderella 3 is actually good. Way better than the first one. 6:04 I think Will didn’t come back because he saw how bad the script was. He has denied coming back to movies because of bad scripts.
@@Anchor_ProductionsI mean would if the animation is top notch or better dialogue and better plot because all 3 are bad goes to the trash can literally all 3 stuff I said are bad animation dialogue and the plot is bad
This is why every film doesn't need a sequel. It's not because some stories don't need continuations- it's because you can have stuff like this happen.
I think this sequel teaches a very important lesson: it’s better to appreciate what you have than beg for more. And films like TRON: Ares with Jared Leto will probably further that lesson.
i don’t know how you could be offensive, she’s just one of thousands of world leaders. They have no personality or heart, they don’t care about anything other than themselves. Big time kings, queens, and presidents, but completely generic at core
Megamind was considered to be a master-class movie between me and my friend. We would always talk and joke about it and praise it as if it were some divine presence. When my friend told me that there was a sequel in the works (trailer hadn't released yet) I was like "oh that's awesome! As long as Will Ferrell is in it and it has actual effort put into it maybe it'll be alright!" ... Then the trailer dropped and we were weeping for hours.
Man, halfway through this video and I'm already like, "I definitely don't need to watch any more of this to know that unless rave reviews come out for this movie, we can add it to the massive pile of sequels that were just soulless cash grabs." Mega Mind is one of many amazing movies that is perfect just as it is. It does not need a sequel.
@@theyellowman9271 Around the part where he takes a sniff in Titan's apartment. And given the release date, they directly forced a comparison to Despicable Me even though the movies are NOT targeting the same audience. Marketers _should_ have targeted teenagers/nostalgic adults instead of kids. Edit: I looked for the exact commercial (because it was the one to convince me not to watch MM back in the day) but I cannot find it. I still feel MM would have done better if handled better by the marketing. It's a lovely classic.
Wait, wait, wait, hold the phone. You're telling me this is a TV show. And not a movie. When did even notice that and it's on peacock? My news, something was off about this. Where I first saw the trailer. I mean, I don't know if anyone will enjoy it. But that's just hope there are some people that love it
@@zeepsterd OKI mean honestly, I as a teenager. I did enjoy the first one but as an adult. I just stopped watching it. I mean battery thing. I have no idea if I watched the sequel. Because I don't have peacock. But I imagine you'd probably Will watched? I mean, if you do, watch It. Tell me how it is. It's a really good. I mean, come to think of it. It will should be on Netflix for some reason. I don't know why but it feels like it
At best it would of been a direct to streaming movie like how The Bad Guys got there Christmas special for Netflix but outsourcing your animation is a gamble when you go cheap and it sad to see that DreamWorks not only had layoffs but also cut costs despite the fact there own by Universal..however thinking into more of this i personally go for the fact that the failure of Ruby Gilman that had a rippling effect thanks to the Mario Movie and Oppenheimer gave DreamWorks very little marketing budget that would leave this as a flop which left them to l lose alot of money
The main reason why we didn’t get a sequel is that it didn’t do well critically on release. It became a cult hit way later. Some critics had even the audacity to call it a despicable me rip off which is funny since megamind was in production earlier.
I always dreamed about a Megamind Sequel for 14 Years, sure it was cautious when I heard it was a TV Series but Last Wish and The Croods a New Age gave me Hope for more Dreamworks Sequel but this isn’t what I wanted, this just feels like they massacred me Blue Boy and my All Time Favorite Movie like 2 Birds in One Stone, these are Darker Times My Friends, Plus this also looks like they took Notes from the Incredibles and Despicable Me, I’m just hoping this was Intentional and Does have Clever Writing.
It’s incredible that the OG megamind is 13 years old and the animation quality still holds up against some Disney films from that era …and the animation quality of the sequel is kiiinda trash in comparison
When I get hired to write for Megamind Rules, this is gonna change... And hopefully, so is Keiko. What I have planned when I become a screenwriter for this show is spectacular.
I would have to disagree on successor series of Dreamworks movies being worse. I mean How to Train your Dragon: Riders of Berks was really good. So was Kung Fu Panda: Legend of Awesomeness and Paws of Destiny. Trolls the beat goes on or maybe Trollstopia I really enjoyed and think is a little underappreciated. All Hail King Julian and the Adventure of Puss in boots I thought, were really good. And if we're talking Disney here then Rapunzel Tangled Adventure or the Big Hero Six series was great.
I feel like maybe they should take the “schaffrillas sequel recipe” route and create a direct sequel where it actually asks and answers about the origins of Megamind and Metro Man and their people, maybe bring in an actual alien as a villain, who may have been the one who brought the black hole that destroy their homeworld. If you guys want, I can create a quick synopsis on this supposed sequel plot
Ooh. I like Return of Jafar. It at least has continuity in tact and “Homer Simpson” does his best effort to replicate Robin Williams. Most of the cast returned and Jafar even got a banger song. A TV sequel I think is really bad is “Belle’s Magical World” as the characters are out of character, Beast is a total jerk and even says “I WILL NEVER APOLOGISE”!
6:43-6:49, I noticed the same thing with another sequel that tried cashing in on the cult following for an underrated animated movie that came out well over a decade earlier with Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue. That movie also spliced in footage from the original movie, reminding us of how much worse the new animation is, watered down any of the elements from the original that appealed to adults to make it just for kids, and retconned ideas like how Nicodemus foretold a prophecy that Timmy, the little boy dying of pneumonia in the first movie, would become a savior for the rats of NIMH even though he did nothing of the sort. I was 5 when it came out and even then I knew I was watching something that wasn't as good as the original since I had the VHS tapes for both films and while I watched the first one repeatedly, the second one was a one-and-done for me and I completely forgot about it until the Nostalgia Critic's review for it years later and I was like "oh yeah, that sucked!"
I never knew there was a megamind 2 until recently i just watched the first film and thought thats it and the story felt like its the end it didnt need a sequel
it looked and sounded so bad that i thought it was a fake like with the Kevin Temmer Tunes "3rd act of pixar's elemental" thing where people thought it was real, but the opposite
They completely forgot about the first film being that megamind is lonely and that was his entire character arc, however they brought the doom syndicate which are megaminds teammates thus completely getting rid of the sympathy the viewers feel for megaminds loneliness making the first movie useless
Megamind never needed a sequel, it was a contained story and premise. “What if the super villain won but it turned out he wasn’t such a bad guy after all?” Once the first movie ended that was it. That was the story. I know we all love these characters but they really don’t have many more original stories to tell. If you keep it going it just becomes generic superhero shenanigans because the original premise already wrapped up.
4:29 Yeah, I've found that with a lot of TV CGI animation - they have a very set range of designs, especially in shows aimed at younger kids. I don't know if it's limitations with TV CGI animation or just wanting to stick to what's known to work or what, but it's a disservice to how much variety animation is capable of in the design department.
the problem with blaming it on TV CGI is that streaming services have made it possible to have big budget TV series. Just look at Arcane, a TV show that, in terms of just pure animation quality, is one of the best pieces of animated media I have seen. With a budget of $90 million dollars.
I'm just gonna wait until it releases and someone posts it online somewhere because I don't wanna pay for a third streaming service, because despite the fact it doesn't look or sound too appealing, most Dreamworks shows I've watched aren't terribly hot shit, not sure about the movie though, gonna flip a coin on that one.
I mean, the core voice cast of this (Keith "2017 Flintheart Glomgold" Ferguson, Laura "Kasumi Yoshizawa" Post and Josh "Rise of the TMNT Donatello" Brener) are legit great voice actors...? This doesn't seem like they're getting A material yet, and the show will probably be a lesser entry in all their catalogues.
Replacing voice-actors from the original, dumbing down the budget for animations + outsourcing the animation to overseas, adding a cringe teenage female boss-character, yeah it's shaping up to be a real dumpster-fire. Pass this movie. The original Megamind is FAR superior.
it would’ve been cooler if it was like he got a message from someone on his home planet that also survived and he takes a trip to see them and the guy that destroyed it finds out and megamind has to defeat him
I mean well I'm just watching as a teenager. I thought it was fine but as an adult I just. I don't know I haven't watched the first one in a very long time. It's been a while
I figured at this point we'd moved past the "Direct to video" sequels and yet... here we are. The animation looks worse, the lighting and shading is a massive downgrade, and the lack of any of the main cast from the first film all show signs that this was churned out for profit. Big yikes.
what digs at me the most is there is something so wrong with megamind’s eyes, eyelids, and eyebrows. Something about it i cant put my finger on that feels so wrong
Remember how for the sonic movie the internet managed to bully an entire studio into changing the animation of their character? Can we all gather together and try that shit again?
A Megamind sequel was never going to work great because it was always just going to be for additional content not additional story, the story had already been told, so when I heard a megamind 2 was gonna be a thing I was prepared for disappointment and yet it still managed to disappoint beyond belief. It didn't just struggle with telling a new story or continued story but just completely disrespected the original story, retconed shit that didn't need to be, and devalued the theme and character development of the original film. It's easy for a sequel to not live up to the original or not make the story better but it takes a special type of stupid to make a sequel that actively makes the original worse Edit: also Incredibles 2 highlights this well it wasn't as good but it didn't take away from the original. The theme of the incredibles was the importance of family, and the characters throughout the film learned lessons connected to the themes that made them better people by the end of the film, the 2nd movie where not as good, respected those lessons and even if some actions slightly differed from them overall it didn't feel like it was just "And our heros learned an important lesson and then immediately through it away when we stopped filming" Whereas the Megamind sequel did exactly that. it's the equivalent of if at the end of megamind we got an epilogue speech that was like "And not long after some old villain friends of mine showed up, which I lied to you through the film about me being alone the whole time btw, and instead of immediately acting as the hero I learned to be I allowed them to convince me to betray people that had began to trust me completing ignoring the lessons I just learned" if that had happened the whole movie would have felt pointless and even if the rest the movie stayed the same it would have felt so much worse of a movie, and the sequel just came in and did exactly that
One of my favorite parts about the main movie is that megamind doesn’t name his hero Titan, he names him “Tighten”. The first movie has comedy that isn’t right in your face, you have to look for it, and in my opinion, that’s what makes a movie great. This new movie just makes me kind of sad that something so great could turn so bad.
Dude if they kept the same original animation the whole “he’s a hero now” thing would’ve flown but god like they’re catering to the new generation, when it grossed as much money it did because we are grown up. Maybe I’m old now I’m only 25 so maybe this is just how my parents felt taking me to see megamind in theatres when it came out shits just wild
This is my idea as to what the sequel should’ve been. Have Titan be the villain again but make him pure evil where he is obsessed with the powers megamind gave him in the first movie and is now trying to get them back. He then gets his powers back and has absolutely no mercy for others. I feel like this should also be a lot darker and more mature
The shot at 2:47 annoys me greatly, because it's so clear they made the tennis balls just pop into existence instead of at least putting them further down the barrel and having them move out. edit: ah, you noticed this too. I am not alone!
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“There is no will Ferrell, there is no Tina fey, and there is no queen of England.”
Oh god...
Stop! Stop! Hes already dead!
A lot of well regarded direct to video sequels didn't have the original cast. Are you gonna call the Kung Fu Panda TV series, which MANY people liked "bad", because it didn't have Jack Black in it? Your logic is just whiny and churlish for no good reason.
@@thenightstar8312 The Megamind 2 trailer has already been analyzed multiple times and is already being considered disappointing by almost everyone. Plus, we're talking about a movie, which would not have to deal with lower budget or quick start to finish dates, but Megamind 2 is animates like a DreamWorks Animation TV series (Not all of them, really just ones closer to the current year) because it is animated by DreamWorks Animation TV, which most people think they peaked at the Penguins of Madagascar show but fell off since
“Really funny man bravo bravo.”
When the Hazbin 50K parody looks better than the sequel to Megamind 💀
OUCH.
IMO it doesn’t and they both look bad
@@inkedthedemonthat hazbin animation is weird asf but the animation wasn’t that bad
It is
True
He isn’t shooting tennis balls, he’s spawning them.
Based
why the hell is he even shooting tennis balls in the fist place? why not like a lazer gun
not to mention that the tennis balls dont even move forward.
thanks to animation perspective, when the next ball is spawned, it makes it look like the balls are moving backwards
A true work of a genius...
Remove the word "tennis"
Shrek 2, Kung fu Panda 2, and Puss in Boots the Last Wish are phenomenal sequels. Making a really good sequel is possible
Shrek 2 is kino.
And keep in mine,Shrek 2 and KFP 2 took ONLY 3 YEARS and Megamind 2 took 13.
@@zeepsterd WAY better than every live-action Disney remakes!
@@E2ForLife took 13 years for em to get the idea, probably 2 months to cobble....that thing, together
Yeah but this seems like it's more or less a pilot to a spinoff TV series
So it's less like Kung Fu Panda 2 and more like... Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. Or Kung Fu Panda: Paws of Destiny.
That ain't megamind that's nevermind ☠️
HELP 💀
🤣🤣🤣
That was great xd
Stolen from the Megamind 2 trailer's comment section but ok😊
@@I.O_ProductionsAnyone could come up with that wihout seejng the original joke, it's not hard to think of. Stop being silly.
I said before, it's a crime that Megamind didn't get the Puss in Boots treatment.
Fr. Puss in Boots went from decent animation to extraordinary animation and this is the opposite
Blame peacock
Even the puss and boots tv show was pretty good on Netflix.. why couldn’t they treat megamind better
Every movie should get the puss in boots treatment. You're just saying that sequels should be better.
@@bumblebeeproductions1673I mean even the Netflix one is good though
It absolutely HATE how they made Megamind an egotistical narcissist. Its basically his only defining trait in the trailer... Which is _awful_ because in the ORIGINAL he wasn't like that. He had a lot more depth, actually being down on himself more often than not, but putting on a show of arrogance when he was winning! His ego stemmed from his desire to impress others and find acceptance, he wasn't just full of himself like your average Hollywood director...
Bro how did you capture megaminds personality better than the writers😭😭
@noobshateme644 It's pretty simple, he actually watched it, they didn't
Not only that, but the fact that he had an old crew just spits in the face of the original so hard! His loneliness is what gave his character self doubt, his only friend was Minion! Is there no respect for the OG!?
“Erm, but he’s no longer a villain so he should get rid of all his flaws” 🥸🤓
@@OfficialKirby You seem to think that daying they shouldn't strip his character down to the most bare parts without understanding them is the same as saying that he should have no flaws.
This is not megamind, it's micromind 💀
smoothbrain lol
Nah, *megamid* 💀
Nah its nevermind
Microbrain
It looks more like Lobotomy Blue than it is Megamind
6:50 what's even funnier is that the title (megamind vs. the doom syndicates) was already the name of a megamind videogame. Yep they were that creatively bankrupt.
Headcanon: The Despicable Me 4 villain is just Megamind using the disguise watch.
W theory
What you should be calling Headcanon is the blue dude who is supposed to be megamind
We wanted MegaMind but they’re giving us ColossalCranium!
2:25 To be fair, Cinderella 3 is actually good. Way better than the first one.
6:04 I think Will didn’t come back because he saw how bad the script was. He has denied coming back to movies because of bad scripts.
Put the prince jumping out a window here
I thought Will didn't come back because he was busy with Despicable Me 4 and Tina Fey was busy with Mean Girls.
nah this shit is supernoggin
I just watched Cinderella III 2 days ago, so many memories and so much fun for a uni student after exams!
@@judahtheechidna5673nah we got ultra encephalon
This show reminds me of those TV series that Dreamworks used to put out with Nick in the 2000s
EXACTLY
Except for Penguins Of Madagascar, that one was actually pretty good
It reminded me of All Hail King Julian from Netflix in 2015, but even that justified its own existence.
@@spicyshark No it was awful
Kung Fu Panda Legends of Awesomeness wasn't too bad
It's sad how They let Trolls and Boss Baby's sequel go theatrical but this is straight to streaming.
I mean would you want to watch this in the theatre?
@@Anchor_ProductionsI mean would if the animation is top notch or better dialogue and better plot because all 3 are bad goes to the trash can literally all 3 stuff I said are bad animation dialogue and the plot is bad
?????? How is that sad
Not really bc who would want to watch this in the theatre? I would have walked out.
peacock is kinda ruining it
I heard that Dreamwork's laid off a lot of staff last year and the animation for this was done overseas for cheap.
They got ripped off, because this looks like it was done overseas at gunpoint.
@@anth636fr what happened
Dreamworks didn’t even make this sequel tho. Peacock did
@@donathan2933but they still outsourced the animation and forgot to put in the lighting.
@@reverseshin true
this new trailer reminded everyone how good the OG was
This is why every film doesn't need a sequel. It's not because some stories don't need continuations- it's because you can have stuff like this happen.
Possibly except if you make a third part as well
I think this sequel teaches a very important lesson: it’s better to appreciate what you have than beg for more. And films like TRON: Ares with Jared Leto will probably further that lesson.
He already pretty much went through that
Wait, it feels like Incredibles 2 only came out like 2-3 years ago, not 6💀 time sure flies
It's because of covid, many of us remember those 3 years like a week.
This movie trailer is the ugly sonic drama all over again.
LOL
they better fix it just like Sonic did
@@a_qmz I pray it will be
but there was still a good movie with the ugly sonic. there isnt a good movie under the ugly here
@@a_qmz There's no saving this at this point
The button of doom was the true sequel
"There is no Easter bunny, there is no tooth fairy and there is no queen of England" Man that quote aged well. No offense of course. Rip the queen.
Personally I find it ironic that my grandpa outlived her and is still alive
Personally I find it ironic that she was a reigning monarch for 70 years while your grandpa wasn't, but still alive
@@yeehaw445 and yet all that money and power can't keep her alive
@@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881 and yet all that money and power was owned by her, and your still-alive grandpa don't have
i don’t know how you could be offensive, she’s just one of thousands of world leaders. They have no personality or heart, they don’t care about anything other than themselves. Big time kings, queens, and presidents, but completely generic at core
Ngl the sequel looks like Miraculous’ level of graphic 😭
Atleast there was some actual plot going on. 😢😢😢
Me:
I can’t believe you. All your gifts. All your powers. And you squandered them for your own, personal gain!
Dreamworks:
Yes!
This thing is already getting destroyed by every fan and its not even out yet imagine how awful it will be when it is
If you're going to take his handsome face. At least let Markymoo voice it😂
Megamind was considered to be a master-class movie between me and my friend. We would always talk and joke about it and praise it as if it were some divine presence. When my friend told me that there was a sequel in the works (trailer hadn't released yet) I was like "oh that's awesome! As long as Will Ferrell is in it and it has actual effort put into it maybe it'll be alright!"
...
Then the trailer dropped and we were weeping for hours.
He despised you. You were an embarrassment to him.
@@BullyMaguireMaguire you're lucky I love spider-man 3 lmao
I didn't even know this movie had a sequel.
It doesn't. It's RECENTLY getting one!
It does!
It’s a short film called The Button Of Doom it’s really good.
@@DeviemTwenBlud that’s not a sequel
@DimensionalGD it canonically takes place after the 1st movie so it still counts
@@DimensionalGDzoomer 🤢
Man, halfway through this video and I'm already like, "I definitely don't need to watch any more of this to know that unless rave reviews come out for this movie, we can add it to the massive pile of sequels that were just soulless cash grabs."
Mega Mind is one of many amazing movies that is perfect just as it is. It does not need a sequel.
I don’t know what the animators were on but it’s probably not legal
The first Mega Mind had the worst marketing.
There was even a fart sound in the commercial that wasn’t in the movie.
it did?
@@theyellowman9271 Around the part where he takes a sniff in Titan's apartment.
And given the release date, they directly forced a comparison to Despicable Me even though the movies are NOT targeting the same audience.
Marketers _should_ have targeted teenagers/nostalgic adults instead of kids.
Edit: I looked for the exact commercial (because it was the one to convince me not to watch MM back in the day) but I cannot find it. I still feel MM would have done better if handled better by the marketing. It's a lovely classic.
If I find it I will send it to you@@Bopperann
I thought Megaminds story was wrapped up nicely like a neat little package
Wait, wait, wait, hold the phone. You're telling me this is a TV show. And not a movie. When did even notice that and it's on peacock? My news, something was off about this. Where I first saw the trailer. I mean, I don't know if anyone will enjoy it. But that's just hope there are some people that love it
Both a TV show and movie.
@@zeepsterd OKI mean honestly, I as a teenager. I did enjoy the first one but as an adult. I just stopped watching it. I mean battery thing. I have no idea if I watched the sequel. Because I don't have peacock.
But I imagine you'd probably Will watched? I mean, if you do, watch It. Tell me how it is. It's a really good. I mean, come to think of it. It will should be on Netflix for some reason. I don't know why but it feels like it
At best it would of been a direct to streaming movie like how The Bad Guys got there Christmas special for Netflix but outsourcing your animation is a gamble when you go cheap and it sad to see that DreamWorks not only had layoffs but also cut costs despite the fact there own by Universal..however thinking into more of this i personally go for the fact that the failure of Ruby Gilman that had a rippling effect thanks to the Mario Movie and Oppenheimer gave DreamWorks very little marketing budget that would leave this as a flop which left them to l lose alot of money
Well Keith he previously voiced Megamind in the Video Game
He did better but this was SO bad he sounded more like John Mulaney.
@@RyanMcKennaGosling and that’s Big Jack Horner in disguise
The main reason why we didn’t get a sequel is that it didn’t do well critically on release. It became a cult hit way later. Some critics had even the audacity to call it a despicable me rip off which is funny since megamind was in production earlier.
I always dreamed about a Megamind Sequel for 14 Years, sure it was cautious when I heard it was a TV Series but Last Wish and The Croods a New Age gave me Hope for more Dreamworks Sequel but this isn’t what I wanted, this just feels like they massacred me Blue Boy and my All Time Favorite Movie like 2 Birds in One Stone, these are Darker Times My Friends, Plus this also looks like they took Notes from the Incredibles and Despicable Me, I’m just hoping this was Intentional and Does have Clever Writing.
It’s incredible that the OG megamind is 13 years old and the animation quality still holds up against some Disney films from that era
…and the animation quality of the sequel is kiiinda trash in comparison
Megamind got the exact opposite treatment as Puss in Boots
queen of England died for this??
underrated comment
Let’s talk about how this takes place like a day after the first one
And they have modern phones
Megamind who? That’s Ultrahead!
That’s Big Jack Horner to you
When I get hired to write for Megamind Rules, this is gonna change... And hopefully, so is Keiko. What I have planned when I become a screenwriter for this show is spectacular.
I would have to disagree on successor series of Dreamworks movies being worse. I mean How to Train your Dragon: Riders of Berks was really good. So was Kung Fu Panda: Legend of Awesomeness and Paws of Destiny. Trolls the beat goes on or maybe Trollstopia I really enjoyed and think is a little underappreciated. All Hail King Julian and the Adventure of Puss in boots I thought, were really good. And if we're talking Disney here then Rapunzel Tangled Adventure or the Big Hero Six series was great.
Agreed
I feel like maybe they should take the “schaffrillas sequel recipe” route and create a direct sequel where it actually asks and answers about the origins of Megamind and Metro Man and their people, maybe bring in an actual alien as a villain, who may have been the one who brought the black hole that destroy their homeworld. If you guys want, I can create a quick synopsis on this supposed sequel plot
Welp they officially shit on mega mind’s legacy
As a meme I saw once said :
I can believe you Mr. Krabs you promised the kids krusty the clown all I saw was CHEAPY THE CHEAPSKATE
It looks like a straight to video sequel made by Ai 😅
Ooh. I like Return of Jafar. It at least has continuity in tact and “Homer Simpson” does his best effort to replicate Robin Williams. Most of the cast returned and Jafar even got a banger song. A TV sequel I think is really bad is “Belle’s Magical World” as the characters are out of character, Beast is a total jerk and even says “I WILL NEVER APOLOGISE”!
6:43-6:49, I noticed the same thing with another sequel that tried cashing in on the cult following for an underrated animated movie that came out well over a decade earlier with Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue. That movie also spliced in footage from the original movie, reminding us of how much worse the new animation is, watered down any of the elements from the original that appealed to adults to make it just for kids, and retconned ideas like how Nicodemus foretold a prophecy that Timmy, the little boy dying of pneumonia in the first movie, would become a savior for the rats of NIMH even though he did nothing of the sort. I was 5 when it came out and even then I knew I was watching something that wasn't as good as the original since I had the VHS tapes for both films and while I watched the first one repeatedly, the second one was a one-and-done for me and I completely forgot about it until the Nostalgia Critic's review for it years later and I was like "oh yeah, that sucked!"
I never knew there was a megamind 2 until recently i just watched the first film and thought thats it and the story felt like its the end it didnt need a sequel
once an unique masterpiece wants to copy the mainstream, and wants more money, it fails. and it's just so terrible to see multiple stuff go down.
It's not just the quality of animation and rendering that has been regressed. The screenplay alone seems very lacking
In my opinion, this is not the real Megamind sequel. But just a movie that took place in a different timeline with cringy words.
I feel like the megamind in the sequel is megaminds secret young brother trying to be him CAUSE THATS NOT HIM 💀
2:28 Aladdin 2? THERE WAS A SEQUEL?!
it looked and sounded so bad that i thought it was a fake like with the Kevin Temmer Tunes "3rd act of pixar's elemental" thing where people thought it was real, but the opposite
These "advances" in animation are giant steps backwards
They completely forgot about the first film being that megamind is lonely and that was his entire character arc, however they brought the doom syndicate which are megaminds teammates thus completely getting rid of the sympathy the viewers feel for megaminds loneliness making the first movie useless
Megamind never needed a sequel, it was a contained story and premise. “What if the super villain won but it turned out he wasn’t such a bad guy after all?”
Once the first movie ended that was it. That was the story. I know we all love these characters but they really don’t have many more original stories to tell. If you keep it going it just becomes generic superhero shenanigans because the original premise already wrapped up.
Even Gmod can guns are more realistic than Megamind's tennis ball gun
To me megamind was never a villain, he was just an anti hero.
1:04 are you okay, girl?
4:29 Yeah, I've found that with a lot of TV CGI animation - they have a very set range of designs, especially in shows aimed at younger kids. I don't know if it's limitations with TV CGI animation or just wanting to stick to what's known to work or what, but it's a disservice to how much variety animation is capable of in the design department.
the problem with blaming it on TV CGI is that streaming services have made it possible to have big budget TV series. Just look at Arcane, a TV show that, in terms of just pure animation quality, is one of the best pieces of animated media I have seen. With a budget of $90 million dollars.
I'm just gonna wait until it releases and someone posts it online somewhere because I don't wanna pay for a third streaming service, because despite the fact it doesn't look or sound too appealing, most Dreamworks shows I've watched aren't terribly hot shit, not sure about the movie though, gonna flip a coin on that one.
I mean, the core voice cast of this (Keith "2017 Flintheart Glomgold" Ferguson, Laura "Kasumi Yoshizawa" Post and Josh "Rise of the TMNT Donatello" Brener) are legit great voice actors...? This doesn't seem like they're getting A material yet, and the show will probably be a lesser entry in all their catalogues.
Why just why! Megamind was so good I remember seening it with my Pawpaw in theaters.
Replacing voice-actors from the original, dumbing down the budget for animations + outsourcing the animation to overseas, adding a cringe teenage female boss-character, yeah it's shaping up to be a real dumpster-fire.
Pass this movie. The original Megamind is FAR superior.
That young Jedi show is like a year old maybe less
I didn't now it was a "pilot to a new series". That makes more sense, and makes me a little more okay with it.
This is the perfect example of this: Things will eventually lose their flavor
it would’ve been cooler if it was like he got a message from someone on his home planet that also survived and he takes a trip to see them and the guy that destroyed it finds out and megamind has to defeat him
0:11 "hello everybody my name is Markiplier and welcome back to another video"
0:20 is where the crazy frog music video was shot
The Penguins of Madagascar tv show was a cinematic masterpiece for me when I was a kid
The director will not make a mega mind instead they will make a mega disgrace
This sequel hurts my soul
This is a spiritual successor to those direct to video Disney sequels from the 90s and early to mid 2000s
I mean well I'm just watching as a teenager. I thought it was fine but as an adult I just. I don't know I haven't watched the first one in a very long time. It's been a while
The Big Red Button was the better SEQUEL than this TV SLOP!
I figured at this point we'd moved past the "Direct to video" sequels and yet... here we are. The animation looks worse, the lighting and shading is a massive downgrade, and the lack of any of the main cast from the first film all show signs that this was churned out for profit. Big yikes.
what digs at me the most is there is something so wrong with megamind’s eyes, eyelids, and eyebrows. Something about it i cant put my finger on that feels so wrong
Megamind 2 is literally just the megamind ripoff
Why does the sequel looks like they made it in BLENDER and Microsoft Paint???
That style of that animation and that characters in that sequel look like early Ladybug and Black Noir serial
Didn't explain why the budget is so low
Remember how for the sonic movie the internet managed to bully an entire studio into changing the animation of their character? Can we all gather together and try that shit again?
I thought I was the only one that noticed 😮😮😮
Money, Loads of Money.
A Megamind sequel was never going to work great because it was always just going to be for additional content not additional story, the story had already been told, so when I heard a megamind 2 was gonna be a thing I was prepared for disappointment and yet it still managed to disappoint beyond belief.
It didn't just struggle with telling a new story or continued story but just completely disrespected the original story, retconed shit that didn't need to be, and devalued the theme and character development of the original film. It's easy for a sequel to not live up to the original or not make the story better but it takes a special type of stupid to make a sequel that actively makes the original worse
Edit: also Incredibles 2 highlights this well it wasn't as good but it didn't take away from the original. The theme of the incredibles was the importance of family, and the characters throughout the film learned lessons connected to the themes that made them better people by the end of the film, the 2nd movie where not as good, respected those lessons and even if some actions slightly differed from them overall it didn't feel like it was just "And our heros learned an important lesson and then immediately through it away when we stopped filming"
Whereas the Megamind sequel did exactly that. it's the equivalent of if at the end of megamind we got an epilogue speech that was like "And not long after some old villain friends of mine showed up, which I lied to you through the film about me being alone the whole time btw, and instead of immediately acting as the hero I learned to be I allowed them to convince me to betray people that had began to trust me completing ignoring the lessons I just learned" if that had happened the whole movie would have felt pointless and even if the rest the movie stayed the same it would have felt so much worse of a movie, and the sequel just came in and did exactly that
One of my favorite parts about the main movie is that megamind doesn’t name his hero Titan, he names him “Tighten”. The first movie has comedy that isn’t right in your face, you have to look for it, and in my opinion, that’s what makes a movie great. This new movie just makes me kind of sad that something so great could turn so bad.
i hate that the texture of it change
and the city isn't even the same as the original if i were to choose what to watch i'd watch the old one
Pov Dreamworks spent most of their money on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
"This town isn't big enough for 2 megamind movies"
"Oh youre a movie alright, just not a megamind movie"
1:41 oh my gawd it’s the no b word meme
Dude if they kept the same original animation the whole “he’s a hero now” thing would’ve flown but god like they’re catering to the new generation, when it grossed as much money it did because we are grown up. Maybe I’m old now I’m only 25 so maybe this is just how my parents felt taking me to see megamind in theatres when it came out shits just wild
Dreamworks:WE’RE SAAAVED!
Peacock:Not saved. It’s More like under NEW MANAGEMENT!!!
This is my idea as to what the sequel should’ve been.
Have Titan be the villain again but make him pure evil where he is obsessed with the powers megamind gave him in the first movie and is now trying to get them back. He then gets his powers back and has absolutely no mercy for others. I feel like this should also be a lot darker and more mature
Nawh this ain't Megamind this Marginally Oversized Cranium 💀
The shot at 2:47 annoys me greatly, because it's so clear they made the tennis balls just pop into existence instead of at least putting them further down the barrel and having them move out.
edit: ah, you noticed this too. I am not alone!
This series when from megamind to nevermind