{"id":3053,"date":"2013-07-13T21:58:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T01:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2014-02-09T20:16:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T01:16:57","slug":"megamind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/megamind\/","title":{"rendered":"Megamind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Imagine the most horrible, terrifying, evil thing you can possibly think of&#8230; and multiply it by 6!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Metro Man and Megamind have been fighting each other for a long time. On the day that Metro City is opening a new museum devoted to its defender Metro Man, Megamind puts his new plan into action. Once again Megamind escapes from jail, with a little help from his assistant Minion. And once again Megamind kidnaps Metro Man&#8217;s girlfriend Roxanne. This time, by sheer accident, Megamind discovers Metro Man&#8217;s weakness &#8212; and things are never the same again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Megamind<\/strong> was released in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an animated movie similar in tone to <strong>Despicable Me<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>When do you have a hero, a villain, a sidekick, and a damsel in distress who are all brilliant characters? In this movie.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few events at the beginning that are obvious, but once it gets going it&#8217;s hilarious and extremely clever.<\/p>\n<p>The fun music is by Lorne Balfe (<strong>Ironclad<\/strong>) and Hans Zimmer (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/man-of-steel\/\"><strong>Man of Steel<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Megamind is voiced by Will Ferrell (<strong>Stranger Than Fiction<\/strong>) and Metro Man is voiced by Brad Pitt (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/world-war-z\/\"><strong>World War Z<\/strong><\/a>). Roxanne is voiced by Tina Fey (the TV show <strong>30 Rock<\/strong>) and Minion is voiced by David Cross (the TV show <strong>Arrested Development<\/strong>). Jonah Hill (<strong>21 Jump Street<\/strong>), Ben Stiller (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/madagascar-3-europes-most-wanted\/\"><strong>Madagascar 3<\/strong><\/a>), and J.K. Simmons (<strong>Juno<\/strong>) also provide voices.<\/p>\n<p>The movie was directed by Tom McGrath (<strong>Madagascar 3<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Imagine the most horrible, terrifying, evil thing you can possibly think of&#8230; and multiply it by 6!&#8221; Metro Man and Megamind have been fighting each other for a long time. On the day that Metro City is opening a new museum devoted to its defender Metro Man, Megamind puts his new plan into action. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[68,9,6,5],"class_list":["post-3053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-animation","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3053"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4538,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions\/4538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}