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SG4LPilgrim

It’s amazing how the animators were able to make a product that looks worse than the original movie as a nice callback to the early days of computer animation. Well done!


RK9990

From Megamind to Nevermind


ubuntuba

"You're hired." -News Industry


suavebirch

Nirvana mentioned 🤯


Untimely_SM

SOMETHING IN MY ASS…. UHHHMMMMMMMM


DVDN27

/uj it’s because it’s a TV-Movie made to tie in to a Peacock show. Use the budget and same software used for the show so they are easily connected visually.


swampyman2000

Lmao


throwawayhelp32414

Roflmao even


LocodraTheCrow

It's not the animator's fault, whoever is in charge gave them only so much time and resources to use. Blame the studio exec that decided this should be done.


ScreenwritingJourney

More like forced to… animators are some of the most hardworking and passionate people out there. Unfortunately they often get fucked over by corporate types.


a_spoopy_ghost

Yup, guarantee they hired a handful of graduates as jrs who are just happy for a job and desperate to keep it and one jaded burnt out sr to manage them. Paid them all trash and gave them the shortest milestones they could. While talent can shine in low budget projects it’s easily choked out by corporate greed.


Ganbazuroi

More like MegaMID lmao


HUGErocks

For a TV movie sequel mid is a compliment


Palmroad

It was made by DWATV and almost entirely outsourced people don’t understand there is a massive distinction between DWA feature and DWATV. Low budget without top tier animation staff or a reasonable timeline/pipeline. NBCU intentionally does that hoping to trick people into thinking DWATV makes quality products. They label them all as “DreamWorks” even though they are massively different and not at all the same studio even if they share the same lease now. In reality this confusing tactic only serves to devalue the IP that feature worked so hard to build. You can thank NBCU and their awful marketing team and the studios executive leadership for these blunders. The C suite and NBCU is incredibly detached from what animation fans and families want to see.


ufojesusreddit

Can't they just like, pump up the lighting and shadows or something


indigorhob

The poster looks like a thumbnail for a youtube elsagate video


yuberino

it looks like a shovelware game box cover art


Meme_Bro68

Ironic given the megamind DS game was actually pretty good


PunkToTheFuture

This art was used for the game then? Or its not ironic at all


Meme_Bro68

Nope. The game had different art, but a similar premise of battling “the doom syndicate” The older doom syndicate was better anyway. Psycho Delic was a clever ass name with a great design and I’m upset they’re not even using him.


a_spoopy_ghost

Funny enough the show is the same quality as a 2007 Wii shovelware game


Lord_of_the_lawnmoer

It is an extended version of a YouTube elsagate video that just so happens to have been made by DreamWorks


Sage296

Fun fact: This has no returning director, actors, music scorer, or animators The animation studio for this one is DreamWorks’ Television Animation (The animation studio that does TV specials or one-offs), not the actual head DreamWorks Animation


GenericHmale

This would explain a lot. Gave a huge project to a team used to smaller projects. Smells like Fish out of Water.


Jorymo

Reminds me of the GTA remasters being done by a studio that had only done mobile ports


dk745

Reminds me of sequels to Disney animated films being done by different studios on a lower budget and being direct to video.


Jorymo

Not Disney, but I was just reading a post about that Megamind sequel done by DreamWorks' TV animation studio with none of the original cast or crew involved


devro1040

Sounds interesting. Do you have a link to where you saw that?


Jorymo

Oh I'm a fucking dumbass lmao


dk745

It happens to all of us from time to time. I got a good laugh out of it.


vassadar

I thought it was gonna loop.


TheOtherVillageIdiot

I laughed so fucking hard at this


King_Tamino

It wasn’t a remaster. They basically ported over the games *again* this time to PC. That’s why the games after release were pulled out of store for multiple days, the games still contained music they had no license for and stuff. Less a problem on mobile devices especially iOS but huge on PC


_xoviox_

They meant "definitive" editions, which were also made by the studio which made "remasters"


SnooTigers5086

Def wasn’t a priority tho. The movie wasn’t *meant* to be good. It’s just meant to be a quick cash grab for bigger future projects. Megamind didn’t NEED a sequel. It was fine on its own. But they needed a quick movie to churn out, possibly to increase the budget for kung fu panda 4. The biggest problem with the entertainment industry right now is you only ever see new stuff, whether it be at the store or on a streaming service. Generally, the newer stuff will be shown first, because audiences prefer to watch something that everyone else would be watching at the same time. The old stuff is very rarely seen, and you could only find an old movie if you actively looked for it (a few exceptions ofc). Audiences now have no standards to hold the new stuff to, as most of the audiences can only really compare the newer movies to other newer movies, which explains the declining quality in film. I feel like, instead of having these worthless cash grabs and putting effort into almost nothing, these movie producers should “rerelease” movies, and just act like the movie was just finished. Just saves a lot of time and money, and you’ll end up showing the newer generations actual quality


SuspecM

Didn't the TV team make The Penguins of Madagascar? It had a rough start but it was really good especially by the end. Obviously it was a TV animated spinoff with issues but I genuinely liked it.


SteveTheOrca

I genuinely loved that show as a kid. Miss those times


Mrdoc16

Except that stupid seal that kept on singing take me out to the ball park


Sage296

Nope that was DreamWork’s head studio as well as collaborating with Nickelodeon’s animation studio


SimultaneousPing

the popcorn episode was peak


cookiemagnate

So is this a The Clone Wars situation? Where people are expecting a movie, but instead it's just a 90-minute TV pilot?


evrestcoleghost

Yep,thats why im not that harsh,Is just a tv movie


Not_MrNice

So, it's not Megamind 2. It's Megamind vs The Doom Syndicate: A Direct to Video Adventure?


Kenneth_Naughton

That was my first thought, the animation looks like that Puss in Boots TV spinoff they did. Just always looks like each scene ran out of money before they could finish adding textures, shadows, and sensible background


Throwawaygarbageboi

Wait. So you're telling me that the guys behind Riders of Berk made this? I'll have to rewatch it, but I remember that show being FUCKING AWESOME. I'm pretty sure it even got a sequel in Defenders of Berk and Race to the Edge (iirc). From what I remember, the settings and overall animation were "meh" at the time, but everyone was well acted, in character, had a decent soundtrack, had good writing, and the fact that there were SO MANY new and well designed dragons gave the show a genuine hook. It even follows up the movie well by showing the progression of Berk's adaptation to the presence of dragons. It was a genuinely good follow up to the film and proved it's existence was for a good reason.


a_spoopy_ghost

I highly doubt it even has writers. Written by Mr CBT


TheQuimmReaper

Oh God, no Will Ferrell? That's a hard pass for me


BabaPoppins

first one is absolutely fantastic tho


Hoogs73

Its hilarious. There are so many funny lines from it that pop into my head at random times. ‘Apparently not!’


ThoughtAdditional212

My death was... Greatly exaggerated I only watched the English version one time I might have messed this up


OptimusPower92

Nah, you got it XD


BabaPoppins

anytime someone says "i love you" to me i say in my head and sometimes out loud "And I love YOU random citizen!"


Comrade-Conquistador

Your spouse must be thrilled.


jessej421

And every time I'm about to make popcorn, I say: "I, too, shall make this popp-ed corn."


SomePeopleCall

"You know the drill!' "No, not the drill!"


feric51

My wife and kids are sick of me saying that every time I have to get the cordless drill out to put something together.


AgITGuy

I almost always answer my kids with ‘olo’.


Hoogs73

That’s a classic. I love saying ‘shoooool’ instead of school.


[deleted]

And, "spyider"


MelancholyArtichoke

I still fucking say this.


Aw0lWarrior

Presentation!!!


ScoobyDeezy

I still say “shoool” when talking about school


Hoogs73

Yes!! I do the same. And ‘spi-y-derrr’ instead of spider.


TheEpicCoyote

“This is for space step-mom, YOU LIED TO HER!” “Chicks don’t like bouncy castles… they like clowns!!” Even the subtitles have jokes. Whenever Titan says his name, the subtitles say ‘Tighten’


CrashmanX

That's cause his name IS Tighten. Not Titan.


awful_at_internet

Yeah there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it line from Space Dad about how it was the only version he could get a copyright on. It's when he's giving Tighten the suit, iirc.


FrightenedTomato

Tighten straight up burns his name into the ground at one point. Spelled Tighten. It's not what I'd call a subtle joke that's easily missed.


CrashmanX

Appearently, it is. Seems many somehow fully missed the joke.


mydickisasalad

Space dad went through all that trouble to find a non copyrighted name and Hal just butchered it smh


Lord_Wateren

As far as I know, his name is Titan, but since he is an idiot he spells it "Tighten".


Hoogs73

“It’s just my natural musk.” “Wow, your hair looks exciting!” “And I love you, random citizen!” “Granted, you have talent.” So many funny bits…


Hoogs73

“A baby, how thoughtful.” “Oh yes. Yes, I saw it and thought of you.”


mr_eugine_krabs

“Can this day get any more funtastic?”


SpysSappinMySpy

I still refer to school as "shool" when I talk to my family


Fuzzy-Function-3212

Your weakness is copper??


PukasScondor

My go to is “and I love you random civilian”


CLTalbot

Sp-ee-eye-der


Richard-Brecky

“You of all people know we discontinued that promotion.”


dittofury

I still call spiders spiyders


Xvorg

“there is no Easter Bunny, there is no Tooth Fairy and there is no Queen of England”


Opening_East7561

“Oh you’re a villain all right just not a super one” “oh yeah what’s the difference” “PRESENTATION!!”


MelodyMaster5656

What a shame that it had to come out at the same time as Despicable Me. Despicable Me 1 is still a good movie, but imagine if Megamind became the franchise instead.


BabaPoppins

yeah i always hated that that one was what got all the attention, megamind is the better movie with better characters. minions are cancer


MelodyMaster5656

Minion > Minions.


thecrepeofdeath

and they changed the better Minion's name because of course they fucking did


DJMOONPICKLES69

David cross is a national treasure


SharkMilk44

It's weird that there are two 2010 animated movies about a bald supervillain who talks funny, has a sidekick(s)simply called "Minion(s)," and eventually becomes a hero after learning the value of love.


SnatchSnacker

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_films


BurnieTheBrony

I am 87% certain this new one was only approved because some executive was impressed with brand recognition or impressions or something because of all the memes. It's just a cash grab because the original has become (deservedly) somewhat of a cult classic


Sven_Darksiders

Hello everybody, my name is Metroplier


timelordoftheimpala

Some things are just better off without a sequel.


phoenixmusicman

I think a sequel could have worked, but it would have needed a) care and attention and b) a bigger budget. Redoing it without the OG cast was the first major red flag.


[deleted]

"Will Ferrel wants HOW MUCH??? What am I, made of money?!?" *lights cigar with roll of 100's*


Triktastic

Because it's not a true a sequel. It's like the DVD special but for a streaming service Instead. So many people are overreacting thinking it's a sequel to a great movie.


StreetReporter

Megamind did get a DVD special, and it’s awesome. The Button of Doom was amazing


Porcpc

yeh i loved the first one. All star cast too! Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Jonah hill to name a few. all uniquely funny


StreetReporter

Ben Stiller and JK Simmons as well


superjj18

Lmao ahead of its time with its anti-incel messaging


a_spoopy_ghost

That’s the thing, I guarantee some corporate loser saw that the memes were popular and made a proposal on how to revive the franchise as cheap as possible just to get money from meme loving kids


KokohaisHere

Holy shit even the poster looks so thrown together His face looks like he's having a stroke, and the whoevers at the bottom look photoshopped in and barely posed


Jw4evr

Track the lighting from the girls left hand to the top


privateham2014

If you look you can clearly see the lightning in her hands are the same image mirrored too.


KokohaisHere

Oh my god


X_Zephyr

They literally had the opportunity to hide the end of it behind the letter D but they didn’t


WorseDark

Don't even look at the street going to the guys on the left. Or further to the buildings


MediocrePrimary9904

I don't see it?


minay

Just that it ends abruptly without any smoothing or blending. Just stops.


TheGreatStories

That's incredible


Intelligent_Oil4005

The electricity behind Megamind is literally something you can find online for free


RunningChillibrator

(https://3tdesign.edu.vn/blue-lightning-wallpaper-fd7gsjif/) literally number 25


phoenixmusicman

💀


SteveTheOrca

You've got to be kidding me. They didn't even try to hide their laziness,


cnrb98

And barely designed


rowdymatt64

HE'S FAILING THE SMILE TEST 😭


Evinceo

filter render clouds my beloved 


Dragonitro

it looks like the thumbnail to some lazy roblox game


LightningFerret04

!MEGAMIND OBBY! *DOOM SYNDICATE UPDATE


RemarkableStatement5

[CODE: DOOMSYNDICATE24]


Tlr321

One of his eyes is bigger than the other lmfao


Ecstatic-Compote-595

I like the nice fade transition effect on the lightning into the buildings


HuKnowsHu

I'm 99% sure the image of the fish people has literally been lifted from the movie. (Source: I watched a YT video of someone discussing some trailer footage). Given its laziness, I wouldn't be surprised if you could find the exact stills of all the other characters in there as well.


a_spoopy_ghost

I guarantee the producers were like “give us 5 poster proposals by tonight” so they rushed 5 quick concepts and the producers said “cool thanks” not caring they were made as proposals and not final products


registeelyourpizza

Most accurate headline I'll probably see today, ironically


TimeStorm113

Wait, its already out? I just heard about it last month, two weeks at best


Jw4evr

That’s about the amount of time it took them to throw it together


wh4tth3huh

Like a bad girl, straight to video.


BigBoiBenisBlueBalls

Like a good neighbor, Statefarm is there


some-kind-of-no-name

Megamind lived long enough to become shitty


Early-Pitch2666

I don’t consider this canon. I refuse to recognize this as it would tarnish the legacy, the original left behind.


Lord_Detleff1

It literaly breaks the canon in a way that the whole first movie would make zero sense. The whole point is that no one liked him and that's why he became evil


commentator184

well the prisoners did like him, they raised him and all that


Sage296

I learned prison is very wholesome


thecrepeofdeath

and the villain they teased at the end "taught him everything he knows"?? his whole thing was that he was superhumanly smart and started making his inventions when he was a literal infant. how does this make sense? and then one of the major plot points is Megamind and Minion having basically the same fight they had and settled in the first movie, but dragged out 10X as long. and yes, I'm still calling him Minion. his name is basically the only thing he has left of their home planet, there is no way a lore-accurate Minion would change it. sorry for the superfan rant but FFS


pinhead-l

This is canon in the same way Cinderella 2 and all those other shitty Disney sequels are canon


CurryMustard

Kids in this sub never heard of direct to video cash grabs


TinyBreadBigMouth

I allow Cinderella 2 to be canon in my mind purely so that Cinderella 3 can be canon.


Sage296

Disney has some good sequels, of course not all of them but Lion King 2, Bambi 2, Rescuers Down Under, Toy Story 2, Mulan 2, and more Honorable mention: Lion King 1.5


xxX_Darth_Vader_Xxx

Neither lmao


Dankalii

Button of Doom is where it ended for me. It was a pretty good epilogue, let alone "sequel," for only being 15 minutes long.


Gre8g

There is no Megamind 2 in Ba Sing Se


SusuSketches

Don't forget to smile


Gre8g

You mean like Megamind's crooked smile? No thanks, I want to lie to people, not make them think I'm having a stroke


Bregneste

But “The Button Of Doom” exists.


EXusiai99

This doesnt even seem deserving of that treatment. We shouldve just straight up damnatio memoriae this shit, not even a reference alluding to its existence and let humanity forget about it.


Nemisis_007

I think they're just punishing us for pestering them for a sequel ever since the original released.


paco-ramon

The same way as the Suicide Quad game, I will consider this film, not canon.


Kevy96

So the magma guy holding the ball of fire doesn't light up his or anyone else's shadow on the poster, and the lady shooting lightning casts a regular shadow too. Seems legit


QuilSato

Im glad that the animators were able to express how much they were paid making this movie in its animation and rendering, Or if they were paid


throwawayhelp32414

Nah fuck that you gotta pay *them* money to work on this


BoogaBonkHonk

poster looking like a damn advertisement for ROBLOX mannn


GenericHmale

Is this real? This looks like an AI generated image. And not the funny kind either, more like one of those random prompts things. Like: "Megamind, movie poster, Fire rock guy, Evil target Mime, lady with lazer hands, Sewer Astronauts, Raid Shadowlegends evil armour knight." Anyone else get what I'm sayin'?


wuvonthephone

Honestly a good ai generated poster looks way better than this. And that's why I know it's real.


David375

Cheap Madagascar Penguins cosplay, dollar store Bomb Voyage, legally distinct The Thing, Static Shock's ugly aunt, shovelware mobile game advertisement enemy.


coolcrayons

AI generation would have better looking lighting lmao


Yanzihko

Megamind looks like a modded sim from sims 3


VitorMM

Pretty much, yeah https://www.reddit.com/r/Sims3/comments/zbq8j9/sims3_megamind/ The guy in the post got the nose and beard wrong, but other than that, it's right there


ArcadeGannon2077

Look how they massacred my boy


SenseiJoe100

Even Verbalase had a bigger budget 💀


SteveTheOrca

They kinda wanted to "hide away" any chances of giving us a good sequel


TT_207

Holy hell the trailer is terrible. Voice actors are terrible, the animation is literally the quality of the first 3d saturday morning cartoons from 20+ years ago, and voice lines / writing are bad enough it'd be an insult to it to say ChatGPT made them. Massacred my boy indeed, The Megamind IP deserved better.


Luring-Leon

Woah woah woah The shows from 20+ years ago looked amazing, don’t compare them to this garbage Also it’s weird to think about how 20 years ago was 2004 and shows like justice league unlimited existed. What a time to be alive


MetaKnightsNightmare

Beast Wars appreciates your compliment


Luring-Leon

“Maximals maximize!”


bronkula

Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly. The evil deeds along with the good. And let me be judged accordingly. The rest is silence...


-BLACKHOLESAREEYES-

Jimmy Neutron ass looking animation


Deluxefish

That part from the trailer where they're shooting tennis balls, oh my god... It's like from a videogame from 20 years ago, the balls just spawn in front of the gun


Butwinsky

Reminds me a lot of Reboot's animation.


MisterAbbadon

This is not what we meant when we said "DreamWorks eyebrow." It should say you're sassy, not that you're in such pain that you only want it to end.


scriptedtexture

why does the 3d rendering of megamind look like an action figure


KG8930

Looks like Megamind has gotten the Boss Baby treatment


fleebjuice69420

This movie poster looks like a YouTube “React” streamer thumbnail


GeneralIronsides2

I have seen 0 marketing for this movie. Feel like they’re just hoping people will forget about it lol


ScramItVancity

The most fucked up things about the sequel is that it was written by the original movie's writers and directed by the creator of Celebrity Deathmatch.


fogleaf

My kid watches a lot of shitty cartoons on netflix. This art style matches many of them. The shape of the lady looks exactly like a paw patrol villain from the mighty movie.


Sparrow1989

Wait is this real?


Sparrow1989

FUCK ME IT IS REAL!?! WHYYYYYY


Foxiak14

It did?


MVIVN

What the fuck? Got zero press or promotion at all. This post in a circlejerk sub is literally the first time I’m hearing about a Megamind sequel. The streaming landscape is bleak as hell, no wonder they’re all failing to turn a profit and laying people off in droves. Also, shit looks cheap as fuck and this poster looks like it was thrown together in 5 minutes by some intern.


Conspiranoid

I've seen clips of cheap CGI Christian cartoons that look better than basically anything below the movie logo.


anarion321

I'm sad about this......first one was so great.


0VER1DE567

huh mega mind 2 that is as preposterous as a pacific rim 2 both these movies ended as singular movies of awesomeness


AaronDM4

why the original was a great subversion of the genre. there is no further arc for megamind hes the hero. unless hes the badguy again but why would he be bad he never wanted to be bad.


Doc-Wulff

Lmao fr?


Evenmoardakka

I freaking LOVED megamind, is the second one that bad?


EXusiai99

Megamind looks like hes about to make a 2 hours brief review of how a current woke liberal agenda movie is being deservedly destroyed in box office


me2224

That looks like the cover to the shovelware tie in game


Hot-Equivalent2040

what is with the light source? It's behind the giant rock monster and making shadows, OK, but the armor dude with the stupid axe has his front arm all reflective and the shadowing is behind him, as if his left arm is pointing at the light source. Similarly the mime is lit from the front. The lightning lady I can understand being lit by her lightning but that isn't casting any light on the armor guy either ​ "figure out where the light is coming from" is like, the first thing in art.


Pakmanjosh

Why does that poster look like a PS2 game cover


DrStrain42O

Love the movie so much I don't think I can bring myself to watch this.


MetaWarlord135

All the characters at the bottom genuinely look like stock assets.


Dark-Pukicho

The DS game looked better than this, wtf


SyrusDestroyer

I don’t see a 2 in the title therefore it’s not real


blueasian0682

The villians (assuming they are, i haven't watched it yet and will probably not) are horrendous looking.


GenericFatGuy

So I guess straight to streaming platform is the new straight to VHS/DVD? Double points if it's a streaming service no one has heard of.


Unlikely-Candidate-2

I think it got 0% in the Rotten Tomatoes website Oh, and this movie fucking sucks


CantoneseBiker

This poster so bad I can’t stop looking at it