#dreamworks watch

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Jen Tortures Herself With Every Dreamworks Animated Movie Ever: Megamind

So surprisingly, this is one movie I've never actually seen before outside of all of the memes and all of the love people tend to shower upon it, and after finally seeing it for myself... yeah, I totally get why. Megamind is based as fuck, ya'll.

We focus on, of course, Megamind, who is a supervillain who terrorizes Metro City and is opposed by the heroic Metro Man. At least until Megamind seems to successfully defeat Metro Man, leaving Metro City in his hands and quickly leading him into wanting more than just power alone. While in disguse, he ends up striking up a romance with Roxanne, a local reporter, and at the same time, he ends up creating a new opponent for him to fight to curb his growing boredum in the nerdy (incel) Hal, who quickly becomes more of a villain himself than the hero Megamind wanted him to be. So of course, this leads to all sorts of chaos and hijinks, and while you might think that plot sounds too complicated for its own good, I can surprisingly say, it really isn't!

Yeah, all of the moving pieces here work so well together, interwoven into a really compelling story with some pretty solid emotions and some great character moments. It helps that our cast itself is fantastic; Megamind is such a good lead, he's a genuis, but he's also totally socially graceless and is an absolute lovable goober as a result, one who comes to realize that he can be more than the "villain" stereotype he believed he was forced into being from childhood. Roxanne is also a really good leading lady; she's funny and snarky and has really great chemistry with Megamind throughout.

Metro Man doesn't get a ton of screentime, but he's a great parody on the usual superhero tropes, while Minion is the perfect right hand man (fish?) to Megamind in every way. Even our villain, Hal, or as he comes to be called, Titan, works really well here; he's the kind of asshole who just doesn't take no for an answer that we can all justifably hate (but he's also hilarious in his own right).

The animation is also really great here. I find that Dreamworks movies tend to look their best when their characters are highly stylized, and that's what we get a lot of here. We get a lot of really fun action scenes, both in terms of fighting and Megamind's tech. and strangely enough the special effects here (things like fabric and particle effects, etc) really stood out to me, they were all super well done.

The humor is absolutely fantastic here. It's not as adult as some of Dreamworks earlier days, but instead it relies more on who these characters are and how they interact with each other. I think one of my favorite running gags is Megamind obliviously mispronouncing various words (like school and Metro City). There's a bunch of small bits just like that throughout the movie, and they're all so fast paced and well delivered by a really stellar voice cast. The emotions also strike a cord here; there aren't any tearjerker moments, but you really do feel Megamind's growth here as he falls in love and eventually decides to become the hero he never thought he could be.

So yeah, I really enjoyed this one! It's a shame it took me this long to watch it, because it was super enjoyable all the way through. Also amazing that it never really spawned any legit sequels, but I heard its getting a show next year, so idk. I am probs not gonna watch it. Movie good tho, give it a watch if ya haven't.

Overall Rating: 9/10

Verdict: There is no Queen of England

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[valentimmy]

💀

[skeletoninthemelonland]

I was obsessed with him when I was 9 and still am to this day

[popppyfur]

EDIT: someone wrote a fic based off of this and im holding you all at gun point to read it rn

i did noooottt mean for this to be as long as it is lmao!! I LOVE THESE PINK BITCHES !!!!!

and their. questionable father

[tizzymcwizzy]

watched the bad guys again a few nights ago,, i missed these silly goobers :)))

[ryssbelle]

Night Owl vs Early Bird sleepover edition

[phibsies]

got to watching parkour civilization after maybe a week of my twt feed posting about it so have this

[punkk-draws]

i will be thinking about this movie for the rest of time

[siwym-archive]

:') Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

[hey-hey-j]

got smacked in the face by the image of Bruce getting teary eyed looking through photo albums thinking about his babies outgrowing him someday so naturally I had to draw it into existence

(★ my Ko-fi)

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Some common trends I've noticed in my Dreamworks watch so far:

Almost everything Dreamworks makes is Horny as hell to at least some extent (with the exceptions of Prince of Egypt and surprisingly, Madagascar)

Celebrity Voice Actors (for better or worse)

The Dreamworks Finale Dance Party is Real

There are swears in every single one of these movies (except, again, Prince of Egypt)

Along those lines, the kinds of jokes Dreamworks movies got away with in the 90s and early 2000s would probably never fly now

Dreamworks tends to release two movies each year, sometimes in very close proximity to each other. In almost every instance of this, one movie is fantastic or a cultural icon, while the other is absolute garbage or completely forgettable (Prince of Egypt vs Antz in 1998, Shrek 2 vs Shark Tale in 2004, and even later on, How to Train Your Dragon vs Shrek Forever After in 2010, just to name a few)

The two Aardman movies I've seen are, expectedly, exceptionally British

The plot of almost every Dreamworks movie can be summed up as "Because Woman" (what I mean by this is that usually the plot of any given Dreamworks movie is set into motion because one of the main characters is trying to get with a Woman) (except again, Prince of Egypt and Madagascar, later on I guess HTTYD and Kung Fu Panda too)

Despite several movies released close to very similar Disney movies (Antz to a Bug's Life, Shark Tale to Finding Nemo, Madagascar to The Wild and so on and so forth), the vibes are completely different from literally any Disney movie and I can respect that

2D Dreamworks women are so fucking beautiful all the time goddamn

Dreamworks villains tend to generally be much less memorable than Disney villains. Some of them are very one-note and just kinda... there (Tzekal-Kan, that general guy from Spirit, the general guy from Antz (what does Dreamworks have against general?), but the ones that are insanely memorable (Rameses, Mrs. Tweedy, Lord Farquaad, Eris) tend to be the most over the top and dramatic, I love them

I went ahead and watched a few Dreamworks holiday specials last night and lemme tell ya, they are Weird as fuck (Gift of the Night Fury is fantastic tho, I just about sobbed like a baby over this boy and his dragon all over again)

I hate this fucking studio but I'm also goddamn fascinated by them.

[zivazivc]

bby floyd sleeping with their dad's vest

[cocoa-mochaa]

can’t stop thinking about The Wild Robot I love it so much 😭 💟💟

[amethyst-halo]

ehehehe!!! boppy

[amerricanartwork]

I got so freaking excited seeing the trailer for "The Wild Robot", so naturally some fanart was in order! I didn't expect the painting to look so oily and have so many softer edges, but I still think it came out really nice and was good practice! Colored pencil really has helped me figure out a personal painting process, as here I actually used a similar layering technique as when I work in colored pencil.

Aside from that though, I haven't read the books yet (though I plan to after I see the film) but this movie looks like it's gonna hit so many of my favorite tropes and features when it comes to fiction and animated stories, including: non-human protagonists (and both of my favorite kinds, animals and robots!), stylized visuals, robot learning to be more than just their programming yet still maintaining their original robot skills and behavior to a degree, robot with emotions and unique ways of showing it, character in the wilds adapting by studying the animals, post-industrial-level technology existing in harmony with nature and the wilds rather than being portrayed as inherently harmful to nature and therefore inherently wrong to make (this is a big one for me), the odd duo, the gentle giant, a character finding belonging in an unexpected environment, just general wonder for the beauty of the wilds, and probably other things that'll come to me as I understand this story more.

But even beyond that, I just had to draw Roz because she's so freaking cute! Like, even excluding the adorable way she mimics the animals or glows when happy or how her "eyelids" give her more facial variation, in design alone she's so round and sweet looking! And somehow her being big and bulky to juxtapose her kindness with an strong and imposing stature just makes it even better! I love characters who are large and intimidating at first glance but total softies on the inside. Brightbill's definitely in good hands!

If the film holds up and Roz also has a clear and entertaining personality beyond just being curious and caring, there's a 60% chance that come September she'll become my new robot blorbo (roblorbo?), up there with C-3PO, Wall-E, and Five Pebbles!

Also, another version of the sketches from when they were just the lines for comparison!

[ryssbelle]

Had a silly dream where JD and Floyd came back to the troll tree before the last trollstice but after singing killed their grandma and decided to doodle and expand upon it a bit

Clay never left the tree but was too scared to return to the families pod since he didn’t want things to go back to how they were before, he did try to find his brothers during the escape but got separated by the cave in.

John Dory was the one to find Clay and see him get caught by the cave in, when he came out of the tunnel without Clay and holding his wristband they all just assumed he was dead. Even so JD still searches for Clay with the hope that he might’ve escaped and is alive out there.

They know Bruce is alive but after JD got the post card he assumed Bruce didn’t want to be found

Some more doodles that kind of show their dynamic

Also-

JD always brings home souvenirs for the brothers both as an apology for being gone for so long and also because of this: