"I have super-hearing, x-ray vision, and speed. Do you know how loud people are? Their thoughts? I just wanted five minutes of silence."
Roxanne Ritchi is underwritten. While Tina Fey gives her wit and agency, the plot sidelines her in the third act. She exists to be the moral compass rather than the hero she deserves to be. A small stain on a nearly perfect script. Final Verdict: Who Is Megamind? Megamind asks the question we’re all afraid to ask: What if I was born on the wrong side of the tracks? What if the villain is just the hero whose planet exploded first?
The irony is the point. Megamind has no "theme music" of his own. He borrows identities because he was never given one. The one original song— by Gilbert O’Sullivan—plays during his depression montage. It’s a 1972 ballad about suicidal loneliness. In a kids' movie.
This is the film’s first major subversion. We assume villains want power. Megamind discovers he wanted attention . He wanted a relationship. The "evil" was never the point; the dynamic was. To cure his boredom, Megamind does something reckless: he creates a new hero. Using Metro Man’s DNA, he creates "Titan" (later "Tighten"), a naïve cameraman named Hal.