Megamind (2010) NYT Critics' Pick

[lsanderson]

Animated Ambiguity, Featuring a Big Head
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: November 4, 2010

Michael Jackson’s “Bad,” blasted near the end of “Megamind,” the witty 3-D animated deconstruction of superhero movies from DreamWorks Animation, encapsulates the paradoxes of a story in which evil morphs into good and vice versa. There was always something innately silly in Jackson’s wispy-voiced, childlike affectation of macho ferocity. My first reaction to a singer whose clout suggested a crooked finger more than a clenched fist was, “Oh, come off it, little boy.” More