Megamind Rules!: A Disappointing Debut┃Medianalysis [Ep. 2]

Almost 15 years ago, the world was graced with one of the greatest films that not just DreamWorks, but anyone had made about supervillains and their dichotomy with the superheroes they plot, scheme and fight against. It was a story about both sides falling into an existential ennui for different reasons, before they decide to make positive changes in their lives. A story where a hero becomes a villain, and a villain becomes a hero. Defying the standards that are meant to define them as they each take steps towards a life that is satisfying and fulfilling. Then they made 2 more movies things and the third movie was so bad, it became one of the worse movies of decade. So naturally, they decided to make a show about it. In case you didn’t know, my name’s Inviso Bill, and I’d like you to join me in this episode of Medianalysis as I go over the first season of the Peacock original series. Megamind…... Rules. There will be spoilers by the way, but if you made it this far, you probably don’t care. If you haven’t seen the first 3 movies which take place before the events of this show, I recommend watching my video which explains all 3 of them so you can get caught up with all the Megamind lore. And if you already are caught up, then let’s begin! It’s episode 1 and we are already off to a bad start. Megamind is standing in front of a mirror and trying to work on the way he delivers his heroic banter. He tells minion that he wants to inspire the people in the same way that metro man did, despite the fact that the last 3 movies which happened before this show, already taught Megamind that he doesn’t need to be like metro man to be a good hero. I’d say we are back at square one with this one, but it seems like we have gone back even further than that. Whatever. Megamind and Minion go to stop a crime in progress at the plot convenience store from the last movie. However, they are beaten to the scene by a vlogging superhero named…. (sigh) Dude Monkey After calling Megamind a geriatric hero while live streaming on not twitch, this very real and totally not fake superhero brags to his not twitch followers about how awesome he is before leaving Megamind and Minion in amazement in the fact that they have inspired others to fight crime. Oblivious to the fact that they were the butt of the joke. But if you ask me, this entire show is the butt of the terrible joke that is itself. Megamind then tries to be like Dude Monkey and becomes a superhero you can stream online (Wait a minute). As a result, he messes up a lot more than usual in his lame attempts to copy his competition. He then learns from some iPad girl that he doesn’t need to be like anyone else. He can just be himself. The very real superhero is asked to give a speech to the city, and when a black man shows up, he freaks out and reveals that he’s not actually a real superhero, and that all of his heroic actions were staged. No... There’s no way... You mean to tell me that this very genuine vlogger with an honest face was lying to his audience about the authenticity of his content? That’s just unheard of. I’ve never seen such a thing like this before. Megamind defeats the freak of the week, and the day is saved. Cool. I think the reason I hate this one so much is because it’s about Megamind learning that he doesn’t need to be anyone but himself. Even though that was literally the premise of the last 3 movies. They just taught us the same lesson 4 times in a row and it’s really making wonder who is even enjoying this thing. Well… that explains a lot. Megamind goes to a donut shop and causes the owner of said shop to fall into a vat of donut glaze. Throughout a series of unfortunate events, he inadvertently creates his own supervillain to fight. It’s basically the second movie, “Button of Doom”, but only twice as long and somehow half as enjoyable to sit through. Remember that SpongeBob special where he hits his head and the people around him think that because he has a cheese head and brown pants, his name MUST be Cheesehead Brownpants? Well… what if I told you they use that exact same joke here to justify calling him Dr. Glazer Donut? It's not funny… Dr. Dipstick (get it) regains his memories before he teams up with Megamind to stop the Bubble Guppies or whatever their dumbass villain group is called, and the day is saved. Cool. Alright this episode is actually pretty impressive. Not in that it’s good. God no. But it’s impressive in the fact that they somehow managed to fit a filler episode into an 8-episode season. Unless you count all of this as filler, in which case, it’s just par for the course at this point.