Disappointing Teaser Trailer To Dreamworks Animation’s ‘MegaMind’

Dreamworks’ supposed response to Pixar’s brilliant ‘The Incredibles’ is known as ‘MegaMind’ starring Will Ferrell and Brad Pitt as voices. Too bad the teaser trailer isn’t nearly as assuring as they think. In fact, it’s pretty disappointing.

When super villain MegaMind (Ferrell) defeats his archrival Metro Man (Brad Pitt), the world should be his oyster. But instead, MegaMind falls into total despair. It turns out that life without a rival is life without a point for him. So, he creates a new superhero rival, Titan (Jonah Hill). Unfortunately, the new hero wants to be a super villain, too. Caught in the middle, star reporter Roxanne Ritchi (Tina Fey) asks the tough questions: Who can we turn to? Who has what it takes to stand up to this menace? Who will defend the innocent? MegaMind! That’s who.

First of all, we hardly see anything here to make up our mind. But what we do see isn’t really funny or indicative of a good film. The villain is too wacky for his own good even though Ferrell voices him (or maybe because). Also, Downey Jr. would have been much better for the film (he was originally cast). I’ll give this a chance with a full trailer before I make up my mind but I don’t see a lot of hope here.

Trailer after the jump.