Imagine Superman without his arch-nemesis Lex Luthor. Or Batman without the Joker. The title character in Megamind confronts just this dilemma - except from the perspective of the villain. What would an arch-villain do without a superhero to battle? Simple answer: he'd be bored stiff.
Right from the opening scene, you know Dreamworks has produced a cleverly thought-out film that dares to veer from the norm. From the moment Megamind (voiced by Will Ferrell) is born, he's in competition for attention with another alien who has superhuman powers. Metro Man (Brad Pitt) grows up to be the good guy so Megamind becomes the villain.
But after Metro Man's attempt to rescue reporter Roxanne (Tina Fey) fails, Megamind ends up with no superhero to torment. So he creates a new enemy in the form of slacker cameraman Bernard (Ben Stiller). His plan backfires. The roles of good and evil are reversed, and Megamind becomes the thing he dreads most - the good guy.
Superhero stories are founded on cycles of success and failure. If the bad guys ever won, the good guys would simply cease to exist. Megamind toys with that concept, promoting the idea that superheroes are made, not born. Its take on the question of good and evil makes for lots of fun.