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DreamWorks Animation’s 2010 animated superhero film Megamind is now streaming on Peacock. The movie, led by Will Ferrell as the titular villain-turned-hero, joined the NBCUniversal streamer on March 1st and is now streaming alongside its 2011 sequel, Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate, as well as the spinoff series Megamind Rules. For those unfamiliar with the 73%-critic-rated film, Megamind is about a brilliant but hapless alien supervillain who loses his purpose after he actually defeats his superhero nemesis. When the new hero he creates to fight decides that it’s more fun to be a bad guy, Megamind must transform into the city’s unlikely defender.
Megamind Is the Superhero Movie We Didn’t Know We Needed
Megamind isn’t your typical superhero movie. In fact, the film is an incredibly brilliant and ahead-of-its-time subversion of the superhero genre that more closely resembles modern, deconstructive media like The Boys or Invincible than it does its contemporaries or other genre entries at the time. The movie effectively flipped the script on traditional hero-versus-villain dynamics, avoiding the traditional viewing of events through a hero’s lens in favor of following a sympathetic villain’s journey toward redemption and recentering the hero, a narcissistic, shallow celebrity, as the movie’s antagonist and the “nice guy,” Tighten, as the real monster.
