11-15-2010, 12:06 PM
Better than Despicable Me, and that's not just because I'm a Tina Fey fanboy. Actually Tina's voice talents were underwhelming, which was disappointing. Ferrell's voicing was great, and I'm not a huge Ferrell fan. Most of the trailer shows only the first half hour, save for one key spoiler scene (but that was totally predictable anyway). This isn't mindblowing, but it's consistently entertaining, and like Despicable, the minions, specifically the one named 'Minion', steals the show. There's a lot of satire of the original Chris Reeve's Superman, all of which went leaping (over tall buildings) over T's head as she's never seen it. The soundtrack is funny - Bad to the Bone, Highway to Hell, Back in Black, Crazy Train - again predictable, yet amusing. I was surprised to know T knows Crazy Train. Bad to the Bone is S's ringtone. Don't ask me why. There are some decent 3D moments, which was also disappointing as there are some nice city destruction scenes, made all the more amusing because the Metro City is clearly modeled on S.F.
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