Megamind (2010)

Last month, we had an animated family comedy called Despicable Me, a passable but derivative entertainment about a super-villain going over to the side of goodness. Now comes Megamind, based on approximately the same idea, but appreciably funnier and more visually exciting. Will Ferrell voices Megamind, the bad guy with the enormous blue head, whose battle with lantern-jawed superhero Metro-Man, voiced by Brad Pitt, brings him to a personal identity crisis. Megamind has nice lines – his evil inventions include an "illiteracy beam" and something called "typhoon cheese". Good stuff, up to a point, but nothing like the passion and brilliance of The Incredibles or Toy Story.