{"id":1622,"date":"2010-11-19T13:41:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T18:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2010-12-20T22:08:33","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T03:08:33","slug":"megamind-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=1622","title":{"rendered":"CD: Megamind (2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Rating: Very Good<\/p>\n

Label: Lakeshore Records\/ Released: November 2, 2010<\/p>\n

Tracks & Album Length: 17 tracks \/ (48:17)<\/p>\n

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Composer: Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe<\/p>\n

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Review:<\/p>\n

Hans Zimmer\u2019s pairing with Lorne Balfe is a weird little score and seems to follow former\u2019s occasional switch to the particular styles of certain iconic Italian composers. With\u00a0Matchstick Men<\/strong> (2003), Zimmer crafted a punchy score evocative of Nino Rota, but the animated evil alien film\u00a0Megamind<\/strong> is a different animal.<\/p>\n

Zimmer and Balfe have deliberately created a theme (\u201cGiant Blue Head,\u201d and the light and mellow \u201cRoxanne Theme\u201d variation) that could\u2019ve been penned by Ennio Morricone in 1972 for any one of the farces, action films or giddy romances that that year.<\/p>\n

Other cues are written in a more airy, buoyant style, and \u201cTightenville (Hal\u2019s Theme)\u201d is interesting in the way the melody seems to drift away from its waltz rhythm. There\u2019s also a brief solo piano variation at the beginning of \u201cMel-On-Cholly\u201d before a switch to action mode with beautifully orchestrated flute and clusters of strings; and the specter of Bernard Herrmann fleetingly emerges in the kinetic \u201cGame Over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interspersed in the album are four source tunes \u2013 \u201cBad to the Bone,\u201d \u201cA Little Less Conversation,\u201d the whiny \u201cAlone Again Naturally,\u201d and the vile tune \u201cLovin\u2019 You\u201d \u2013 which take space away from the score proper. Most of the score cues are theme statements orchestrated to be urgent, lofty, or amiable, so the extra source cuts offer some melodic variation (even though they should\u2019ve been placed together at the CD\u2019s head or tail).<\/p>\n

Megamind<\/strong> sometimes sounds like a lighter kissing cousin of John Powell\u2019s\u00a0Evolution<\/strong> (2001) and guitar-heavy\u00a0Bolt<\/strong> (2008), but it\u2019s an interesting fusion of Zimmer\u2019s knack for lightness and fast-shifting moods, and his perfect emulation of Ennio Morricone\u2019s frothy melodic style.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2010 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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CD: \u00a0Bolt <\/a><\/strong>(2008)<\/p>\n

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