The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization, as shown in movie reviews...

[seawasp]

EDIT: It appears, looking at the Huffington Post review, that the misspelling is in-movie deliberate. Megamind himself names the new superbeing "Titan", but the person in question is... perhaps not that educated and assumes he means "Tighten", and this is the way he thinks of the name. So... yeah.


james_nicoll  pointed this out, but I couldn't believe he might be referring to, well, REAL reviews by actual noticeable organizations (as opposed to web reviews, IMDB stuff, etc.). But several reviews of the movie Megamind, including one from the L.A. Times, mention that the name of Megamind's replacement-for-his-nemesis is "Tighten".

Tighten?

That's TITAN, you microcephalic imbeciles! As in immense, powerful? As in from Greek Mythology? The beings that were the progenitors/rivals of the GODS?

*buries face in hands*

What DO they teach them in these schools? Get off my lawn! Back in MY day we had to read Greek Myths as bedtime stories! (No, Timmy, not as recent history, that was MY father, get a sense of TIME, will you?)

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Back when I was a kid, I read them for fun. Still do, in fact

[lwe.livejournal.com]

Given that there's a football team called the Tennessee Titans, and a popular pick-up truck called a Titan, not to mention everyone knows the word "titanic," it's really incomprehensible.

You know, sometimes bizarre misspellings come from the studio's own presskit, where some low-level PR twit screwed up; I wonder if that could be the case here?

[rugor.livejournal.com]

IMDB lists it as "Tighten," too.

I think it was deliberate. Still incredibly stupid, but deliberate.

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

And here I was trying to figure out what sort of a power would fit Tighten. Telekinesis with poor force control? Snares/lassoing skills? Specialized spot gravity control?

Or maybe the character is supposed to be the idiot?

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Even more incomprehensibly, megamind.com lists it as "Tighten"

[othercat.livejournal.com]

They eventually stopped new that because apparently IDOLATRY OMG. (or so I've heard, I was near the end of the "you have to read mythology," and kind of resented the lack of Norse, and the only Hawaiian mythology book in the school library was a paper back with teensy weensy type.

[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

I just saw the movie. (Not at all bad, by the way.) Yes, Megamind names the character "Titan," but he hears it as "Tighten," and that's how the end credits list him.

So the reviewers, IMDB, and the show's own web site are all correct.