Best Of Villains Of 2009
Heroes are great, but sometimes it takes a badguy to reel the audience in. So, in the films of this year, who are the best villains you saw this year?
In my opinion, these are the best at being bad.
Dr. Facilier
"The Frog Princess"
Voiced by the amazing Keith David, Dr. Facilier will go down as one of the best and most entertaining Disney villains ever. The voice, eerie design, incredible movements (major props to the animation department), and great dialogue, this guy's a paint-by-numbers villain, and yet still finds a way to jazz it up. It also helps that he has one of the catchiest and best villain songs in years.
Nero
"Star Trek"
I was never a "Star Trek" fan, but man, was the recent movie good. Kirk, Spock, and the rest of the crew were fantastic characters, and with a cast like that, you need a great nemesis. Fortunately, they had to face Nero, a pissed off Romulan who is as mean as they come. But with this anger and intimidation comes a lack of words, a fact that makes Nero both threatening and exciting to view as he destroys planets as if they're plastic models. Galactus and Kahn would be proud of this welcomed addition to great movie villains.
Charles Muntz
A curse of Pixar villains are they're terrible luck of recognition. You hear more people mention Captain Hook and Maleficent than you do Hopper and Syndrome. Though Muntz will most likely suffer a similar fate, this does not change how good of an adversary he is. For a man well into his 90s, he's one tough guy. You will see very few men with a sword and rifle be even close to as scary as this guy is when he wields weapons. There's something just plain creepy in thinking about this man coming after you. And the scene where he realizes that the bird Kevin is friends with our heroes will give you chills every time you watch it.