Brad Pitt wants his kids to think he’s cooler than Spider-Man...........

Now this has got to be one of the fun aspects of being an actor: you get to impress your kids with your work! These pictures are of Brad Pitt taking his sons Maddox and Pax to the ‘Megamind’ premiere, his new animated movie (co-starring Will Farrell and Tina Fey). It sounds like he has a goal, judging from what he told People.

“Spider-Man is big in our family,” Pitt, 46, told PEOPLE at the New York premiere of the animated superhero film Megamind on Wednesday. “The kids think he’s the coolest. If there was one superhero they would want me to play, that would be the one. I’d score big with them.”

But since Spider-Man’s already been cast, Brad took on the role of Metro Man in ‘Megamind’ instead.

“I’m sneaking in the boys tonight,” said Pitt, mentioning too that Zahara, 5, Shiloh, 4, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 2 (who are “talking a lot and singing”) are in Budapest, where their mom Angelina Jolie is directing her first feature. “I think they will like it, but they are tough critics. Will Ferrell is very popular in our house, so the boys will get a kick out of that.”
He added: “Hopefully they will think Dad’s really cool and better than Spider-Man.”

Brad admitted that his kids are at the forefront of his mind when he’s choosing roles these days.

“Every role we choose now, we choose it for the kids,” he says. “Will the kids like it? Will they like it when they are young adults? Or is this a good location for the family? That’s it.”