Despicable meaning vile and deserving of hate and contempt. Does that sum up this movie??? Read on to find out!
Now here’s a pleasant
surprise. To be honest, I didn’t really
enjoy the first movie. The lead was
bland, the kids were annoying and the bad guy was really irritating. Released around the same time as Megamind,
another animated movie about a villain turned good, I found that movie to be superior
on pretty much every count.
Either my expectations were
very low because I didn’t enjoy the original or the original was so lame that
it was easy for this second movie to surpass it. Whatever the case, Despicable Me 2 does just
that, surpasses the original.
Steve Carell returns as Gru,
the unlikely hero. Continuing on from
the original, Gru is now a super villain turned super daddy. The kids are still a handful but he appears
to be enjoying it. The same cannot be
said of his colleague Dr. Nefario (Russell Brand). Once a mad genius making robots and the like,
he is now assisting Gru in his attempts to infiltrate the food and beverage
industry with a delectable selection of sumptuous, mouth watering jams and
jellies.
But it’s not all happy
families. A dangerous chemical has been
stolen from a top-secret research facility.
Government and spy officials have no choice but to enlist the help of
Gru to track down the evil mastermind who just happens to be working out of his
local shopping mall. What a
coincidence! Throw into the mix some
teenage love shenanigans, combined with his own dating woes, and Gru has his
hands pretty full. Thankfully he has
help from Special Agent Lucy (Kristen Wiig) and of course, last but not least,
Gru’s trusted minions.
I still believe Gru and the
kids are nothing that special as characters and neither is the story. What success this film may enjoy comes purely
on the backs of the minions, voiced in gibberish by directors Pierre Coffin and
Chris Renaud. Random, cute and funny,
the minions carry this movie. I wasn’t
really a fan of the minions in the first movie and they don’t really do
anything outstanding even in this movie but after a while you can’t help but smile
when they come on the screen and do something silly. They have much more screen-time this time round and, judging from the response, the Minions movie due out next year
should be very successful. I do have to
comment that I was slightly disappointed by the lack of concern shown by Gru when
some of his minions appeared to come into harm's way and went missing. This retracted slightly
from the purported friendship between Gru and his minions giving the impression that he didn't really care about them that much. A small gripe but it annoyed me.
This is pretty mindless
entertainment but it is entertainment nonetheless, which is more than can be
said for a lot of flicks out right now.. Cough.. White House Down.. Cough..
Check it out!
Rating 3.5 out of 5
Bobby
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