Despicable Me (2010)
Last week, I mentioned that my wife likes light-hearted family-friendly movies most of the time. It helps keep her mood more positive, so I don't argue...in fact, I try to feed the need as much as possible, buying pretty much every Pixar film, as well as all 4 Shrek flicks, and various others. Now that the world of animated films has changed to nearly everyone doing Pixar-style computer-generated pieces, it is hard to know anymore what's good and what's bad. When this style was in its infancy, pretty much everything that came out was great because the studios did not waste any money on sub-standard fare. Soon enough, though, there were "lesser" CG animated films and it became hard to know what was going to work and what wasn't. I am happy to say that Despicable Me absolutely does work.
The story follows Gru, a villain who is always working to increase his standing and respect among his peers...and his acceptance by his mother. Gru (voiced by Steve Carrell) is falling to a new upstart villain and needs to find ways to beat the newcomer, so he adopts 3 cute little orphan girls to help his cause. I am sure you can see where this is going, and...no, this is not the most surprising storyline ever, but it is a lot of fun. Family-unfriendly actor, Russell Brand voices Gru's evil scientist partner, Dr. Nefario; but while Brand is famously crude, rude and someone you wouldn't want within 100 yards of your kids...he pulls it off very well.
Stars of the show, though, are the Minions. Hundreds of short, misshapen, yellow creatures that live to work for Gru and Nefario...and come to love the girls. They steal every scene they are in and leave you with the feeling of "I have got to get me some Minions." Quite of few of you reading this may have kids...in which case, you may have already seen this movie...in some cases a few dozen times. I was told by one of those parents that they love this movie. I did, too. After having fairly low expectations for it, I really enjoyed it and it will be added to our collection of great animated films sometime soon.
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