Written by: Jennifer Bay, Editor
The colorful sequel to one of Universal DreamWorks’s most loved movies is finally here, with more minions than ever! Despicable Me 2 shows us what happens when an evil villain leaves the game to be a dad. Does it live up to the original?
We see that Gru (voiced by Steve Carrell) has officially adopted the three adorable girls from the first film: Margo, Edith and Agnes. They’re all living happily ever after, complete with large, frilly, unicorn filled birthday parties (for Agnes, of course). Almost immediately, though, Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to stop one of his former villainous co-workers. He’s paired with Lucy (voiced by the ever amusing Kristin Wiig) to spy on the possible criminals to figure out which one is engineering a compound called PX-41, a formula that can turn living things into crazy killing machines. Apparently, all the villains work in a mall, so Gru is assigned to run a cupcake shop there, in order to be closer to all the evil (ALL THE EVIL!). From there, the plot mostly revolves around Gru falling for Lucy – oh, and attempting to keep his oldest daughter Margo (voiced by Miranda Cosgrove) from dating Antonio, the son of one of the possible baddies, in true adorable over-protective father fashion.
Who WOULDN’T want him?
I loved this, as I loved the first Despicable Me. Hoewever, there was some “bite” missing. We shouldn’t compare it to the first film, but it’s impossible not to, since it basically involves all the same characters. In the first, we have a villain trying to steal the moon. In the second, we have an ex-villain trying to get a date. In the first film, Gru’s dog Kyle (still love that name!) is a vicious little due who would have ripped your arm off. In the second, he’s been transformed into the girls’ plaything, even dressed as a dragon for a “knight” to destroy at Agnes’s party. I loved seeing so much of the minions, though, so what it lacked in the whole “comedic malice vs love” idea from the first film it kind of made up for with so much yellow minion-ness!
Just looking at this makes me giggle.
It still has the humor we all loved from the first movie, and has an added romantic value that some filmmakers seem to believe we always need in order to care about a movie. Ah, well – it’s a solid sequel, at the end of the day. Your kids will love it, and you’ll enjoy it, too!
Rating: 
ComicsOnline gives Despicable Me 2 3.5 out of 5 Gru-fairies.
Oh. So the reason I loved it was literally a tagline.
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