Hyde in the transformations and creation of the 'evil' minions. This brings us on to the set-pieces in the film, which are bigger in scale than the original and are marginally better-executed. There's always the temptation with a bigger budget to increase the physical scale without matching the emotional or narrative stakes, but the film does just about enough to stop things getting out of hand.
Certainly the set-pieces like this help to disguise some of the film's narrative shortcomings. While its plot has more legs than the first film, certain sections still feel a little laboured or drawn out. The opening sequence at the birthday party, the scene in the wig store and some of the scenes with Agnes being hit on could have been slightly trimmed, with Steve Carell becoming a little too freeform in the first instance and the material not being strong enough on its own to carry the others.
This brings us onto the voice casting, which is generally very good. Carell and Russell Brand both continue to impress in their roles, with both performers reining in their wilder, more indulgent aspects and taking their characters on just a little bit.
Wiig is very funny as Lucy Wilde, occasionally coming across as a Saturday Night Live show-off but mostly playing it cool and coming off as likeable. When it comes to the young girls, however, the results are more of a mixed bag.
Miranda Cosgrove, who first came to prominence in School of Rock, is very adept as Margo, and Elsie Fisher continues to be cute and fun as Agnes.
But middle child Edith has very little to do, with Dana Gaier getting the lines that nobody elses wants to say and not making very much of them. Having her as a tomboy is all well and good, but the film also makes the curious decision to make her obsessed with weapons. The visuals of Despicable Me 2 are pretty pleasing on the eye. It retains the bright colour palette of the original, though with a more consciously pantomime or comic-book feel to take account of the villain's personality.
The characters still have a balloony or rubbery quality to them, but this mainly serves to benefit the slapstick rather than making it difficult to bond with the characters. It's still not up there with the best of PIXAR or Dreamworks, but neither are these aspects overbearing and distracting.
Despicable Me 2 is a marginal improvement on its predecessor, having better and funnier jokes structured around a more successful plot. While it still falls short of the standard set by PIXAR, being neither as memorable nor as original as it could have been, it still succeeds as a pleasing, light-hearted diversion with a number of good performances. One only wonders whether the Minions spin-off due out next year will be able to sustain this momentum. Daniel M Super Reviewer.
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More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. While Gru, the ex-supervillain is adjusting to family life and an attempted honest living in the jam business, a secret Arctic laboratory is stolen.
The Anti-Villain League decides it needs an insider's help and recruits Gru in the investigation. Together with the eccentric AVL agent, Lucy Wilde, Gru concludes that his prime suspect is the presumed dead supervillain, El Macho, whose his teenage son is also making the moves on his eldest daughter, Margo. Seemingly blinded by his overprotectiveness of his children and his growing mutual attraction to Lucy, Gru seems on the wrong track even as his minions are being quietly kidnapped en masse for some malevolent purpose.
More minions. More despicable. Rated PG for rude humor and mild action. Did you know Edit. The boy is the same one that Gru made cry with a popping balloon in the beginning of the first Despicable Me Goofs When Lucy is tazing Gru he drops his freeze ray but when it shows her trying to pick him up it is gone.
In a May article, Deadline reported that the studio had shifted to a remote-work setup with all aspects of development, production, and marketing being carried out as they were when everyone went to their respective offices. Like all previous entries in the Despicable Me franchise, the duo of Heitor Pereira and Pharrell Williams will once again be composing Minions: The Rise of Gru , but the fifth movie in the series will also feature an additional producer helping out with the music.
There is still quite a bit of time before we all get to see Minions: The Rise of Gru for ourselves, but July will be here before you know it. Philip grew up in Louisiana not New Orleans before moving to St. Louis after graduating from Louisiana State University-Shreveport.
When he's not writing about movies or television, Philip can be found being chased by his three kids, telling his dogs to stop yelling at the mailman, or yelling about professional wrestling to his wife. Best of all, it features lots of minion mischief, which guarantees plenty of laughs. But what it doesn't have is an edge. Coffin and Renaud and returning screenwriters Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio haven't managed to come up with a dastardly plot to rival the shrinking and stealing of the moon from the previous film.
Stephen Holden of The New York Times gave the film two and a half stars out of five, saying "It is consistently diverting and so cute you'll want to pet it. Yet it is also weightless and lacks a center. But it's not enough just to trot out legions of minions and cobble together a plot. Audiences deserve more imagination and inventiveness than this wan recycling. Adults will just regret the way that Despicable Me 2 betrays the original film's devotion to bad-guy gaiety.
Sara Stewart of the New York Post gave the film three out of four stars, saying "Sure, it's not as novel as the first time we were here, but directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud stay true to the clever, slapstick vibe.
But the filmmakers so clearly love working on these characters, their creative joy is infectious. James Rocchi of MSN Movies gave the film four out of five stars, saying "Heartfelt and hilarious, smart and silly, action-packed but never violent, Despicable Me 2 is that rare sequel that outshines its beginnings.
For kids, revisiting these jokes is a howl. Pinkie promise. Pols of Time gave the film a positive review, saying "As a sequel it stands level with the first film, and may have the edge on it.
A fart joke in 3-D may not be three times as wacky, but the high spirits of Despicable Me 2 are irresistible fun. Dowd of The A. Club gave the film a 'C' grade, saying "What's missing—and this was the crucial component of part one—is a little sour to undercut the sweet.
Like its protagonist, a bad guy gone boringly good, Despicable Me 2 has no edge. It's fatally nice and insufficiently naughty. Structural issues aside, it's impossible not to like these characters, all of them, rendered with love, always entertaining even when the story around them doesn't make much sense.
Despicable Me 2 is the twenty-sixth highest-grossing film , the fourth highest-grossing film, [] the sixth highest-grossing animated film, [] the seventh highest-grossing 3-D film, [] and the second highest-grossing Illumination Entertainment film. Its opening-day gross stands as third highest for an animated feature, [] and the seventh highest among films opening on a Wednesday.
Despicable Me 2 is the twenty-seventh highest-grossing film, the third highest-grossing animated film, the fourth highest-grossing Universal film, [] and the third highest-grossing film. A prequel feature film titled Minions , featuring the Minions as the main characters, was released on July 10, A sequel, titled Despicable Me 3 , was released on June 30, Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio returned to write the screenplay for the film.
Steve Carell and Steve Coogan also voiced new characters: Gru's long-lost twin brother Dru, and his courteous butler, Fritz.
Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud reprised their roles as the Minions , respectively. Famous 5 Ned's Newt TV series. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Despicable Me 2. History Talk 0. Total length:. Main article s : Minions film. Main article s : Despicable Me 3. British Board of Film Classification. May 24, Retrieved May 27, Retrieved on July 2, Box Office Mojo.
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