In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by a small army of minions, we discover Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon. (Yes, the moon!) Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential Dad. The world’s greatest villain has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes. —IMDb
Pretty bland and indifferent kids film. The Minions were easily the best part, but they were sadly shoved to the background while uninspired "heroes" took the foreground. The only think I really liked about this was that I downloaded the "Best Buy Movie Mode" app that allowed me to sync it with the film in the theaters so at the end, when the Minions are speaking nonsense, it would decode what they were saying.
We've already got entries going on the two most interesting films opening today, Jacques Rivette's Around a Small Mountain (here) and
Title: Despicable Me
Year: 2010
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Animation
Director:
Pierre Coffin
Chris Renaud
Writers:
Ken Daurio
Sergio Pablo
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