Right down to the closing-credits ‘audition' for their upcoming spin-off feature, the frantic antics of these critters are scarcely disguised as the film's raison d'être. The human activity, including Gru and Lucy's appealing but half-baked romance, is strictly to get us from A to, well, A. Youngsters won't mind. Their parents will be as charmed or annoyed – or, maybe, both – as they were the first time.