Many of these moments involve my second favorite thing about "Despicable Me," Gru's minions. "Despicable Me 2" lags on occasion, but every time I found my attention waning, the filmmakers did something wicked to goose me. This potential Mommy subplot is designed to inject emotion into "Despicable Me 2." While it works for the most part (Agnes' big, expression-filled eyes are the animators' most glorious creations), nothing in the sequel comes as close to yanking my heartstrings as the moment when Gru, literally caught between the moon and New York City in the original, sees that pink ballet recital ticket floating in space. When Agnes sees Lucy, she correctly pegs that Gru has a thing for her. While Gru worries about Margo's love life, she and her sisters Agnes (Elsie Fisher) and Edith ( Dana Gaier) worry about his, even setting him up on vHarmony (or whatever that dating site is that caters to the wrong side of the law).
Gru even brings his freeze gun out of retirement to cool Antonio's raging hormones, though he aims it at the wrong parts of this lothario. Gru's amusingly unsuccessful (and rather mean) attempts to keep Margo from growing up have a familiar ring of disaster for any dad raising a daughter. Gru's suspicions about Eduardo increases tenfold when his eldest daughter Margo ( Miranda Cosgrove) feasts her eyes on Eduardo's teenage son Antonio ( Moises Arias). "Despicable Me 2" does offer a few flashes of what endeared me to its hero in the first place. Carrell's accented line readings are still a pleasure, but I wanted more of the old Gru's scheming. In fact, until the climax, everyone upstages Gru. Whether Eduardo is El Macho isn't important he brings much needed spark to "Despicable Me 2," upstaging Gru at every turn. His line readings are a blast, though some viewers might find Eduardo somewhat politically incorrect. Benjamin Bratt picks up the most over-the-top Hispanic accent since Tony Montana and runs a marathon with it. Al left the movie, but his accent apparently remained. Suspects include a hairdresser, whose appearance conjures up images of " Shampoo" recast with Paul Williams, and an extremely masculine Mexican restaurant owner whom Gru thinks bears strong resemblance to a bad guy named "El Macho." Since El Macho es muerte (his death scene will put hair on your chest), Gru is immediately suspicious.Īl Pacino was supposed to play Eduardo, the guy Gru thinks is El Macho.
Lucy believes the mastermind AVI seeks is one of the other store owners at the mall. Gru's new project will help his undercover operation as a vendor at the local mall. Nefario ( Russell Brand) to resign and take a position with a new villain.
DESPICABLE ME 2 USENETIC SERIES
Now retired, the only despicable act he is perpetrating on society is a series of horrific tasting jams and jellies. Lucy's idea of asking nicely is electrocuting Gru with a "lipstick taser" before tossing him into the trunk of her superspy car-slash-plane-slash-boat.īefore his Meet Cute with Lucy, Gru was living a boring, domesticated life. This act of vandalism attracts the attention of the AVI, an organization that tracks and reports the kind of villainy Gru partook in back in the days of "Despicable Me." The AVI sends out agent Lucy ( Kristen Wiig) to ask Gru to use his powers of villainous deduction to figure out who's behind these extreme demonstrations of magnetic personality. Almost everyone and everything is pulled comically into the sky and relocated, save for a port-a-potty and its terrified inhabitant. An entire intelligence team and their outpost is attacked by a huge horseshoe magnet straight out of that Warner Bros. The opening of "Despicable Me 2" is an example of its brash cleverness. You have a luxury I currently do not: You can look at the star rating above and see who won. So this review is a battle between Evil Film Critic Odie and Emotional Moviegoer Odie. These moments are so good I almost feel despicable for being undecided. On the "thumbs-up" side is a series of clever touches made with love and attention by cast and crew. On the "thumbs down" side, there's dissatisfaction with a returning hero who is far blander than his original incarnation he's been neutered by the one thing that made "Despicable Me"'s ending so satisfying. Here I sit on the fence between 2-1/2 and 3 stars, unsure of where I will fall. "Despicable Me 2" is as serviceable as it is unnecessary.
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