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Sunday 10 November 2013

"DESPICABLY FUNNY 2!"

I can't remember the last time I found myself laughing so hard while watching an animation, and the sequel of Despicable me, which was definitely hilarious, did the trick! The inclusion of new characters like Lucy Wilde, an agent of an undercover spy agency called the AVL (Anti-villain League), and Eduardo Perez, a Mexican restaurant owner who is suspected to be a former villain known as El Macho, this animation film is guaranteed to have you laughing your socks off.

The Anti-Villain League (AVL) recruits former super-villain and main character of the animation movie Gru, now a devoted father to Margo, Edith and Agnes, to find out which evil person using a mysterious giant magnet vehicle to steal a secret laboratory near the Arctic Circle The lab is said to contain a powerful mutagen known as PX-41 which can make indestructible and extremely aggressive monsters out of living organisms. 


Gru reluctantly partners with undercover AVL agent Lucy Wilde, and together they search The Paradise Shopping Mall, where they are given a bakery called "Bake My Day" as their headquarters. Gru suspects Mexican restaurant owner Eduardo Perez of being a super-villain called "El Macho", a bad guy who became Gru's inspiration for a villain who supposedly died after sky surfing a TNT-laden shark into the center of an active volcano (you gotta listen to the way Gru talks about this guy with so much excitement and adoration...oh sorry, I shut up now).

If there is anything this film has that many have failed to achieve over the year, is fun! Very laid back and simple comedy and the audience will also be thrilled by watching Gru's gibberish speaking minions just being naughty with each other. Even though Gru is a former villain, He becomes very overprotective of the girls he adopted in part one of the film, especially Margo who has a crush on Eduardo perez's son, Anthonio. Ironically, this expresses a touchy representation of a father and daughter relationship.


Despicable Me 2 is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated action comedy film and the sequel to the 2010 animated film Despicable Me. Produced by Illumination Entertainment, both films are directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, and written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio. Steve Carell, Russell Brand, and Miranda Cosgrove reprise their roles as Felonious Gru, Dr. Nefario and Margo. 

Despicable Me 2 has received generally positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 75% approval rating with an average rating of 6.7/10 based on 165 reviews. The website's consensus reads, "Despicable Me 2 offers plenty of eye-popping visual inventiveness and a number of big laughs." Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 62 based on 39 reviews. The film earned an "A" from audiences polled by CinemaScore.With a budget of $76 million, the film became the most profitable film in the 100 year history of Universal Studios. As of November 4, 2013, Despicable Me 2 has grossed $364,800,590 in North America and $547,000,000 in other countries, for a worldwide total of $911,800,590.

It is the twenty-seventh highest-grossing film, the fifth highest-grossing animated film, the second highest-grossing 2013 film (behind Iron Man 3), the highest-grossing 2013 animated film, the highest-grossing Illumination Entertainment film, and the second highest-grossing Universal Studios film (behind Jurassic Park). 
The film was theatrically released in the United States on July 3, 2013. 

A spin-off film, Minions, focusing mainly on the little yellow henchmen before they met Gru, is set to be released on July 10, 2015.

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