Despicable Me

Released: 2010
Starring: Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand
Director: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
Running Time: 95 minutes


Well, you can certainly see a French sense of humor to this film.  It relies a lot on bathroom, immature humor, and just wasn't funny enough to make me laugh out loud.  I cracked a smile a few times though at the minions.

The run down:
Gru wants to be the worst most well known villain in the entire world.  He wasn't shown affection by his mother as a child and never got much of her attention or approval.  Who knows where his dad was, that wasn't explained.  Anyway, he needs to go to the bank to get a loan for his next big project, but meets with some resistance since he is getting older.  He needs to outdo the younger, more bad, Vector, who just stole one of Egypt's Pyramids.

Gru and his minions work together to try to steal the moon.  In the way are 3 orphaned children Gru decides to adopt to use as a cover to get into Vector's house and steal his shrink ray weapon.

I love Steve Carell and he did do a good job of voice acting.  The minions were my favorite part of the movie by far.  The animation was good and visually interesting, but this is no Cars, or A Bug's Life.

In the end, it shows how you can learn to love and accept people even if you didn't think you had any room in your heart for them.  A sappy, but formulaic cartoon - mainly for kids as adults will probably not like it as much as some wittier Pixar movies.

2 out of 5 movie ticket stubs for the minions and Steve Carell.