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Despicable Me (2010) 7.7
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Metascore: 72/100
Reviews: 285 user | 297 critic | 35 from Metacritic.com When a criminal mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme, he finds their love is profoundly changing him for the better. |
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Cast
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| Steve Carell | ... |
Gru
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| Jason Segel | ... |
Vector
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| Russell Brand | ... |
Dr. Nefario
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| Julie Andrews | ... |
Gru's Mom
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| Will Arnett | ... |
Mr. Perkins
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| Kristen Wiig | ... |
Miss Hattie
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| Miranda Cosgrove | ... |
Margo
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| Dana Gaier | ... |
Edith
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| Elsie Fisher | ... |
Agnes
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| Pierre Coffin | ... | ||
| Chris Renaud | ... |
Dave the Minion
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| Jemaine Clement | ... |
Jerry the Minion
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| Jack McBrayer | ... |
Carnival Barker /
Tourist Dad
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| Danny McBride | ... |
Fred McDade
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| Mindy Kaling | ... |
Tourist Mom
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Plot Summary
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Plot Synopsis
Storyline
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, 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. Written by Universal Pictures
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
9 July 2010 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Mi villano favorito See more »Box Office
Budget:
$69,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$56,397,125 (USA) (9 July 2010)Gross:
$251,501,645 (USA) (14 January 2011)Company Credits
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Technical Specs
Runtime:
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1.85 : 1
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Vector: Actually, I'm holding on to them a little longer.
Gru: No!
Vector: Oh yeah! Unpredictable!
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Did You Know?
Trivia
In Gru's lair, the NBC logo can be seen on the top of the Jumbotron. See more »Goofs
When Gru returns home from stealing coffee and a pastry from a coffee shop, he gets out of his vehicle and speaks with his neighbor. His hands are empty as he talks, and he immediately steps toward his house after the conversation. The pastry appears inside his house in the next scene where Gru is sitting in his living room. See more »Quotes
Gru: [after giving Vector the moon] Now the girls.Vector: Actually, I'm holding on to them a little longer.
Gru: No!
Vector: Oh yeah! Unpredictable!
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DESPICABLE ME is not an animated feature. It is a flat-out feature-length cartoon, a rare bird in the field, and the first really successful one since THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE. If anything, it's better.
Animated features are typically fantasies, taking us to places and stories that cannot be filmed in live action. They can be dramatic, fantastic, inspirational, terrifying, all the range of emotions. Cartoons are different. Cartoons inhabit a universe that is a cross between Krazy Kat and the Keystone Kops. Walk off a cliff and you don't fall until you notice. Fall a thousand yards and hit the ground and you wheeze like an accordion until the next scene, when you're fine. Cartoons are silly.
And this one is very very silly, from Steve Carell's indecisively Eastern European-voiced Grue to Julie's Andrews who, as his mom, sounds like Beaky Buzzard's mother in Bugs Bunny shorts, to the seemingly indistinguishable minions who talk like Chip and Dale on helium -- Grue knows all their names. A modern supervillain has to have people skills.
The gags are all spot on in relevance and impeccably timed. The plot advances at a good clip and even the heartwarming aspects of the plot never descend into mawkishness -- the little girls whom Grue adopts to advance his plan to steal the Moon are endearing but frequently annoying.
I saw the 3-D version and the question arises, should you spend the extra money to see it in 3-D? I don't think so -- but then I am happy looking at stuff in black and white and even silent films. You may get a little more out of the 3-D version, particularly the credit extras. But that's up to you. See it in whatever form you like, but see it.