A Good Story And It Left Me With Tears In My Eyes From Laughing

Rating: 9/10 (5 July 2013)

I am truly delighted to see that this movie gets a good rating. So many good animated films get low ratings I suspect because adults just don't get them. Obviously people are getting "Despicable Me 2." I just left the theatre not too long ago, and it's one of the few times that I've had a movie leave with with tears in my eyes from laughing. It's a very funny movie - one that gets funnier as it moves along; one whose funniest moments in my opinion (and from the laughter in the theatre) came at the very end. It's a tremendously worthy sequel to the original, which was also very good. In fact, I think I enjoyed this more than I did the original.
The villain Gru is back once again, but this time he's more of an anti- villain. He's busy playing daddy to the three little girls he adopted in the first movie, and he's turned his crime lab into a jam and jelly making factory. But an unknown villain appears on the scene threatening the world, and Gru is recruited by the "Anti-Villain League" to use his villainous expertise to find out who it is. He's partnered with Lucy, who - predictably enough - becomes a love interest for him. But somehow the "romance" doesn't distract from the story the way they so often do. It added to the story. It gave us a better sense of Gru - who he was and where he came from. It worked surprisingly well.
And, of course, there are the minions. All sorts of minions. Everywhere and all over and in almost every scene it seemed. And they're just as funny as they were in the first movie as well.
The best part of this is that it's not just a cartoon, and it's not just for kids, and it's not a weak sequel. It has a story to it; a plot that actually works and keeps the viewer surprisingly interested all the way through. Everybody involved with this deserves credit for putting out a winner. My one piece of advice is not to simply get up and leave when the credits start to roll! (9/10)