Absolute Minion fun the second time around.

Rating: 10/10 (26 November 2013)

"Despicable Me 2" succeeds as one of the best animation sequels of the year, bolstered with a great voice actor ensemble reprising the role of Steve Carrell as Gru, the uncanny daddy dangerous, and his little cute girls Margot –played by Miranda Cosgrove–, Edith –Dana Gaier–, and Agnes –by Elsie Fisher–. Of course, the Minions are back and even crazier and gibberish, it's an absolute howl.
The film offers vast improvement from its predecessor. It will always mold an impression to its general patronage for it's seldom they encounter such animation feature which is not from the hands of Disney- Pixar or Dreamworks. And now that the sequel has come out, Despicable Me 2 is even funnier and sure get your money's worth.
A top-secret headquarters called AVL, or the Anti-Villain League by Agent Lucy Wilde –voiced by Kristen Wiig – and the league director Silas Ramsbottom –voiced by Steve Coogan– hire Gru. The investigation leads to a mutation serum that make creatures go purple and berserk. So Gru and Lucy's job together is to locate the remaining serum.
Another character is Eduardo –voiced by Benjamin Bratt–, whom Gru suspects as the El-Macho. Whether he has the serum or not, he may still be recognizable enough to be villainy as Gru suggests. Benjamin Bratt as the El-Macho is unrecognizable at first because of his Mexican accent, and so is Gru's mad scientist assistant Dr. Nefario –played by Russell Brand– who's voice as a grumpy old man may seem odd but acceptable.
Despicable Me 2 works on its slacker humors involving Gru with his lanky stature and pointy nose and his spy gadgets. Aside from the Minions, the film made sure his jokey dialogues and the gibberish language of the Minions are sensible. Steve Carrell still has the impending voice-over as Gru. The irony of his tone in the character makes me laugh just as I did in the first film, and it still doesn't spoil my liking.
The new characters on board such as Kristen Wiig as Lucy gives an elusive improvement in Gru's anti-social but odd humor as a loner. Wiig is the perfect voice-over for the character and matches Gru to be the exact partner, better yet the perfect lovey-dovey. However, Ken Jeong is the odd one out in the mix. His character as the wig man Floyd is pretty thin unlike the other ones. I'm obliged that he were able to voice act in the film though.
Finally, the Minions are here to stay. They look adorable akin to the previous film with the same babbling offbeat and gibberish dialogue. There're too many too count, but I didn't care much as long as plenty of them keep the laughter piling up.
Kudos to production company Illumination Mac Guff (the company behind the VFX of the film), if they're planning for a Despicable 3, I don't see 'why not?' If this animation feature became of a franchise, looks like I will be counting Minions to laugh with. But as for now, I'm telling you that Despicable Me 2 is even funnier and affable to be one of the best animation films of the year.