A marginally adequate brain-off entertainment

Rating: Null/10 (28 June 2013)

This animation is about the super villain Gru, who is recruited to fight another villain's plot to take over the world.
"Despicable Me 2" has very cute characters doing silly things, which is fun to watch at times. The minions are so silly that they got me chuckling many times. However, the charm of the film ends there. Maybe I am not the right age or the right demographic, but I find "Despicable Me 2" just a little to silly. It is a simple hero versus villain film, with very little to engage the adult viewers. The emotional subplot the search for a mother is just too thin to make any emotional impact.
In recent years, animations are so good that viewers are completely spoilt. We expect a visually appealing film with fun, jokes and emotional subplots, plus an obligatory moral lesson. "Despicable Me 2" might have been a good film fifteen years ago, but it is only a marginally adequate brain-off entertainment for the high standards nowadays.