I really liked it, very funny and great fun. Not as good as the first one.

Rating: 7/10 (9 July 2013)

DESPICABLE ME 2
It was a very funny film, but nowhere near as good as the original movie.
Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to track down a super villain who has stolen an entire research lab from the Arctic. Gru has to investigate this crime with his new partner, Lucy. Whilst all this is going on, his oldest daughter has started to find boys attractive which then leads Gru to anger and he has to do his investigations whilst watching his daughter with this new boy... and if that wasn't enough, his minions are getting kidnapped too.
The story was enjoyable, and the characters were brilliant. The thing I noticed about this film the most though, is they film makers knew that the minions were really popular from the original movie, so they made them more of the main characters in this one. I thought the minions had the funny parts and were the main advertising technique they used for the film. The only thing I was slightly disappointed with, was the really funny bits of the movie were shown in the trailer... there are other really good bits, but most of the them I had already seen.
The voice cast was quite impressive, but I never understood why. Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Benjamin Bratt, Mirander Cosgrove, Russell Brand, Ken Jeong & Steve Coogan are the voices. Why would the movie company pay so much more for famous people to use their voices, when they could clearly find someone unknown and the audience would not know the difference? Especially Steve and Russell... if I didn't already know that they did these voices, I would never had recognised them, so surely they could have found someone cheaper. But I don't mind... it's their money. I suppose it is just to draw in the crowd a bit more.
This movie is great for kids and will keep them quiet and entertained for the duration. Very funny & great fun.
I will give this film 7 out of 10.
Very good, but not as good as the first
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