Delightful

Rating: 9/10 (19 July 2013)

Ex-villain Gru, now settled into parenthood with the three girls, is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to identify a villain in partnership with Agent Lucy Wilde.
Much of the elements which made the first film such fun are here in this sequel, although we have lost Gru's development arc of softening from comic villain to sentimental father: here, he is already a sentimental father. But his arc develops further and the film, thankfully, goes exactly where you want it to go. Even more thankfully, it does so with a great deal of humour, colour and action on the way. The 3D is good and the voices are excellent.
And the minions are, again, wonderful as they take delight, at child level, in mild rudeness and slapstick violence.
This film is a delight - charming, very funny, and with a lot of heart. I preferred it to its predecessor.