Despicable Me (2010)

Rating: 6/10 (14 December 2011)

It checks off a lot of animated film must-haves. Putting a villain as the lead would be more interesting if he was more villainous. Sure he steals things, pops balloons etc. but he is never totally evil. The closest he gets is simply not caring when he believes a child has died. This is also one of the funniest moments. He's more of an Ebeneezer Scrooge type character, than a fully blown villain. It has enough cute/funny characters to propel it along for an entertaining time, but extract these characters and you wouldn't have much to go on. The animation is nothing new, and is simplified in a lot of cases. The voice work is mostly spot-on, but what's with cinema's hate of orphanages?