Lovely

Rating: 8/10 (26 April 2015)

Gru thought he was the worst villain in the world and he enjoyed punishing people who got in his way even children. One day when he came back home, his old friend Dr. Nefario told him someone had stolen the pyramid, which enraged him, and he came downstairs to his secret lab. He told the minions, his yellow robot helpers, he was a bit upset about the missing pyramid and declared he would steal the moon as his crime of the century. But Dr. Nefario worried about the lack of funding. Gru went to the Bank of Evil and wanted to borrow money from Mr. Perkins, the owner of the bank. However, Mr. Perkins said he was too old to complete his plan unless he could steal the shrink ray first. Mr. Perkins also told him he preferred to support those young villains who were faster and stronger like the guy in orange on the sofa outside named Vector, who just stole the pyramid. Gru used his freezing gun to freeze Vector when he left.
Gru flew to East Asia with two minions and stole the shrink ray successfully. But on the way back home, Vector came and stole the shrink ray from Gru bringing it back to his fortress. Gru surveyed many times outside Vector's fortress but failed to get inside. One day he found three girls who sold cookies to Vector could easily get inside. He thought it would be a good chance and decided to adopt the three girls from Miss Hattie's House of Girls. He pretended to be a dentist and said something in Spanish which Miss Hattie thought meant she was beautiful. Miss Hattie was happy and gave him the girls. The girls did not like him at first because he did not look a father and was ugly. He asked Dr. Nefario to invent cookie robots and the girls to deliver them to Vector. The girls insisted they had to go to the dance class first. In the dance class, Agness gave Gru a ticket to the dance performance they would be in. After the class, Gru sent the girls to Vector's house and stole the shrink ray successfully.
On their way back home, the three girls wanted to go to the theme park and Gru thought it was a good place to abandon them. However the staff said he could not leave his daughters on the roller-coaster alone. His agenda failed and he had to play with the girls all the day. He began getting well with the girls. The girls also started to like him a bit. When he arrived home, he showed the shrink ray to Mr. Perkins when the girls appeared on the screen. Mr. Perkins refused to fund Gru and called his son Vector angrily to show the shrink ray. Vector found he was deceived and wanted to revenge. At the same time, Gru told the minions they would have no money and could not go to the moon. Agnes was sad and gave Gru her savings, three coins, which inspired other minions to chip in. Then Gru got enough money to build the rocket.
Dr. Nefario began to build the rocket while Gru was accompanying the girls. He wanted to put off the launching date because it coincided with the dancing performance. Dr. Nefario was angry with it and called Miss Hattie telling her the truth. Miss Hattie came and fetched the girls. Gru lost the girls sadly and the girls also left the house grudgingly. Then Gru flew to the moon on time and used shrink ray to steal the moon successfully. He went back in a hurry but found the girls had been kidnapped by Vector. At that time, Dr. Nefario realized the moon would return to its original size immediately and piloted a plane to save Gru and the girls. Finally the girls were saved by Gru and Vector was sent to the moon.
Gru was a real father now and he wrote a puppet book for the girls describing his love.
In my eyes, Gru was not a really bad person and can be a good father. His mother always ignored his effort when he was young. Gru made his efforts to become a villain so that his mom would be proud of him. It seems that Gru was a lovely person and eager to be loved. After being alone with the children for some time, he began to like them. Though he was unwilling to go to the theme park in the beginning, he was really happy when he came back home with the three kids. He read books to the kids, made special meals for them, and wanted to put off his plan that he had planned to the moon since he was a little boy. There are so much evidence that Gru can be a good father. It is a story about how children's love changed a "villain."