Light Bulb!

Rating: 6/10 (13 December 2010)

Light Bulb." It took a little time for the light bulb to turn on in "Despicable Me", but when it finally does it actually becomes a good film. The slow start almost ruined it for me but luckily the visuals were good enough to keep me intrigued while the directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud figured out where they were going with the movie. And I must say when they finally figured things out it completely turned the movie around for the better.
The movie has an all-star voice cast, but ironically the actors changed their voices so much that they are almost unrecognizable. This actually makes the characters memorable as themselves and not as the actors who voice them. Russell Brand who voices Gru's assistant Dr. Nefario is completely unrecognizable and I only knew it was him because of the credits. Even Will Arnett, who I find hilarious because of his deep raspy voice, was barely recognizable as voicing the bank manager Mr. Perkins. Steve Carell almost disappointed me with his vocal performance of Gru. The Russian accent he used for Gru was just okay and it seemed like it took him half the movie to get comfortable with the character. Luckily for him the animation of Gru was so good that the character would have been funny voiced by anyone.
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