Indespicable Gru and The Three Orphans

Rating: Null/10 (23 March 2011)

Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud's 'Despicable Me' is a charming, colourful and funny little film that centers around a scientist and three little orphan girls (whom he adopts...with a hidden agenda of course). Now the animation and voice casting is first rate. It seems to be a trend to cast a host of big actors to voice the characters and here it seems to have worked. The animation too is very detailed and colourful.
The jokes are quite funny and they provide some great laugh out loud moments. I only found the story to be too familiar. In other words, it's been done to death. Thus, pretty much every forthcoming moment of it is predictable. The vivacious characters make up somewhat for the lack of novelty in the story. Gru, his minions and the three girls (though the littlest one was annoying at times) are very likable.
If only the story wasn't too obvious, this could have been right up there with the Pixar movies. Yet, it's the animation, humour and the characters that stand out in 'Despicable Me' and make it worth watching. One ought to watch it through the rolling credit in order to not miss out on some more funny moments.