This is just a perfect animated film

Rating: 10/10 (13 April 2019)

It has something for the whole family, and there is no wasted space in it. The story is pretty simple - There is a self named "super villain" named Gru who wants to steal the moon, but his plan is being thwarted by another wannabe super villan - Vector. When Gru sees Vector's weakness for cookies, he figures his ticket into Vector's well armed castle to steal back a needed weapon are the three little orphan girls who sold him the cookies in the first place when they come back to deliver the cookies. So he has to adopt them in a hurry.
You can pretty much tell how this is going to play out from the beginning. Gru is not THAT bad of a bad guy. In fact, well placed flashbacks show it was negligent parenting by his mom that likely made him want to do big showy things in the first place. How bad could he be if he is taking care of dismissive mom in her old age?
So many of the characters are stereotypical - Vector the nerd villain, the evil morbidly obese banker, the older scientist working with Gru who gets confused about what kind of invention he is supposed to be building, and the three little girls who act delightfully on key for their ages.
The fun is in all of the one liners, the character development, and the minions. Before Universal Lucasized them into the main point of the franchise, the minions were delightful if unintelligible comic relief. Highly recommended.