The Human Touch

Rating: 8/10 (1 April 2012)

Despicable Me Has some issues, but it's 80% amazing.
It touched me. And I don't remember Toy Story 3 provoking the same emotion or not even an emotion at all.
Visual art is clear and simple. At least at a first look. Because if you give it more attention you can see amazing lights, shadows and reflexes effects. Faces expressions are also pretty well expressive. Even when they're simple like moving half a lip. You can feel what the character are feeling. This is hard to get even from an good actor...
Soundtrack and other sound effect are also good. All voice acting are pretty well interpreted. Characters come alive.
But the best part are those woompa loompas Gru's little helpers. They're are really funny in every scene they appear. And it's amazing they could be design so funny looking just like yellow capsules. NICE! It's simple and they walk funny, express funny, and talk funny.
But Despicable Me misses on balance. If by one side, Gru doesn't take too little or too long to be attracted by the 3 little girls, the plot seems to forget very often the focus on how bad he is and his quest to steel the moon. Another issue is the way he does that could be better worked, because he spend just 5 to 10 movie minutes to do so.
Once he becomes a better person, everyone around him becomes Mr Nice Guy too, and that's boring.
Despicable Me is really a good movie and pretty well made, but some little issues takes away the chances for me to rate it as a 10.