Despicable Me 2: You Barely Expected Something Like This

There is always an incentive to not growing up. And of course there are its own drawbacks of being despised by the society for being inconvenient to them by differing from their ways. Overall, there is always a need for ways in which one can escape the mundane. The brains today have gone so stale to routine instructions, that to strike a chord, satire is one of the very few resorts left. 

This then explains why animated movies play such a huge role in the movie industry. Not only is it pleasing to the eye and a much creative arena, animated movies provide the audience with a portal to escape. I know that this is a very common thing to state but then let us appreciate the fact that a huge audience of these movies is people in their 20s’. Not going much into demographics and mass psychology. Let’s get down to the adorable deal.

The Intro

This is something you usually expect to be awesome. It is necessary after all to build a gripping premise for a movie to come. But boy can an intro get any better. They knew people are there for the minions and they threw those little yellow devils of cuteness on the screen right in the first frame where the logo of “Illumination Entertainment” (the production house) comes in. My friend and I were there together and from that very frame, we lost it and the next time I took a breath was when I got up for popcorn. This is just to say that intros to a movie do not get any better these days. As expected from the continuation of the last movie, our protagonist Gru has been shown to have given up all the evil work and has settled with the three girls (Agnes, Lucy and Margo) living a peaceful life using his previous resources to engage in an enterprise of bakery. Blah blah blah.
Bottom line: Adorable setup for a yet to come amazing story.

I give it a 9 on 10 for showing something really great, though clichéd yet synthetically appeasing to the eye.

The Plot

If you’d ask me how the plot is, I won’t have much to say. The usual part where the villain is going haywire and secret services called for an ex con-man to settle the deal and the con refuses cause he now has a happy family but the services just won’t let go cause they are the typical arses we know them to be. And then there is the attractive and yet quirky female secret agent/partner who will end up falling in love with the protagonist. Really. It’s all as predictable as the hand of the government in a scam these days. Don’t go to watch a great plot line. If Nolan has been your deal across the days and if the mundane cuteness does not attract you. Stay away!

For the awh! So predictable scenes and the overused stereotype in movies I give it a 6 on 10 for the plot.

The Characters

A total stellar in this section. The movie has everything it takes to make a character rich. Everything that you want to form a sketch for a cartoon. The ethical inclinations of each person in the movie can well be extrapolated by the viewer into any circumstance that they can think of which really pays off for keeping the cinematic part of the movie uplifted especially after the predictable plot upset. And while we are talking about the characters, the minions steal the show every time they show even half of their body on screen. The makes have done a great job with them. Each and every move, expression and unique perspective is put into play. All that you can possible do is laugh off the edge of your seat as bubbles of sugar and love burst in your tummy with rainbows above your head. There is always this doubt as to why would a super villain invent such adorable and cute looking helpers. But trust me. When they aren’t on screen, you’ll literally miss them.
To add to their richness and diversity, Agnes’s character has been portrayed beautifully. The girl is an absolute angle, again as the stereotype of the youngest of the lot goes and yet, her dialogues set her apart from any other toddler seen on screen.
Gru still maintains the panache of a villain within a changed man. His class sustains, although they have shown his frustration to be a bit too not like him at one point, you can grant them that much.
As for the rest of them people, their work is only made easy.

For this amazing development, this one takes a 9 on 10 for characters.

The Screenplay

Again, a weak plotline does not leave much room for a screenplay to evolve within a predictable sequence. But then again, as there are upsets, there are bigger surprises. The best thing that this movie does is filling in the gaps. While you do not have to bother about thinking where the story is going, your mind has a lot of room left for analyzing the current scenes and that is where all the magic is happening. And quite so, that is why this movie is the one that just cannot have spoilers. Everything good about it is between the story lines. It is only when you go to the movie and let it engulf you, will you enjoy the comforts of comedy. So on this most rare of occasions, we have a movie that has fared badly on a plotline but amazing in screenplay comparatively.

I give it a 7.5 on 10 for all that it pushed for.

The Special Effects

Technology, Art and not to forget the expertise of the Artists who make these movies has grown way too much for us to say anything about the special effects. The CGI looks spectacularly well blend. The theme is maintained constant across various designs of shots in the movie and we do see reasonable amount of detail though not as much as one would expect from a great animation. But then the point is to keep you focused on the main deal and not let you squander off anywhere.

For the very integrity of design, story and the fabric of the animation I give it a 8.5 on 10 for this.

The Feels

This is where we sum it all up. I have never seen a movie so rich in content of humor. It lets you loose ends and forget worries while you laugh your rear end off in a plethora of humor. My 130 bucks worth of tickets could not have been more worthwhile for an animated movie. Everything just seemed to fall in place. They have taken the daily life and successfully transformed it into a visual stellar. Seldom do you find movies like these. 

For making me happy after a long time, for keeping the head held high for animated movies and for helping people realize how important it is to never grow up, I rate the movie an overall (averaging scores in each section) 8 on 10.

That makes it move into our category of must watch before dying type of movies.