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Animation – Despicable Me!

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Refreshingly we have a studio that is bold enough to make a super villain the lead character in a film, especially an animation for children. Let me introduce you the the very excellent new animation in 3D of course  “Despicable Me”. This is a ploy that plays on the notion that children are more fascinated with the villain in a film than they are a goody two shoes superhero.

“Despicable Me” is the first but will not even be the last animated film this year to place a super villain in the lead. Later this year Will Ferrell will voice headline another evil-doer story, “Megamind.” But to call these characters really is a farce when you get down to it.

In “Despicable Me” Steve Carrell voices Gru who has the physicality of a James Bond villain from the Sean Connery era but seems to be as threatening as a kitten when it comes to personality. To further humanize Gru three orphan girls are placed in his care as part of an evil scheme. The interaction between Gru Margot, Edith and Agnes achieves this in terms of character and is also satisfying in terms of entertainment.

That being said, however, Gru’s minions are what every kid, and even most of the parents, will be talking about after they see this film. I would say that they are what everyone will be quoting but they speak their own sped up minion language that is difficult to understand, let alone translate.

But you do not have to understand the minions to get the full effect. Think three stooges, only there are hundreds of them, they’re the size of a two year old and are the color of yellow plastic kitchen gloves.

Probably 95 percent of the film’s humor comes from the minions as the rest of the story lacks anything else worthy of quoting. Gru’s rival Vector, voiced by Jason Segel, occasionally draws laughs but not as much as an important character like that should. The bland comic nature of the film really does not matter because the minions truly are funny enough to carry the movie.

Turning “Despicable Me’ into a franchise may be difficult, because of a lackluster story to start off with, but studios have turned much worse into long-running franchises before.

And the 3D only really comes into play during one scene where Gru and the girls visit an amusement park. Other than that it is an excuse for the filmmakers to think up different spear-like objects that they can have stick out at the audience.

But does the 3D add to the story, make the minions even funnier or the interaction between Gru and the girls more heart-warming? Yes it does…it brings the characters to life even more than they are in 2D in my opinion. Making them more appealing and full of life!

For younger readers of this blog why not try the Despicable Me Minions site!

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