Despicable Me 2 (2013)
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 163
Fresh: 123 | Rotten: 40
It may not be as inspired as its predecessor, but Despicable Me 2 offers plenty of eye-popping visual inventiveness and a number of big laughs.
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 6
It may not be as inspired as its predecessor, but Despicable Me 2 offers plenty of eye-popping visual inventiveness and a number of big laughs.
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Movie Info
Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment's worldwide blockbuster Despicable Me entertained audiences around the globe in 2010, grossing more than $540 million and becoming the 10th-biggest animated motion picture in U.S. history. In summer 2013, get ready for more Minion madness in Despicable Me 2. (c) Universal
Cast
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Steve Carell
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Kristen Wiig
Lucy -
Benjamin Bratt
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Miranda Cosgrove
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Russell Brand
Dr. Nefario -
Ken Jeong
Floyd -
Steve Coogan
Silas -
Elsie Fisher
Agnes -
Dana Gaier
Edith -
Moises Arias
Antonio -
Nasim Pedrad
Jillian -
Kristen Schaal
Shannon -
Pierre Coffin
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Chris Renaud
Additional Minions, Evi... -
Nickolai Stoilov
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Vanessa Bayer
Flight Attendant
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All Critics (164) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (123) | Rotten (40)
This is one of those rarities, an animated sequel that improves on the original.
Top CriticCo-directors Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin, who do Minion voices expertly, never let up on the laughs. A fart joke in 3-D may not be three times as wacky, but the high spirits of Despicable Me 2 are irresistible fun.
How do you tell a story about a bad guy who is no longer a bad guy? Despicable Me 2 embraces the dilemma and adds new ones.
As a sequel [it] stands level with the first film (also directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud), and may have the edge on it.
[A] remarkably tepid sequel to the surprise 2010 hit ...
If you're looking for quality prepackaged, predigested Hollywood family fun this summer, you could do a lot worse than Despicable Me 2.
It's the zany goggle-wearing yellow-hued Minions who provide most of the film's chuckles and who justify the otherwise pointless 3D when they break the fourth wall at the start of the credits with a set of loopy antics.
The movie captures that magical mixture: naughtiness and goodness.
The only thing that really holds this sequel back... it just doesn't seem epic enough to be a "summer blockbuster"... then again, maybe that's a good thing...
Doesn't belong in the top ranks of animated fare but, like its predecessor, it contains enough humor, charm, and warmth to make it a solid family film.
THIS is what 3D should be.
A comical mash of cartoonish imagination and surreal detail that's just right for the mix of hyperkinetic humor and sentimental charm.
I think this is a fine animated comedy for kids, and parents can sit through it without despair. It just doesn't quite fit the adult audience quite as well as the first one did.
The story is unfocused, and capped by a resolution that has notable holes in reason, but even that could be forgiven in a cartoon with an arsenal of laughs.
What a nice surprise: Gru is just as funny as a good guy. 'Despicable Me 2' is, believe it or not, a romance-focused romp that has its share of villains. This time around, though, Gru is not among them.
Ranks as one of the best animated sequels of all time.
If the first film was in some ways a re-imagining of Seuss, with a grinchy Gru's heart growing from two sizes too small to one too large, Despicable Me 2 continues his rehabilitation from complete societal outlier to minion-infested community fixture.
The assumption seems to be that the public can't get enough Minions. Despicable Me 2 sets out to test that assumption to its absolute limit.
Likable characters, inventive visuals buoy "Despicable 2."
There's still an attempt at the playfully naughty misanthropy, but it feels tired and worn.
Everything that is good about it-including those wonderfully nattering minions who have even more screen time and play a bigger role in the narrative-is what was good in the first film, so there isn't any sense of growth or expansion
Good film about family values
I guess it shouldn't be a surprise that a watered-down premise would get even blander in the sequel, but it's disappointing to see just how far it's fallen.
It's not that the movie is unlikable. It's that it feels like a trip through a random checklist of things that played well in the first film.
Let's hear it for the minions - they make this movie and are the real stars of the show.
Audience Reviews for Despicable Me 2
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- Additional Minions: Bottom...
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- Gru: Hello Lucy. I know our relationship is strictly professional, and I know you're leaving for Australia. So, here's the question. Would you...would...would you like to go out on a date?
- Additional Minions: Ahh no.
- Gru: Okay, that's not helping.
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- Gru: I'm just chilling with the guac. From my chip hat!
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- Eduardo/El Macho: I'm not afraid of your jelly guns.
- Dr. Nefario: Oh this ain't a jelly gun, sunshine.
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- Gru: Lipstick taser!
- Lucy: Aw, he copied me.
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- Margo: Does... it matter?
- Gru: No, no it doesn't matter, unless it's a boy!
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