Gru is back. Because the first film moved a lot of hearts and a lot of moolah.
Despicable Me 2 picked up where its predecessor left off, showing what the ex-hapless villain Gru is up to after doing the 360 and completely shunning his evil ways. For one, Gru has converted his evil lair into an unnecessarily elaborate production line for bad-tasting jelly, his new found occupation. This while staging the most kick-ass birthday party for his ball of endless cuteness, Agnes, the youngest of his three adopted geerrrls together with Edith and Margo. But of course the many adventures of a full time dad and a new entrepreneur is not a thick enough plot for a sequel. There has to be some bad guy action!! Enter the Anti Villain League (AVL), who send their new agent Lucy Wilde to recruit (tase and kidnap) the reformed Gru. The goal: to catch the villain who has stolen a mutagen that can transform the most adorable creatures to mindless killing machines. Why Gru? Because as an ex-villain, he is expected to know exactly how to catch one. Still sound like a thin plot? Well throw in a blind-dating side story, a girl-phobia back story, a dash of spunk from the flexible and fumbling Agent Wilde, a presumed dead macho villain and his smexy accent, his douchebag Latino-Justin Beiber son, and large doses of pranks and musical vignettes care of the hilarious minions. It looks a little bit like this: Continue Reading
