A good-humoured, accessible comedy.
Despicable Me attempts the by-now-traditional approach of pleasing young and old alike. More often than not it succeeds.
The animation is lively, if derivative, and there are some nice, throw-away gags for older audiences.
It’s no first-rank CGI cartoon, but shows how Pixar’s quality over crass is inspiring the mid-list. Fun, with teary bits, for kids; fresh and smart for adults.
Maybe Despicable Me doesn't go for the moon, but it still deserves three stars.
It’s no first-rank CGI cartoon, but shows how Pixar’s quality over crass is inspiring the mid-list. Fun, with teary bits, for kids; fresh and smart for adults.
You see the machinery behind every joke, the action sequences are functional and it ends with that last resort of the desperate, a dance routine.
This effort is most certainly for kids, rather than adults, so consider yourselves warned.
There are enough weird highlights to propel it along, even when it’s gearing up for the predictable redemption of Carell’s Gru character via a trio of adorable orphan girls.
he animation is fine and crisp, there's a cameo from Russell Brand and plenty of kid-friendly gags but the whole thing fails to excite.
Far from despicable, but should have been better.
Decent stuff, but Gru is nowhere near as interesting as, say, Syndrome from The Incredibles, or Jim Carrey's Count Olaf in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
It's a shame that a film about yanking the moon from the earth's orbit should end up so full of cheese.
A CGI movie in the visual style of Pixar, though less witty and graphically inventive.
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