Lumbered with three children for reasons long since forgotten, Gru (Steve Carell) has given up being evil in the name of fatherhood and instead turned the rather more wholesome profession..
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The day that turkeys develop the ability to wield knives, the human race is doomed. World War T?
The heat is on to be the best gosh darn villain the world has ever seen. And when your competition is out nicking the Egyptian pyramids and other great wonders of the world, you know you’ve got to up your game. So Gru sorts himself out with the ultimate secret weapon in his grand master scheme; three orphan girls. And before you get the wrong idea, he doesn’t put them through an intensive training course and turn them into child soldiers, rather, he uses the power of cookie selling to get the ball a-rolling.
Despicable Me is a kids film that may not have been made by Pixar but it could have been: The story of a supervillain struggling to control an army of minions and three orphaned girls will provide real heart and sardonic wit along with the zany animation slapstick.
Supervillain flick Despicable Me has knocked The Twilight Saga: Eclipse from the top of the US box office chart with an evil laugh-worthy $60m opening week.
With the upcoming MegaMind, Disney’s new baddie twist on Sleeping Beauty and Despicable Me, it looks like we may be ushering in the age of the anti-hero. Who cares about the good guys? It’s all about them blokes lurking about in the shadows.
40 years have passed since Gene Wilder made possibly the best entrance in any film ever, limping out of those factory doors to stunned silence before roly-polying his way into cinematic history. So what if Roald Dahl didn’t like it? So what if Tim Burton’s version was more faithful to the original text? Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory is still an unrivalled masterpiece, and a glorious example of the musical genre. I’ll drink to that…
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