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Despicable Me 2 (2013)

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Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 165
Fresh: 124 | Rotten: 41

Despicable Me 2 offers plenty of eye-popping visual inventiveness and a number of big laughs.

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Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 6

Despicable Me 2 offers plenty of eye-popping visual inventiveness and a number of big laughs.

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Average Rating: 4.2/5
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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

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Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy

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Ken Daurio, Cinco Paul

$362.4M

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All Critics (166) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (124) | Rotten (41)

This is one of those rarities, an animated sequel that improves on the original.

July 15, 2013 Full Review Source: New Yorker
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Co-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.

July 8, 2013 Full Review Source: Rolling Stone
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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.

July 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News
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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.

July 3, 2013 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine
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[A] remarkably tepid sequel to the surprise 2010 hit ...

July 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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If you're looking for quality prepackaged, predigested Hollywood family fun this summer, you could do a lot worse than Despicable Me 2.

July 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia Inquirer
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The minions are back and better than ever.

August 13, 2013 Full Review Source: Entertainment Spectrum
Entertainment Spectrum

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.

August 5, 2013 Full Review Source: Movie Talk
Movie Talk

The movie captures that magical mixture: naughtiness and goodness.

July 31, 2013 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Combustible Celluloid

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...

July 31, 2013 Full Review Source: MovieCrypt.com
MovieCrypt.com

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.

July 21, 2013 Full Review Source: Aisle Seat
Aisle Seat

THIS is what 3D should be.

July 20, 2013 Full Review Source: MediaMikes
MediaMikes

A comical mash of cartoonish imagination and surreal detail that's just right for the mix of hyperkinetic humor and sentimental charm.

July 19, 2013 Full Review Source: American Profile
American Profile

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.

July 18, 2013 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope
Laramie Movie Scope

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.

July 16, 2013 Full Review Source: Cinemaphile.org
Cinemaphile.org

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.

July 15, 2013 Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

Ranks as one of the best animated sequels of all time.

July 12, 2013 Full Review Source: Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

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.

July 11, 2013 Full Review Source: Paste Magazine
Paste Magazine

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.

July 11, 2013 Full Review Source: The Dissolve
The Dissolve

Likable characters, inventive visuals buoy "Despicable 2."

July 11, 2013 Full Review Source: Illinois Times
Illinois Times

There's still an attempt at the playfully naughty misanthropy, but it feels tired and worn.

July 10, 2013 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy
Antagony & Ecstasy

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

July 10, 2013 Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk
Q Network Film Desk

Good film about family values

July 10, 2013 Full Review Source: ReviewExpress.com
ReviewExpress.com

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.

July 9, 2013 Full Review Source: Twitch

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.

July 9, 2013 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Audience Reviews for Despicable Me 2

When the world needed a hero, they called a villain.

Good animated movie! Despicable Me 2 is a fast paced, funny, feel good film that keeps you entertained from the 1st minute to the last. The pace of the film moves along nicely and keeps the audience attention very well. It has many laugh out loud moments, a decent mix of children humor and adult humor. I found the visuals very impressive, it was very colorful and very imaginative. The action scenes we also very well done. This movie gives a heartfelt message, showing us that you don't need to miss being evil, if you have friends, and family in your life.

While Gru, the ex-supervillain is adjusting to family life and an attempted honest living in the jam business, a secret Arctic laboratory is stolen. The Anti-Villain League decides it needs an insider's help and recruits Gru in the investigation. Together with the eccentric AVL agent, Lucy Wilde, Gru concludes that his prime suspect is the presumed dead supervillain, El Macho, whose his teenage son is also making the moves on his eldest daughter, Margo. Seemingly blinded by his overprotectiveness of his children and his growing mutual attraction to Lucy, Gru seems on the wrong track even as his minions are being quietly kidnapped en masse for some malevolent purpose.
July 18, 2013
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Manu Gino

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The creators reverently acknowledge their (surprising?) fans by underscoring that which they loved and leaving out the so so as Gru gets a chance to catch a villain instead of merely being a reformed one. And while there's mucho Minion comedy to fill inbetween, I had imagined a tale to bring them closer to the story's center - as they already inhabit (who are they, where do they come from and why do they serve?) - other than this one where Gru finds love. Maybe the next one? Nonetheless the best entertainment value this summer so far, by far.
July 7, 2013
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    1. Lucy: El Macho sounds pretty dead to me.
    2. Gru: His body was never found, only a pile of singed chest hair.
    – Submitted by Raisul I (38 days ago)
    1. Gru: That guy looks exactly like a villain named El Macho.
    2. Lucy: What?
    3. Gru: About twenty years ago, he was ruthless, he was dangerous and as the name implies very macho! He had the reputation of committing heists just using his bare hands! But like all the greats, El Macho was gone too soon. He died in the most macho way possible: jumping out of a plane, with 250 pounds of dynamite strapped to his chest, while riding a shark straight into the mouth of an active volcano!
    – Submitted by Raisul I (38 days ago)
    1. Jillian: Hello Gru. This is Jillian.
    2. Gru: Agness, tell Jillian I'm not here.
    – Submitted by Christian Joie N (43 days ago)
    1. Additional Minions: Bottom...
    – Submitted by Carlos Manuel R (2 months ago)
    1. 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?
    2. Additional Minions: Ahh no.
    3. Gru: Okay, that's not helping.
    – Submitted by Ramon Paolo A (2 months ago)
    1. Gru: I'm just chilling with the guac. From my chip hat!
    – Submitted by Gavin K (2 months ago)
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