Despicable Me 2 Reviews
We Got This Covered
Despicable Me 2 is not a bad film, but it is a frustratingly lazy and hollow one, and at this point, nothing makes me more depressed about the state of Hollywood than cash-grab animated sequels like these.
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| Original Score: 4/10
Top CriticDirectors Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin deserve credit for not rehashing the basic ideas of their first effort, but they never really expand upon its unique universe either.
CinemaBlend.com
Despicable Me 2 feels more like a first draft than a final product.
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| Original Score: 2/5
AV Club
A sequel was a foregone conclusion, but how did those responsible lose sight of what made the original special?
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| Original Score: C
Las Vegas Weekly
As amusing as the minions can be, they aren't enough to carry the movie.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
The minions are still wacky scene-stealers -- and once again, we don't get nearly enough of them -- but Gru and his daughters have been blanded down to bad-sitcom level.
honeycuttshollywood.com
The pratfalls, gizmos and Loony Tunes 'violence' will elicit giggles from kids while adults are left to smile indulgently.
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| Original Score: 5
TV Guide's Movie Guide
For cynics and detractors, it may at time feel like this sequel exists for nothing more than to push the film's most marketable characters front and center.
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| Original Score: 2/4
[A] remarkably tepid sequel to the surprise 2010 hit ...
Total Film
A pale imitation of its fresh and frisky predecessor.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Twitch
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.
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| Original Score: C-
Film Racket
The original had something equally new to say about our fixation with heroes and villains. Despicable Me 2 only cares about the bottom line... and increasing it.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Antagony & Ecstasy
There's still an attempt at the playfully naughty misanthropy, but it feels tired and worn.
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| Original Score: 5/10
ColeSmithey.com
Co-directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud return for a shot at turning the unlikely "Despicable Me" premise into an animation franchise.
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| Original Score: C+
Bullz-Eye.com
It feels as it Hal from marketing had some input in the creative process. This is never a good thing.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Slapstick high jinks are plentiful, though never particularly funny.
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| Original Score: 2/4
RedEye
Mild on every level: mildly funny, mildly annoying, mildly cute and mildly offensive.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Flick Filosopher
In an almost terrifying reversal from the first film, this is crude, racist, and sexist, in entirely well-worn ways. (But the Minions are still funny.)
7M Pictures
Plays a lot like an Ice Age sequel. There's just too many characters which were essential to the original movie but irrelevant here.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
