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kids will love it, grownups will feel disappointed
PostedAugust 13, 2010
buggybumpers
from Flagstaff, AZ
This could have made an amazing ten minute short: a mad scientist pestered by adorable kids has his heart melted and becomes their father figure while fighting to stay true to his darker, more entertaining side.
Unfortunately in true American style, the main character is repeatedly defanged to make him likable -- we went to a movie about an evil scientist, expecting him to do, well, evil stuff. By the end of the film the most nefarious thing Gru's done to the innocent is cut in line at Starbucks -- and that was in his first scene. The woman running the orphanage is arguably more evil than any of the supervillains in the movie.
Subplots are complicated and/or resolved through coincidence, Gru is inexplicably ordered around by his underling because it moves the plot along, the antagonists are wholly unpunished and even the credits sequence passes on the chance to epilogue the story, instead showing off side characters doing things which would look fabulous if you had maybe paid extra to watch it in 3D -- and most of this film does not merit paying extra to see it in 3D.
Considering the screenwriters have been partners for nine years, you'd think it would have felt a little more polished and less like a student film funded by foreign film tax credits.
As a sequel is apparently already greenlighted, it will be interesting to see whether they put any more care into making it.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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