Phew, ok. Now,
let’s try something a little happier, shall we? For all my “realism”, even I
can’t abide 100% darkness the whole time. And when I say “let’s lighten things
up a bit” I’m going all out. As we discussed above, the world can be a dark and
scary place. Luckily we have things like family, laughter and more importantly
animated movies to get us through the dark places…
I am deeply
suspicious of sequels. I always have been. I strongly believe in leaving at the
top of your game and all that. I know that the crew behind Despicable Me was
good. But still… Good crews have tried other sequels and failed. This could
have been the same. I mean it’s a good bet the kids would love it anyway but
would we? The answer is yes. Yes, we would.
Gru and the
crew are back. Although God only knows Gru didn’t want this. The plan was to
give up “villaining” all together now and concentrate on legitimate business
and family life- Gru does have three kids to raise now you know. How will they
live? Well Dr Nefario and the minions are helping Gru develop a line of jams
and jellies… It’s err… A work in process. But yeah. Sadly for Gru, his criminal
talents are needed and they are needed urgently. There is a brand new
super-criminal afoot and there is only one person the Anti Villain League can
think of to help stop him: Gru! He takes a bit of convincing but Gru finally
agrees to do “one last job”… Coupled
with the rather eccentric agent Lucy, Gru sets off to work saving the world
once again. But what with teenage daughters and disappearing minions, he may not quite have his mind on the job…
This is
another one of those ones where I’m dying to literally tell you all about it
but I don’t want to mess up any of the surprises. Suffice it to say that all
our friends that we know and love are back and up to more tricks. The kids are
as adorable as ever and Gru, not surprisingly, has got more of handle on
parenting this time around. Look out for the minions – as if you needed telling
– they have a considerably larger piece of the action this time around. I’m so
glad they’re getting their own movie – aren’t you? Never fear, as you probably
know, the rumours are in fact a reality. Check the end credits for this film if
you don’t believe me J
So ok, I
love Despicable me and I love the minions, but am I going to say “it’s perfect”
and gloss it over? Well, no. I was a little upset that the series felt the need
to “round off” Gru and the girls into a perfect family (oh come on. You KNEW
Lucy was a love interest the moment I mentioned her. Don’t pull that face. You
totally did). Having spent the larger part of my life growing up in a
single-parent family I resented that a tiny bit. It’s a personal thing. I mean
yes, of course having two parents is the ideal thing, no one can dispute that.
But still, my point is single parent families do just fine thank you very much,
they don’t necessarily need to be “rounded off” for the sake of being rounded
off. But then again… I guess the film is more about love. And the fact that
being a family doesn’t necessarily mean being blood relatives. The love comes,
it brings people together and at the end of the day it even conquers “small
details” like genetics. Which, I suppose, is also a worthy message. Ok yeah, it
totally is. Besides it also puts out the message that love can come at any age
etc. Gru is a “proper grown up” as opposed to the young 20-somethings (I can
officially say that because the only two I’m getting in my age is on the far
right from now on. Except if I live to a 120. Which is well… Unlikely.) finding
love and settling down right at the beginning of “things”. So yeah. Actually a
good mix of relevant real-life messages with your comedy. That’s exactly the
kind of thing I like to see in a film.
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