Despicable Me 2 (4 Stars)

Amazon Friday #21

"Despicable Me 2" isn't as funny as the first film, but it's still a good film. It makes up for the reduced humour by having the atmosphere of a spy film. It's not overtly a spy film, but it still has a James-Bond-ish feeling to it. You need to watch the film yourself to know what I mean.

Scientists in the Arctic Circle have developed a potion capable of altering DNA. This is stolen by an unknown master criminal. The Anti Villain League approaches Gru as an ex-villain to recruit his assistance in finding the villain. Gru protests that he's not an ex-villain, he's just taking a break from crime, but he agrees to help. He teams up with the AVL agent Lucy Wilde. She secretly confesses that she's fascinated by Gru's past, and if he ever returns to crime she'll quit the AVL to become his accomplice.

There's a shopping mall where several master criminals lead innocent lives. Gru and Lucy are sent to work in the mall, opening a jam shop as their cover. While they're hunting for the criminal responsible for the theft a romance develops.

Lucy is pretty, in a cartoonish way. It's just a shame that her nose is bigger than her breasts.

But Gru doesn't notice her big nose. His eyes are elsewhere.

Gru has an even bigger nose. It makes kissing difficult.

Closer...

Closer.....

And they get there in the end!

The girls that Gru adopted in the first film approve. They want a mother.

I always get their names mixed up, so I'm including three posters here, more as a reference for myself than for my readers.

Now I have no excuse for forgetting their names again. Edith is disguised in her picture, but she's easily recognisable from her trademark hat. She's never shown in the films without it.

But as any young child will tell you, the film is all about the Minions. My grandson Oliver can't even remember the name of the film. "Despicable" is such a long word. He calls it the Minion film.

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