When Gru, the world's most super-bad turned super-dad has been recruited by a team of officials to stop lethal muscle and a host of Gru's own, He has to fight back with new gadgetry, cars, and more minion madness.
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.Written by
Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Steve Carell (Gru), Jack Angel, and John Cygan have previously worked together in Horton Hears a Who (2008) as Mayor Ned McDodd and two of the whos of Whoville. See more »
Goofs
Lucy personally witnessed that the minions are Gru's henchmen. Then, she asks if Gru knows the minions. See more »
Quotes
Gru:
[in falsetto]
It is I, Gru-
[pauses]
Gru:
zinkerbell, the most magical faerie princess of all!
Young Boy:
[interrupts]
How come you're so fat?
Gru:
[annoyed]
Because my house is made out of candy, and sometimes,
[while hitting boy with wand]
Gru:
I eat instead of facing my problems!
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Crazy Credits
During the opening Illumination logo, two Minions say "Ta-da!" and fight over who gets to say it. See more »
Alternate Versions
When first aired on NBC in 2016, the Illumination Entertainment logo from The Secret Life of Pets was used in the place of this film's variant. See more »
It's not often that a hit animated film's sequel surpasses the original film. Despicable Me 2 is one of those rare cases. From the moment it appears on the screen to the end of the film, Despicable Me 2 is a fast paced, fun film that never ceases to be entertaining.
This film has you laughing quite often, contains humour that both kids and adults can appreciate, and had at least one moment that was worthy of clapping out loud to.
The character development is to be praised, as is the warmth and soul that Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud put into this film.
This film leaves you feeling joyful and satisfied and happy for the characters and the new direction their lives are taking.
This film is not to be missed and I can't recommend it enough.
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It's not often that a hit animated film's sequel surpasses the original film. Despicable Me 2 is one of those rare cases. From the moment it appears on the screen to the end of the film, Despicable Me 2 is a fast paced, fun film that never ceases to be entertaining.
This film has you laughing quite often, contains humour that both kids and adults can appreciate, and had at least one moment that was worthy of clapping out loud to.
The character development is to be praised, as is the warmth and soul that Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud put into this film.
This film leaves you feeling joyful and satisfied and happy for the characters and the new direction their lives are taking.
This film is not to be missed and I can't recommend it enough.