Despicable Me 2

Ah Gru, the amount of times I watched this film when my kid was around 5 years old is insane. I know this film inside out and with my eyes closed. My kid seemed to LOVE the despicable me series somehow. Don't know what fascinated him to it, but I must have seen this film like no joke, over 500 times.

This is not one of Disney's Pixar movies but one from Illuminum Entertainment and has a more adult feel to it. Of course everything in there is completely for kids, but adults can watch this film and enjoy it for what it is also. I think most adults can relate to either Gru or Lucy.

Anyway, we start off with despicable me 2 with Gru having a birthday party for his adopted daughters.

For context in the first film Gru adopted his daughters from the children's home to carry out a master plan to gain himself entry to the villain he hates hideout. He caught them selling cookies to him, and realised he could gain access through the girls. One thing led to another and Gru fell in love with those kids, exposing his soft heart, something he hadn't known since he was a child and ended up keeping them for real.

We start off the second film as Gru is cleaning up for his daughters after a messy birthday party and he is approached by a field agent from the anti villain league, Lucy Wilde (voiced by Kristen Wiig). Obviously grew was not interested and tried to incinerate her, but, Lucy is a smart cookie and ends up knocking him unconscious with ease. She piles him into her car and leaves for the defamation league hideout.

Two minions spot Lucy stuffing Gru in the trunk of her car and decide to go investigate and try to help Gru but Lucy was prepared and knocked them both unconscious too -- and they speed off on their way to the top secret hideout of the anti villain league.

When they arrive they get to a submarine deep in the middle of nowhere and she upends both minions and Gru out of the car and into the limelight where he sits in front of what seems to be a big cheese room where decisions are made.

That's when they meet Silas Ramsbottom, a stuffy superior in the Anti Villain League. He explains to Gru that since he's an ex criminal, and has the mind of a criminal, they would like him to work with Lucy to catch an evasive criminal. They don't know who he is, nor where he is likely to strike again, and that's why they all have to work together to pick up some leads.

Far away from the excitement of catching villains and giving people their due comeuppance, Margo, Gru's eldest child is getting interested in boys and takes a fancy to Antonio Perez and is hiding it from her father, and, all is not what it seems.

I'll leave it there. I don't like spoiling stories for anyone but it's like I say, one that I've seen a trillion times with my kid. I'm sure you have too if you happen to have a son or daughter just starting their teens about now.

The Despicable Me series is quite different from the Pixar stories. These ones have a little flash of adultness to them, whilst at the same time being written for kids. I say this because whenever a new Gru and Lucy come out to air, I'm one of the first ones to be watching it, with or without my son.

So I loved this one. I hope you do too!