Despicable me

[secondlina]

So, I went up to Ottawa this weekend for my brother's birthday. It was a really brief, but fun visit. My little brother is now internationally legal (21 years old). To celebrate, we went to see Despicable Me. My brother doesn't really watch a lot of animated movies lately due to his friends not liking them much. So we decided it would be fun to do that.



It was a cute movie. It basically had the same idea as "The Incredibles", aka the super-guy with a family, except in this case, it's a supervillain and they are adopted kids, first adopted to conclude a nefarious plot and then truly loved. The movie was really happy and fun, and I enjoyed it.

Gru made a good supervillain. And I really liked the three girls and how their relationship evolved.

Okay, the Bank of Evil director... Does anybody ELSE think he looks like Dilbert's pointy-haired boss? Compare : Bank director. Pointy haired boss.

Something else really bugged me in this movie. The anti-gravity potion. I kept expect them to use it. There's like DOZENS of situations where they can use it. You keep expecting them to use it. They need to fly? Anti-gravity time! Wait, no. The moon is expending and needs to be put back in the sky! Anti-gravity potion to be sprayed on it? Nope. Characters falling to their deaths! ANTI-GRAVITY TIME? NO.

It's like they are just having that around to make us think they are gonna use it. And then think of something original.

Anyways. I'm going to go take the subway to work now. So tired this morning. And it's raining A LOT. Grrr.

-Isa

Comments

[yukinoomoni.livejournal.com]

That is a stunning similarity, i must admit.

perhaps I will see this after all...hmmm.

[midoriri.livejournal.com]

(First of all, love the art. XD Especially over-protective, "That's my daughter, you!" Gru.)

Yeah, this was better than I thought it would be. I really liked it, and laughed like, eighty percent of the time. Might see it again, who knows?

It wasn't just the anti-gravity potion...I kept expecting the freeze ray to do something uber-cool, or the fart gun. I mean, in the latter's case, it's even like they tease us with it--"On what circumstances would we use this?" And then...awww, missed moment of awesome?

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

It's a cute movie. It's not the best animated movie of the year (and there are some plot elements that I question) but it's a fun movie. And I still believe you can easily argue this takes place during the years the superheroes went into hiding in The Incredibles.

And hey, just think, a week from now Stu and I will be hanging out with you and Link. ^_~

[darkwaterfrey.livejournal.com]

Lovely drawings!

[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

I laughed until I cried watching Despicable Me. And then started writing fic. '5 conversations Gru never thought he'd have'.

... Now I want to add the shovel speech. Thanks for that.

-I think the main reason they didn't use the anti-grav potion is because there's no antidote to it, and no sign it wears off. Sure, they could have used it, but then they would have been stuck like that.
And there was no sign that it worked on mechanical stuff. Worked well on the Minions though. XD

[gullwhacker.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be honest here. My absolute favorite moment? The carnival game.

The game effectively ripping off kids offends even Gru. And then it's his turn.

[elle-white.livejournal.com]

This movie seems so adorable that I'd love to see it. Even though I wasn't certain about it at first.

[piratecore.livejournal.com]

I saw this with my nephew and we both though it was really cute. I love the box of shame

your drawings are so adorable. I love angry dad Gru keeping the boys at bay

[spankingfemme.livejournal.com]

Oh I saw this this past Saturday! XD I loved it so! Of course I'm a total super villain fangirl LOL! And when they get mushy I go SQUEE! LOL! :P You know, I never thought about the anti gravity formula until you mentioned it now, but that could have been pretty useful! :P

[(Anonymous)]

This movie is so cute I'm gonna die O__o

Strangely, I really wanted to see despicable Me, but I don,t want to see Megamind at all.. (although I'm starting to wonder what it's about)

And yes, I thought the exact same when I saw the bank director...

[jason-register.livejournal.com]

I loved this movie, so much I took Jenna to see it, thus watching it a second time, which for me is very rare.

Your rendition of the movie characters a little older is spot on, awesome work!