What can I say, it’s been a movie kind of weekend. While I’m at it, I’ll also say this one was the better of the two. In fact, it was downright hilarious.
I can’t really detail much of a plot because there really wasn’t one. It was one comedy sequence followed by another, with a bunch of common characters tying it all together. The comedy was all over the place: sight gags, puns, physical humor, farting and well-timed potty mouth language. The kids loved it. They were laughing almost as hard as I was.
Gru is the main character. A self-made super thief who wants to steal the moon. The only problem is the moon is really big, so he needs a shrink ray gun, but his arch-nemesis Vector gets there first. In order to get the gun back, Gru adopts 3 girls whom Vector let in to buy cookies from as part of a ploy to get into Vector’s compound and steal back the shrink-ray gun. Along the way, he trips over every possible parent-trap and is endlessly manipulated by the girls. Luckily he has his little yellow-minion dudes to kick around.
The comedy does slow down as the predicable affections for the girls unfold, at which point Vector becomes the punchline for much of the physical humor. Regardless, I’d enthusiastically recommend it for anyone with kids 5+. There’s plenty in this one for eerybody.