Despicable Me 2
Sequel to the previous chapter, Gru has finally been recruited by a team of officials. Its time to fight with more minion madness and gadgets.
14 October 1965, Middleton, Manchester, England, UK
14 November 1981, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
8 February 2005, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 December 1963, San Francisco, California, USA
18 November 1981, Tehran, Iran
4 June 1975, Grays, Essex, England, UK
19 May 1959, New York, New York, USA
22 August 1973, Canandaigua, New York, USA
July 11, 2016
Despicable Me 2 earns the right to be slight and nutty because it cultivated those feelings in its predecessor.
August 01, 2014
The first act of Despicable Me 2 is so winning and engaging that it's almost a tragedy how the rest of the film falls into bargain basement formula.
July 03, 2013
How do you tell a story about a bad guy who is no longer a bad guy? Despicable Me 2 embraces the dilemma and adds new ones.
February 04, 2014
Carrell's almost better this way, with his mugging fully abstracted by animation, whereas we start to miss Wiig's actual face.
July 03, 2013
"Despicable Me 2" lags on occasion, but every time I found my attention waning, the filmmakers did something wicked to goose me.
July 08, 2013
Co-directors Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin, who do Minion voices expertly, never let up on the laughs. A fart joke in 3-D may not be three times as wacky, but the high spirits of Despicable Me 2 are irresistible fun.
July 03, 2013
[A] remarkably tepid sequel to the surprise 2010 hit ...
July 03, 2013
As a sequel [it] stands level with the first film (also directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud), and may have the edge on it.
April 09, 2016
It's hard to tell if directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud faced interference on the part of the studio, but the film lacks any discernible spark beyond frenzied goofiness.
January 06, 2014
Franchises are born more from box-office success than creative necessity, and this sequel has only a fraction of the originality demonstrated by its predecessor.
July 15, 2013
This is one of those rarities, an animated sequel that improves on the original.
March 21, 2014
...a passable followup that's sure to amuse and entertain fans of the original.
