MORE MINIONS. MORE DESPICABLE.

When a mutagen is stolen from a lab in the Arctic Circle, the now reformed Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to find the guilty – and he’s partnered with a female agent.

The kind of sequel that audiences wanted to see, but where the filmmakers really seem to have struggled trying to come up with a way to continue the story. Well-paced, with lots of amusing scenes featuring Gru’s popular minions.

Looks attractive in 3D… but all the frantic spy-movie action, trying to conceal the emptiness of the story, gets a little wearisome in the second half.

2013-U.S. Animated. 98 min. Color. Directed by Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud. Song: ”Happy” (Pharrell Williams). Voices of Steve Carell (Gru), Kristen Wiig (Lucy Wilde), Benjamin Bratt (Eduardo ”El Macho” Pérez), Miranda Cosgrove, Russell Brand, Ken Jeong, Steve Coogan. 

Trivia: Al Pacino was originally hired to voice ”El Macho”, but dropped out. Followed by Despicable Me 3 (2017).