Despicable Me 2 Review!

It's time. It's here. 

Bubbles. It makes me happy. Bubbles while watching Despicable Me 2: AMAZING. Well, really, there wasn't any bubbles in the theater, but watching the movie in RealD made me feel like it did. I watched Despicable Me 2 on Wednesday, July 2nd, the day it premiered, but this review is posted on the weekend because I traveled to Hong Kong (yayy!). Enough with this random nonsense, its time for the review!

(Please skip the spoiler section if you don't like spoilers!!!!!)

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Unlike some of my other reviews, I'm going to just give a quick, yet informational summary.

Much of the basic, earlier plot of the movie is explained in the trailer. Though initially Gru was back in the business to go undercover to find the mutating chemical, PX-41, he ends up trying to find out if Eduardo Perez, owner of Salsa & Salsa, is really El Macho, a former villain that was said to have died when he hurled into an erupting volcano strapped to dynamite and a shark. As this mission also starts, a new mission to find out what is happening to the minions, as many were disappearing and mutating into crazy, purple indestructible balls of terror.  Gru doesn't only face hero-villain like troubles, he also faces personal and family problems like falling in love with Lucy, his partner-in-crime, Margo falling for boys, and Agnes' trouble with a Mother's Day speech.

The plot and much of the multiple subplots connect together at the end, including Agnes finally confidentially giving a Mother's Day speech at Gru and Lucy's wedding. Also this is extra filling sentence for anyone who does not was to know the big spoiler at the end. Though most movies end with everything coming together and making sense, I loved how Despicable Me 2 incorporated them into each other and still made it flow very well. 

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One of the official posters for the movie

This was definitely a movie that I enjoyed a lot. The purple mutated minions legitimately scared me because when they jump out of the flat screen, you can't help but wonder if the hundreds of them will eat you...

But then again....I learned to never mess with Agnes and her unicorn.....

As I watched the movie, I noticed differences from the first film. With much of character development already established in the first movie, it was not a heavy factor in the sequel. However, you still find newly introduced characters like Lucy and  and original members like Gru, Margo, and even Dr. Nefario, continue to develop even further. Instead on focusing on much of character development, there were many goofy gaffes throughout the film that all seemed to involve the minions. I enjoyed watching these gaffes, as they were quite random, but enjoyable and what makes this movie the blockbuster that it is.

It's true!

Though I throughly enjoyed the movie, I did not like the structure of the plot very much. The beginning of the movie was very random, but an understandable addition to add more gaffes. Throughout the entire movie, I felt like there were multiple subplots that would be interrupted and reiterated at different times of the movie, a little bit like ASDFmovies on Youtube. I can't complain too much about this structure though, because in the end, I understood each one and it all connected very well to end the movie.

Applaud or Veto?

I feel like my movie reviews are getting quite predictable, but an applaud from me! It's a cute, goofy family movie that can take your mind off the pressures of life. It's a pretty random movie, but I put it on my "must watch again" list because of a) the minions, b) I loved the first Despicable Me and I loved this, and c) the joy and laughter it brought me for an hour and thirty-eight minutes.