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从与玛戈、伊迪丝和阿格蕾丝三个可爱的小女孩实现宿命的邂逅，曾经的大坏蛋格鲁可真彻底转型了，他金盆洗手，转而化身为慈祥可亲的爸爸和做得一手烂口味布丁果冻的商人。当然凡事没有尽善尽美的，在此期间，憧憬大坏蛋传奇人生的老搭档纳法利欧博士离他而去，另谋高就。某天，格鲁被身怀绝技却鲁莽的特工露西·王尔德绑架，原来露西所在的集团研制出可以改变生物基因的药物，可他们位于北极的实验室被神秘窃贼偷走，因此才委托有过坏蛋经验的格鲁做卧底。经过一番考虑，格鲁接受了这项任务，带着超萌的小黄人们，和露西组成了爆笑连连的追凶搭档。

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Cute, lovely, adorable, how many words with the same connotation can you come up with? Well, you'd better start taking your vocabulary lesson now, because once you've seen the second installment of the DespicableMe series, you’ll be searching your brain for words to describe the irresistible charm that directors Pierre Coffin , Chris Renaud and their team have tried to instill in their latest product.

In the first episode, super villain Gru realized his dream of stealing the moon and in the process adoptedthree orphan girls. Now as a father, Gru has retired from his evil business and focuses his productive capacity on making jam and jelly. But his peaceful days don't last long because a new super villain is out there wreaking havoc and Gru is called in by the Anti-Villain League for assistance. Undercover AVL agent Lucy Wilde is his partner.

Despite the success of the first installment, the viewers and critics have mixed feelings about the sequel.On the one hand, the previous piece is packed with all kinds of cuteness that one just cannot get enough.From Gru's East European accent to the lovely faces of the little girls, exquisite animation technique hasprojected amazing comical effects into the pictures, with the little yellow minions being the highlight ofthe film. In the second installment, these yellow critters are naturally given much more screen time, theyare the magic word that lures the viewers into cinemas.

On the other hand, the various forms of cuteness are not enough to save the botched addition. First of all,we liked the first installment because it offered a fresh perspective of a villain, which is not very often seen in animated comedies. And by the end of “Despicable Me”, the villain Gru ended his bad guy career and became a nice guy, removing one of the major attractions about the film. As a result, the second installment places the focus on romance and family relations, that’s basically not different from any other cartoon movies.

Also, if you take away the cute distractions, there is little else left in the film. In fact, the story doesn't really hold together. Even the pacing is flawed because everything has to make way for the rib-tickling every now and then. In the midst of all that laughing, the more story-conscious viewers would probablywonder when will be the next sign for story development. Well, they need a lot of patience for that.

“Despicable Me 2” has achieved top-notch visual and comical effects, but if the series is going to last long, they’ll need much more than that. On a scale from one to ten, I give “Despicable Me 2” a seven.

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