As the lights were dimming before the screening of Despicable Me, the 6-year-old who lives in my house leaned over and said, "I hope this is funny — not like Toy Story 3," which was, to him, "sad" and "scary." So, then, to the movie featuring fart guns, shrink rays and squid shooters! Despicable Me is a silly antidote to Toy Story 3's thoughtful heaviness — a cavalcade of kiddie giggles, titters and belly laughs with as much heft as helium. It's rather joyful and heartfelt, too. This is the story of a wannabe evil genius (Gru, voiced by Steve Carell) who learns that buried beneath his heft and his hefty mommy issues is a heart large enough to find room for three orphaned girls. To that, add countless yellow, pill-shaped, one- or two-eyed "minions," who provide comic relief enough to fuel a surefire spinoff show on Nickelodeon. It's also one of the rare instances in the recent history of 3-D's resurrection in which the technology accentuates the experience. Grown-ups, though, be warned: I had more fun watching the kid giggle through the screening than I did watching the movie itself. It's no Toy Story 3.
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I guess it depends on your frame of reference. If you're in that phase where being cool and being seen as cool is all you have, then you probably won't enjoy this. But if you are like the rest of us, you will enjoy this movie for two reasons. First, we saw it this weekend in an audience of adults, with a few kids. The adults laughed as much or more then the kids. The jokes could be considered juvenile, but appreciable. It was a fun movie. Second, if you have kids, like many of us do, and you enjoy spending time with them and watching them grow up you will love this movie. Sincerely.
I guess it depends on your frame of reference. If you're in that phase where being cool and being seen as cool is all you have, then you probably won't enjoy this. But if you are like the rest of us, you will enjoy this movie for two reasons. First, we saw it this weekend in an audience of adults, with a few kids. The adults laughed as much or more then the kids. The jokes could be considered juvenile, but appreciable. It was a fun movie. Second, if you have kids, like many of us do, and you enjoy spending time with them and watching them grow up you will love this movie. Sincerely.
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