"Despicable Me 2" is Anything But Despicable!

Some people I know stay away from animated films, treating them all like it’s just kid’s stuff.  My question to them is:  What’s wrong with you?

     Why can’t an animated film be just as worthy, viable, and entertaining as live action?  It’s not all Phineas & Ferb or Ben 10 on the big screen, ya know, and if you’re gonna have the attitude that it just cannot be as good as live action, you’re gonna end up missing some of the good stuff!

     Okay, I DO understand that some computer animated films aren’t all that great, such as G-Force and Yogi Bear that I reviewed recently, but if you have a problem with computer animation, then you’d have to miss films like Life of Pi or Oz the Great and Powerful.

     Despicable Me 2 (trailer linked here!) is some of the good stuff!  We found it to be utterly entertaining and unbearably cute, at least as much as the first one was.  Even the trailer makes me chuckle!  Loved the voice cast, the character animation, and even though at times it seemed like it was starting to become more reminiscent of something like the two cable channel cartoons I mentioned above, or most others, it quickly veered off into other wholly entertaining directions.

     As a bonus, it wasn’t cloying like some of these animated films can be (the Madagascar movies come to mind), and wasn’t filthy either, and I’m finding that these charming Despicable Me movies have a lot of endearing qualities, and not just in the animation, but in the writing as well.  This is a family movie the entire family can thoroughly enjoy together!  A winner!