Eight words:
The Adventure of the Creeping Man, and purple.
The former is a Sherlock Holmes short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the latter the color of Mace Windu’s lightsaber, and a truly original addition by the film’s directors.
Spoilers to follow. DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN IT YET.
This was a great movie, if scarier than the original Despicable Me. There was a great sense of menace and suspense at the beginning, since you didn’t know what was going on when the Minions were disappearing one by one. I found it kind of odd that Gru did notice, but dismissed it as giving them too much vacation time. (Oh, and by the way: I REALLY WANT TO FIND THE WEBSITE HE WAS READING IN THE MOVIE. Villains.com or something like that.)
Agnes’ birthday party. Extremely cute. And more loosers: #5 (Julian), #65 (Silas Ramsbottom–honestly, who has a name like that?!) and #7 (who has an unfortunate name-resonance with the heroine, Shannon Holmes, of my new drama series that I’m working on. Yeah… she stays Looser #6 to me. X-P) Incidentally, this is the first Despicable Me movie with a villain who is not hash-tagged “Looser”, as Vector should have been. (Loosers #1, #2, and #3 were the vacationing family in Egypt who discovered that the Great Pyramid was a fake, if you must know. Looser #4 was Vector.)
Jam as a weapon. Absolutely love it. Nefario was brilliant. This was a very appropriate psychological journey for him, though for obvious reasons they couldn’t flesh out the backstory there (since they had to maintain suspense.) Needless to say, I did foresee that Nefario would be working for El Macho, and also that he would return to working with Gru before the end.
“You brought the girls along?!”
“Er… was that wrong?”
-Gru and Nefario
Oh, and how can I not mention Ninja Edith?! And lovestruck Margo–erm… glad that Antonio ditched her, to be honest. Love at first sight? Nope, not feeling it.
This film left me with just one question: Just how many Minions are there in existence?!
If you have not read The Adventure of the Creeping Man, you are missing out. I strongly recommend it.
And did I mention I love Ninja Edith?!
Hope you enjoyed this review! 🙂 Thanks for reading, and God Bless!
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Did you spot the ripoff from AotC?
I thought it was more Jekyll and Hyde, actually.
Despicable Me 2 was the first movie I have seen in a cinema in… seven years. Go figure.
AotC rip-off… I probably did but I can’t remember at the moment.
It was just a little one, a split-second. For which much thanks. Where Gru jumps off his airship to rescue Lucy. It’s exactly what Anakin wanted to do – remember?
Oh! At least he wasn’t leaving off chasing Dooku. 😛
No… I meant the bit when Obi-Wan has to remind Anakin that Padme would do her duty, and therefore so must he.
Oh, and if it’s not too much trouble, would you check you email? It’s nearly midnight here and I’m nearly asleep… surely Jedi don’t do stupid things like seeing in the Nw YEar… surelyyyyyyyyyyyy……….
I’m working on it. :-S my life is so sad right now, it’s not even funny. I took my brother hiking and he’s mad at me because we didn’t do everything this year he wanted to. 😦
Why is it, all of a sudden, “okay” to abandon your post in fiction? Just because your superior is an idiot?! That doesn’t justify one not fulfilling one’s duty! Gah. I just realized I should probably address that in a blog post.
Obi-Wan is NOT an idiot!!!
I wasn’t implying THAT, I was talking about the person in the movie. Sorry about the confusion. :-S
Okay. (Didn’t really sound like the sort of thing you’d say, anyway!)
Yeah… I’ve been really tired. One of the downsides of the holidays. I had a crazy dream last night. I dreamed that I was on assignment with Anakin and Obi-Wan (don’t ask), and Anakin was being a brat, and i hit him. I’ve never been so satisfied about any of my dreams before, ever. ;-P
Padme thinks Obi-Wan is kind of clueless when it comes to how emotions work, though. I just think she’s… acting like a teenager again… Sorry. I’m talking to myself. Padme actually affectionately called Obi-Wan “you adorable idiot” in one of my stories once. Crazy…
So you’re a fan of Sherlock Holmes? Cool! I’ve always loved Sherlock Holmes. I’ll have to see if I can spot the references you’ve noted. 😀
OH YEAH. Have you read the book “The Science of Sherlock Holmes”? It’s my favorite Christmas gift I got this year. 😀 Gets a bit gruesome, but still– fun. 😀
Incidentally, I’ve been drafted into the BBC Sherlock fandom, without even having seen one of the episodes! Is that crazy or what?
Ah well, I suppose that’s what comes of having a whole established group of Cumber-bunnies in your church community… 😛
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