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Despicable Me is a compelling animated comedy about an aging supervillain's falling popularity at the hands of a younger supervillain and three young orphan girls. Gru is a true, bad-to-the-core evildoer who's earned the title of the world's No. 1 supervillain. But when young upstart Vector steals the Pyramid of Giza, Gru's status suddenly sinks to No. 2. Gru counters his fall by speeding up his plan to shrink and steal the moon, enlisting the help of his army of minions and the elderly Dr. Nefario, but a lack of funding and the difficulties involved in stealing the needed shrink-ray gun threaten to derail everything. Adopting three young orphan girls is an unlikely, but seemingly effective means to further Gru's evil mission, but Gru quickly discovers that caring for three young girls is more work, and distraction, than he could ever have anticipated. What unfolds is an unexpected shift in attitude that will forever change the lives of Gru, Vector, and all three young girls. A visually appealing film produced by Chris Meledandri (Ice Age, Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, and Horton Hears a Who), Despicable Me is full of weirdly shaped characters and settings that are somehow a perfect fit for Sergio Pablos's story. What's especially refreshing is that in this film, 3-D effects are used skillfully and effectively: even when the effects are exploited for comic reasons, they don't become a distraction, as is all too common in many recent movies. The film is full of corny banter and silly antics that inspire plenty of spontaneous laughter, and the minions, while not the best-developed characters, sure are comical. Ultimately, there's also a wholesome message about following one's heart. Steve Carell is the perfect villain-gone-soft in his role as Gru, Jason Segal is quite funny as Vector, and Julie Andrews makes a surprising appearance as Gru's very un-motherly mom. The story isn't new, the humour is relatively juvenile and somewhat forgettable, and it's no Toy Story 3, but Despicable Me celebrates silliness in a way that's satisfying and highly entertaining. (Ages 6 and older) --Tami Horiuchi
DVD Description
In a happy suburban neighbourhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbours, hidden deep beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by an army of tireless, little yellow minions, we discover Gru (Steve Carell), planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon (Yes, the moon!) to prove to his Mum (Julie Andrews) that he is better than the other super-villains, especially the new kid on the block, Vector (Jason Segal).
Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze guns and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential dad.
One of the world’s greatest super-villains has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes in the box office hit Despicable Me.
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Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze guns and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential dad.
One of the world’s greatest super-villains has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes in the box office hit Despicable Me.
Special Features:
- 3 brand new Minion Movies (Home Makeover, Orientation Day and Banana)
- Voices Of Despicable Me
- The World Of Despicable Me
- Despicable Beats
- A Global Effort
- Gru’s Rocket Builder Game
- Super Silly Fun Land Games and feature commentary
- Plus Miss Hattie’s Top Secret Cookie Recipes
- Pocket Blu and U-Control
- 3D version - English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, English Audio Description Track 2.0, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, Dutch DTS Surround 5.1
- 2D version - English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, English Audio Description Track 2.0, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Icelandic, Turkish DTS Surround 5.1
Subtitle:
- 3D version - English SDH, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Polish
- 2D version - English SDH, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Icelandic, Portuguese, Turkish, Arabic
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
I will start but giving my views on the film and the 3D after. The story is very original and highly enjoyable, all the characteurs do what was intended, i.e. Kids cute and loveable and villian evil and annoying! The film has some very funny bits and is quite touching over all I give the film full marks, its nearly my fav film now! Now for the 3D, it made it even better there was no ghosting what so ever, theres excellent depth thro the whole movie and the pop out was even better, the fairground and space scence where amazin and when the rocket landed outside the school it looked like the front of it was a foot from my face! I had no idea home 3D could rival the cinema but this film showed me it can and single handedly justified 1200 for the tv! (samsung ps50c7000) over all this film is quality thro and thro and if you want to show off your 3D tv get this invite your mates round and look at the faces it will be mouths open all round! Just buy it and enjoy!
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
Im not a massive fan of animated films but there really isnt many 3d blu-rays out at the moment so i decided to get this and i watched it last night on my samsung 3d tv, this is the second 3d film i have seen at home and i was surprised at how good it was, the film has some funny parts throughout and the 3d in the film was great, i would have to say that its better than open season 3d which i watched a couple nights before,
overall i would give the 3d in this film an 8/10 and the actual film a 7/10.
overall i would give the 3d in this film an 8/10 and the actual film a 7/10.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
I loved this in the cinema, and it works even better on your 3DTV, using active shutter glasses, if you have not seen it yet, well buy it, the kids and all the family will love it.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Excellent 3D Cartoon
Entertaining story for both adults and children. 3D picture really good. Would recommend this Blue Ray title to everybody with children or without children.
Published 17 hours ago by Dragonking
3D Wonder
I own a lot of 3D blu rays from disney through live action films to documentaries. I have to say Despicable me is one of my favourites. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Denton
Fantastic
This film was gratuatously made for 3d, with a plot diversion to a roller roller coaster, but this is one of the best family films I have seen in a while. Read more
Published 1 month ago by PjCam
Wow..
I recently bought a 3D TV, largely for PS3 games. I wanted to try a 3D film and having seen clips of this at work (I work on a 2D - 3D conversion chip) it looked like a good one to... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Malink
Despicable Me Bluray 3D
it's nice to have this edition .. amazing transfer picture very sharp .. so great for your children .. and the audio very impressive. Read more
Published 3 months ago by young guns
best 3D film ever
I loved this film anyway but this has to be the BEST 3D film i have ever seen, actually feels like youre in the film, i even jumped back at certain parts of it. AMAZING!
Published 3 months ago by JDavey
Priceless!! :-)
I hadn't heard of this film until I spent a week in hospital with a broken leg from a cycling accident. The first time I watched it I was on morphine and thought it was brilliant. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Jimbo P
Happy with this buy :)
3D version: The 3D works really well, no problems, some scenes stick out but there is mainly a lot of depth. Read more
Published 4 months ago by BenMaf
Good film
Not a lot to say about this really, was a really good film and the 3D quality is fantastic, I can really highly recommend it.
Published 6 months ago by hoysey
fine film
it is big story covered behind not very good anime but all togerher make mix like you wath stupid anime just to see how is finish
Published 6 months ago by manyek
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