Review: "Despicable Me" (2010)

Anytime I feel like a movie stole something from another movie, even just an idea or style, it aggravates me. What aggravates me even more is when I read reviews from critics who acknowledge that and don't seem to care. If you are thieving to come up with a decent story, I will hate you when I rate you.

Dr. Evil in his own animated series, within a wannabe Pixar world, was revolting. The character had an ounce of my interest in the first half, and none in the second. There were no good characters in the whole movie, the whole time. Of course there were some moments where my cheek may have twitched, but no more. The cleverness felt stolen. The "minions" were a Pixar ripoff of the 'Toy Story' aliens, the main character was the cheesiest and most boring version of villain.
From around the critical community, everyone agree the 'Toy Story' aliens providing the overwhelming majority of the fun, and I am in total agreement. The story concentrates on attempts at comedy in the first half, but loses its identity in the second half when it tries to do what all failed comedies do, change its consistency into subtracting comedy and adding story. Anyone who can seriously walk away, without being a 5 year old, and having more than 2 or 3 memorable moments sitting in your mind, makes the project a fail. If I was watching a stand-up comedian, I think the viewing audience above the age of 6 would have begun to throw stones. I might be able to come up with 2 moments, which I was elevated from boredom to semi-interested.

This movie just proves to me Pixar is the only company worthy of this style animation. Every non-Pixar project projects the whole film into the previews, or at least every moment you would have found funny if you hadn't seen or heard it before. Pixar is flawless in its marketing techniques and yet nobody around seems to be taking notes.

I just saw through the story like I had already seen it before, every scene could be predicted beforehand. It is a miracle critics found more enjoyment out of this than the rest of the mainstream viewers. This movie and its creators are all miracles of life, these people contradict the theory of evolution.

"Despicable Me"
4 / 10