# Despicable Me...Anyone Seen It? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 11, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-me-anyone-seen-it/546297 "2010-07-11T13:48:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-me-anyone-seen-it/546297/1 "2010-07-11T13:48:49Z")
Saw this yesterday with my sons…we really enjoyed it! Its quite funny, oddly touching and very entertaining, especially in glorious 3-D. Parents, take your kids to see this! ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-me-anyone-seen-it/546297/2 "2010-07-11T16:01:29Z")
I saw it on Friday night and enjoyed it quite a bit. We saw it in 2D as I don’t like the way the 3D dulls the colors, and I like animation to look brighter and more colorful. I thought the movie was cute and funny but seemed to be trying a bit too hard to be a Pixar film, and it just couldn’t get there. A lot of fun bits though and we laughed quite a bit. The touching parts were ok but rather cliche and like I said, seemed to be trying too hard. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-me-anyone-seen-it/546297/3 "2010-07-11T16:21:43Z")
The wifey and I saw it Friday night in 3d. It wasn’t The Incredibles or Toy Story, but I enjoyed it better than I thought I would. I know it’s what they were going for but the youngest girl was the cutest thing ever. Kinda off topic: That owl movie doesn’t look like it’d hold my interest my my god does it look gorgeous. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-me-anyone-seen-it/546297/4 "2010-07-11T17:19:43Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > The wifey and I saw it Friday night in 3d. It wasn’t The Incredibles or Toy Story, but I enjoyed it better than I thought I would. I know it’s what they were going for but the youngest girl was the cutest thing ever. > > … It’s so FLUFFY! I loved it. I wanted to see more stuff with Gru and the kids. And I wanted to see the Fart Gun get more use. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-me-anyone-seen-it/546297/5 "2010-07-11T17:31:38Z")
what is she doing?! she’s freaking me out! ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2010, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-me-anyone-seen-it/546297/6 "2010-07-11T18:06:31Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > The wifey and I saw it Friday night in 3d. It wasn’t The Incredibles or Toy Story, but I enjoyed it better than I thought I would. I know it’s what they were going for but the youngest girl was the cutest thing ever. > > Kinda off topic: **That owl movie doesn’t look like it’d hold my interest my my god does it look gorgeous.** That’s what I thought too. And did you get to see the preview for that _Megamind_ movie? That looks pretty hysterical too! ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-me-anyone-seen-it/546297/7 "2010-07-11T18:16:50Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > That’s what I thought too. And did you get to see the preview for that _Megamind_ movie? That looks pretty hysterical too! Not on this showing but I think I saw it for Toy Story 3. I love Will Ferrel so we’ll be there on opening night. ---
**Author:** ![Helena\_Handbasket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Helena\_Handbasket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena_Handbasket)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-me-anyone-seen-it/546297/8 "2010-07-11T18:44:39Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > I wanted to see more stuff with Gru and the kids. He’s scary… but nice… like SANTA! ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-me-anyone-seen-it/546297/9 "2010-07-11T20:17:53Z")
I simply loved the over-the-top animated weaponry. It reminded me of Acme stuff from the Roadrunner cartoons. And how can you not like those little “bean people”, especially the little aside where three of them go to the mall dressed as husband, wife and child? ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-me-anyone-seen-it/546297/10 "2010-07-11T21:44:39Z")
Hmm, looks grim. According to Sunday estimates, this movie made 60 million. However, Predators only made 25 million, and it was R rated. I hope Predators didn’t get screwed by kids buying DM tickets and sneaking in. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-me-anyone-seen-it/546297/11 "2010-07-11T23:55:26Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > Hmm, looks grim. According to Sunday estimates, this movie made 60 million. However, Predators only made 25 million, and it was R rated. I hope Predators didn’t get screwed by kids buying DM tickets and sneaking in. Maybe nobody cares about Predators? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-me-anyone-seen-it/546297/12 "2010-07-12T00:03:29Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > Maybe nobody cares about Predators? Or maybe (like me) they are looking forward to seeing _Predators_ but are content to wait for the BluRay. On the other hand, bet your ass that I’ll be seeing a 3D screening of _Despicable Me_. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-me-anyone-seen-it/546297/13 "2010-07-12T00:29:10Z")
> [@Helena\_Handbasket](#): > > He’s scary… but nice… like SANTA! I was the only one in the theater that laughed at this line. I thought the 3D was the best that I’d seen all season (I didn’t see Avatar.) It started out very slow, but over all I enjoyed it. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-me-anyone-seen-it/546297/14 "2010-07-12T04:13:53Z")
I was not impressed by the 3D in the film. But I really liked it. It was far more of a ‘kids’ movie than anything Pixar has made for the last 10 or years. I’m not saying the Pixar movies are bad, but they don’t seem to think of kids as their main target audience. And really it’s parents who buy the tickets so why should they? ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-me-anyone-seen-it/546297/15 "2010-07-12T04:31:25Z")
I laughed hard at the Santa line too. I was very nearly on the floor and could hardly breathe from laughing so much when the one minion cracked and shook the other minion so he could serve as a glow stick. I love glow sticks! > [@Superhal](#): > > According to Sunday estimates, this movie made 60 million. However, Predators only made 25 million, and it was R rated. I hope Predators didn’t get screwed by kids buying DM tickets and sneaking in. Even if that happened, it’s not Despicable Me’s fault. If Despicable Me hadn’t opened, they would have done it with some other movie. You can’t be suggesting that Predators should have been rated PG-13 so it could make more money, are you? My husband and I have eclectic tastes and saw Despicable Me _and_ Predators the same evening, and enjoyed both. The next day we went to the Gene Siskel Center and saw François Truffaut’s **Fahrenheit 451** (with a video teleconference with Ray Bradbury after the movie) then walked around and saw some of Transformers 3 being filmed, lots of shit being blown up real good, THEN went back to the Siskel and saw the original Grindhouse. Eclectic. Tastes. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-me-anyone-seen-it/546297/16 "2010-07-12T05:12:52Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > I’m not saying the Pixar movies are bad, but they don’t seem to think of kids as their main target audience. And really it’s parents who buy the tickets so why should they? Should kids be toy manufacturers’ main target audience? I mean, why should they be? It’s the parents who buy them at the store. Kids drag their parents to see movies all the time, just like kids get their parents to buy them toys. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-me-anyone-seen-it/546297/17 "2010-07-12T13:30:45Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > I was the only one in the theater that laughed at this line. > > I thought the 3D was the best that I’d seen all season (I didn’t see Avatar.) > > It started out very slow, but over all I enjoyed it. I completely agree about the 3D. I’m a big fan of this latest generation of 3D and have pretty much seen every recent movie in that format, and I thought this particular movie was brilliantly done. The only other movie that did as well with it was (as you mention) Avatar. The Pixar movies use of 3D is very subtle. I like it, but it seems to be used more for depth of imagery than any “OMG, that spear is right in my face!” moments. DM did a good job of delivering both. I swear, that scene towards the end of the movie where the girls had to jump from Vector’s ship onto Groo’s gave me vertigo. I could feel that tingling sensation in my nether regions that told me “you’re way up in the air…BE SCARED!”…I don’t generally get that sensation from watching movies. At least, not kiddie movies! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-me-anyone-seen-it/546297/18 "2010-07-12T14:32:54Z")
Haven’t seen it yet but just from all the previews and trailers I thought Gru looked like a reincarnation of Dr. Evil. I even thought it was voiced by Mike Myers until I saw it was Steve Carell. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-me-anyone-seen-it/546297/19 "2010-07-12T14:44:15Z")
We chose to go 2D, I doubt we missed much and we all enjoyed the film. It was fun and funny and pretty well done. The zaniness was much closer to Loony Tunes than Pixar. A fun little romp. (I am part of the curmudgeon camp that is hoping 3D is another fad that will once again fade away. I don’t enjoy wearing the glasses to watch a film and the premium theaters are charging. An extra $4 per ticket is what the local theater does. I’m holding out for a holographic projector I guess.) ---
**Author:** ![drillrod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@drillrod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drillrod)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-me-anyone-seen-it/546297/20 "2010-07-12T15:15:55Z")
My wife doesn’t care for the 3-D thing, so we saw the 2-D version. We all loved it. I haven’t laughed so hard at the movies in a long time. I need minions! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/despicable-me-anyone-seen-it/546297.md?page=2)