I liked it a lot, it’s funny and also very sweet because this ‘despicable’ man who wants to be the greatest of all villains (meaning thief, this is a cartoon and there is no death) finally falls in love with three little girls, three orphans who for a while show him what does it mean to have someone who loves you, to never be alone again.
The three children are lovely because they have different ages, different personalities, they want a home and a father-figure but they also know how to depend only on the three of them, there are no temper-tantrums, no loud crying, only ‘four people’ that learn that being together is better than being alone.
And then there are the minions :lol: they all look like the container inside the kiinder-eggs, all yellow, all making strange noises, strange but somehow adorable, and they are all cheerful and funny.
Details:
It starts with a group of tourists in Egypt, when a little brat escapes his mother’s leash and runs away eventually falling on a pyramid... which turns out to be fake, an inflatable one, and the news spread all over the world, someone stole a pyramid!
Gru lives his life threatening his neighbour’s dog’s life, using his freezing-ray to avoid the queue at the bar and making children cry and stealing... and when he hears about that pyramid he sets off to become again the greatest villain by stealing the moon! He asks the help of doctor Nefario and asks the bank for a loan... a special one, the Bank of Evil: he explains his project but the loan is denied because he doesn’t have the shrinking-ray yet - he plans to build a rocket to go near the moon, shrink it and steal it.
A younger new villain, Vector, is the one who stole the pyramid, and when Gru manages to steal the shrinking-ray with the help of his minions, Vector immediately steals it from him !
So now Gru tries in any way to steal it back, but he can’t even enter Vector’s super-guarded place.
When he sees that three little girls are allowed entrance, he has a plan: to adopt the children long enough to steal the ray.
Margo is the older one, then there’s Edith always with her pink cap on her head, and little Agnes. They live in an orphanage and go around selling biscuits hoping to sell enough so not to be put inside the ‘box of shame’ ... :(
He’s totally not prepared to deal with little girls - he even put bowls on the floor with food as if they were pets. He puts them to sleep in three bomb-beds ... and has to take them to dance-class..
He asks Nefario for bisco-robots but at first he gets disco-robots because the old man misunderstood... then finally it’s cookie-selling-time, and the girls are immediately allowed to enter because Vector likes their cookies, and the cookie-bot that Gru put in there help him to steal the ray back.
On their way back, the girls asks for a day at the luna-park and he agrees thinking he could leave them there, but of course they are too little and he has to stay with them... and they play and he has fun I guess because the four of them get home together and full of toys and cotton-candy and Gru even has the face all painted like a cat or something.
The loan is still denied and he has no money to go on with his plan, but the little girls give him all they have - a few coins - and the minions follow enthusiastically giving him all they have, plus Gru instructs them to sell everything he has to get money, and so they go on with the plan.
The children are so cute and sweet, and they like each other now.
We see that Vector is the son of the bank’s director who refused the loan.
The launch is scheduled the same day of the dance-recital, and Gru wonders what to do because he’d like to go see them, but Nefario is against it, saying that he’s losing focus and ruining the plan, and even arranges for the children to be sent back to the orphanage.
He is sad but lets them go. He moves on with the plan, but without enthusiasm now. He puts on his pink space-suit (after he put it in the washing-machine together with the girls pink-tutus).
The launch goes perfectly, he reaches the moon, shrinks it and takes it. He rushes back hoping to get there on time for the recital, but he’s too late, everyone’s left. He finds a ransom note, though. Vector has taken the girls away.
He asks for the moon (literally I mean) in exchange for the girls, and Gru yields immediately, goes to his place and surrenders the moon. Vector is the real villain though, and he takes his word back, doesn’t release the girls and instead flies away with them and the moon.
Nefario warns him that everything that has been shrinked will soon return to its original volume, and the bigger it was the fastest it will be to return normal.
Gru, Nefario and the minions chase Vector to rescue the girls. The moon becomes bigger and bigger until it destroys Vector’s ship and goes back up to its original place, with Vector on top.
This is a cartoon, it doesn’t matter that he takes away the moon and nothing on Earth happens (other than surfers being unable to surf anymore), or that the moon goes back to its original place by itself... of course it doesn’t make sense, that’s part of the rules, this is like a fairytale, it’s not like a girl could really sleep for a hundred years before waking up and still be a teenager. Those things don’t matter in this movie, of course.
Now both the moon and the pyramid has been given back, Gru is again together with the three little girls and they are so sweet together. He reads for them a bedtime story he wrote himself based on their own story, and gives them a goodnight-kiss - first Agnes, then Edith, and when it’s Margo’s turn she jumps up and hugs him tight. Outside their room, a long line of minions awaiting for their goodnight kiss too :-))
So sweet.
The movie ends with the girls dancing for a private recital, for Gru, Nefario, all the minions and Gru’s mother (who looks totally like Red’s grandma in Hoodwinked).
ITA cattivissimo me
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