Nefario (Russell Brand), a half-deaf old coot who is likely to come up with a fart gun when he was asked to create a dart gun.ĭespicable Me is the first feature from Illumination Entertainment, the new animation division of NBC Universal. Why else would he employ a crew of lovably bumbling little minions who look like yellow pellets with overalls and speak in squeaky gibberish? And surely it isn’t just for his expertise that Gru still keeps around the geriatric mad scientist Dr. They’re those big, innocent-child eyes, the type that can reduce even a stone-hearted master criminal to a puddle of sentimental goo.Īctually, we suspect from the beginning that, belying his gorilla torso and those spidery legs, Gru is really a softie inside.
The girls, however, have their own secret weapon – six, in fact. He’s after a shrink ray, a weapon integral to his moon theft, which he swiped from the North Koreans – only to have it stolen from him, in turn, by Vector. When Gru discovers that Vector has a sweet tooth, he decides to adopt the girls and use them to infiltrate his rival’s lair. Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Emily (Dana Gaier) and Agnes (Elsie Fisher) are inmates of an orphanage run by Miss Hattie (Kristen Wiig), a steely Southern magnolia who forces her charges to sell cookies door-to-door to pay for their upkeep. These obstacles are nothing, however, next to the three diabolically cute orphans who are determined that Gru is going to be their dad. Then there’s his rival, Vector (Jason Segel), a young upstart with cooler weapons, who threatens to beat him at his scheme. There’s a lack of funds for the project, meaning he has to wheedle yet another loan out of the Bank of Evil (formerly Lehman Brothers). There are only a few things standing in his way. Gru, an old-school baddie of James Bond proportions, sees a lunar heist as the crowning achievement of his crooked career. Despicable Me is an inspired comedy, a mash-up of the Bond thrillers and the kids musical Annie. For this cunning little family comedy, Carell gives voice to Gru, a bald, needle-nosed super-villain with a daffy Eastern European accent and an even daffier plot to steal the moon. That said, he’s also fiendishly funny in the new animated 3-D treat Despicable Me. ((Universal Pictures/Illumination Entertainment))įor my money, Steve Carell’s greatest cartoon voice work remains his performance as one half of The Ambiguously Gay Duo on Saturday Night Live. Super-villain Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) plots to steal the moon with the help of his little minions in the computer-animated comedy Despicable Me.
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