Review By Taylor Null

Chris Renaud made a funny animated comedy called"Despicable Me” Some actors from this film are Steve Carell as Gru, Miranda Cosgrove as Margo, Russell Brand as Dr. Nefario, and Jason Segal as Vector. There are three places that this movie takes place. At the Suburban Setting (NY), Secret lab at Grus house, you get there through a chair, and the bank of evil.
In the beginning we find that the pyramid is stolen, but Gru is not the one who did it, it was a new villain named Vector. Now Gru is in trouble because he is not evil enough. Vector and Gru are trying to be more evil thsn the other by both wanting to steel the moon. But to steel the moon they both need a shrink ray, but Vector stole it from Gru so Gru tries to steel it back but there are so many traps that it’s really hard. But then three girls come along to sell cookies to Vector and they got in. The girl’s names are Margo, Edith and Agnes. Dr. Nefario makes cookie robots and the girls sell Vector the cookie robots, which help him steel the shrink ray back.
I personally thought that this was a cute and funny story. I would say that one of my favorite parts was when Vector shrunk Gru’s ship and it turned tiny. When the minions are playing with the drinking thingy, the thing that when you get your water it gurgles. And when Gru takes the girls to the carnival and Agnes sees the big fluffy unicorn and says “it’s so fluffy I’m going to die!" The thing I liked about the camera angles are a lot of things. Like when the news kept on saying “and what will he do next” the camera was shooting almost diagonally from the top. And the roller coaster felt like you would actually on a roller coaster. And lastly when the girls walk into Gru’s house the camera is shooting from the top.
Some cool sound effects are when Gru tries to steel the shrink ray back and Vector sends out his missiles out to get Gru, when the missiles pop out it’s like a clicking noise. And when Gru has the shrink ray and is hanging over Vector and Vectors shark bangs on the glass, like a thud noise.
The special effects were cool too. Like you would think that Gru’s weapons look like any old weapon but then he actually gets them out and they look giant. The costumes were cool, like the ballet costumes, Vectors suit, and the way Gru always wears black.
I would suggest that you buy the movie because 1. The movie isn’t in the movie theater anymore, and 2. I don’t know if there’s a book. But I would really recommend that you but the movie cause it’s a great movie.