"I said a DART machine, not...."Despicable Me wisely gets a head start on the similarly-styled MegaMind. Out of all of this year's CG-animated movies, it is most squarely aimed at the younger end of the market, and as a result it is simply (and thinly) plotted, moves at a leisurely pace and is gentle and harmless. Steve Carell gives fading villain Gru surprising pathos, and there are some good visual gags - as given prominence in the trailers, the 'minions' are easily the most entertaining thing on display here. As the CG-animated genre matures, there is an increasing sense of similarity and recycling of style in evidence in films such as this one, but overall Despicable Me offers a pleasant, inoffensive and largely uneventful experience for any but the youngest audience members.
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