DESPICABLE
ME 2
releasing on 5th july
Genre: 3D-CG comedy
adventure
Cast: Steve Carell,
Kristen Wiig, Al Pacino, Miranda
Cosgrove,
Dana
Gaier, Elsie Fisher, Russell Brand, Ken Jeong, Steve Coogan, Nasim Pedrad,
Moises Arias
Directed by Chris
Renaud & Pierre Coffin
Written by: Cinco
Paul & Ken Daurio
Based on Characters
Created by: Sergio Pablos, Cinco Paul
& Ken Daurio
Produced by: Chris Meledandri, Janet
Healy
Universal
Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s worldwide blockbuster Despicable
Me entertained audiences around the globe in 2010, grossing more than $540
million and becoming the 10th-biggest animated motion picture in
U.S. history. In summer 2013, get ready
for more Minion madness in Despicable Me 2.
Chris
Meledandri and his acclaimed filmmaking team create an all-new comedy adventure
featuring the return of (former?) super-villain Gru (Steve Carell), his
adorable girls, the unpredictably hilarious Minions...and a host of new and outrageously
funny characters.
Krumpers
and Shark Cowboys:
Who’s
Despicable?
Now that Gru has
(mostly) hung up his freeze ray and is in the business of making barely
digestible jellies and jams, he’s earned a few more friends (as well as his
fair share of enemies). Below is a guide
to the returning and new dastardly and delightful players who populate Gru’s
world:
·
Gru (Steve Carell), one of the
world’s greatest super-villains, has given up his despicable ways and is now on
a quest to become the perfect dad. While
juggling all that, he is recruited by a super-secret crime-fighting
organization, which puts him in the unlikely position of having to work with
the good guys to help save the world.
Usually fearless, Gru is now coping with the challenges of his girls
growing up and wanting desperately to ask a woman out on a date. Both of which cause him to totally freak out.
·
Lucy (Kristen Wiig) is a cunning secret agent
who has teamed up with Gru to hunt down an extremely dangerous
super-villain. She loves one-upping Gru
with her quirky gadgets and has perfected her own form of martial arts by
combining Jujitsu, KravMaga, Aztec warfare and krumping. Unlike Gru, she has trouble containing her
overabundance of joy and excitement, which tends to draw unwanted
attention…especially when going under cover.
She keeps pace with Gru, despite always looking stylish in her six-inch
heels.
·
Margo (Miranda Cosgrove) is Gru’s oldest
daughter and the backbone of the family.
She’s the responsible one who looks out for her sisters and keeps the
family together. However, now that she’s
growing up, she becomes preoccupied with texting her friends and starts
noticing boys her age, which drives Gru crazy.
·
Edith (Dana Gaier), Gru’s middle daughter, is
an incredibly mischievous and sarcastic tomboy.
She asks for forgiveness rather than permission. She is going through a ninja phase and is
always looking for an opportunity to take part in Gru’s secret-agent
action. She loves to play pranks and
cause trouble with Dr. Nefario’s gadgets.
·
Agnes
(Elsie Fisher) is Gru’s youngest
daughter and the heart of the family.
She’s obsessed with unicorns and anything fluffy. She’s so adorable that her hugs can melt even
the hardest super-villain’s heart.
·
Dr.
Nefario (Russell Brand) is Gru’s
trusted, slightly forgetful, and very, very old mad scientist. He’s losing his hearing, which causes him to
accidentally invent weapons with disastrously unintended consequences. With Gru busy being a dad, Dr. Nefario begins
to long for the good-old days when they were focused on doing evil.
·
Gru’s loyal yellow, gibberish-speaking Minions (Pierre Coffin and Chris
Renaud) love causing mischief and mayhem almost as much as they love
bananas. They are easily distracted and
can be unpredictable, curious and subversively sweet. They are extremely competitive with each
other. This can lead to sudden slap
fights, but if someone from the outside tries to harm them or Gru’s family,
they become fiercely protective.
·
Evil
Minions (Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud) are the purple,
crazy-haired and even more dim-witted versions of Gru’s happy yellow
Minions. They are indestructible,
mindless eating machines that not only eat everything in your refrigerator, but
they eat the refrigerator as well!
·
El Macho (Benjamin Bratt) is the most ruthless,
dangerous, and as his name implies, macho villain there ever was. That is…until he died riding a shark into the
mouth of an active volcano with 250 pounds of dynamite strapped to his
chest. However, his body was never
found, and all that was ever retrieved was a pile of singed chest hair.
·
Eduardo (Benjamin Bratt) is the extremely warm,
charming and flirty owner of the popular Salsa & Salsa restaurant whose
passionate Latin dancing causes women to swoon.
He has a larger-than-life personality that is dwarfed only by the size
of his waistline. But is Eduardo
secretly the No. 1 super-villain on the AVL’s most wanted list?
·
Antonio
(Moises Arias) is Eduardo’s cute,
rebellious and confident son. He is a
ladies’ man just like his father, and when Margo sees him in the mall and their
eyes lock…it’s all over. He feels the
same way about her and is willing to stand up to an overprotective Gru to get
closer to the girl he loves.
·
Floyd (Ken Jeong)is one of the shop owners at
the local mall where Gru and Lucy work secretly undercover. Floyd runs the Eagle Hair Club for Men and
has the perfect suggestion for how to make Gru more attractive to the ladies
who are, ahem, lining up to date him.
Beneath his outlandish exterior, Floyd may or may not have a very dark
side.
·
Species unknown, possibly a cross between a pit
bull and a piranha with the attitude to match, Kyle is Gru’s guard dog.
When he first met the girls, all he could think about was trying to eat
them. Now, he can’t imagine his life
without their tucking him into bed every night.
—despicable me 2—
