Despicable+Me

__Summary/ Review__
This family film will take the audience by the heart with the variety of characters that are featured. Gru, the evil villain, adopts three young orphan girls, Margo, Agnes, and Edith, who pray each night that a loving family will adopt them. With a new young villain emerging and making newspaper headlines, Gru must come up with an evil plan for him and his minions (little helpers) to keep their title as the most successful scoundrel alive. Gru comes up with the devious plan to steal the moon but in order to steal the moon he must first steal back the shrink machine which is secured by Vectors high tech weapons. Gru adopts the cooking- selling girls in order to sneak “evil cookie robots” into Vectors house, where the weapon is safely secured. While in the process of planning this historical event, Gru realizes that the girls are much more than just part of his evil preparation, they are a piece of the puzzle to what he has been missing in his life, happiness and acceptance. Unfortunately the day of the event to steal the moon clashes with the girls dance recital. Tentatively, Gru gives back the girls to the orphanage and goes off to steal the moon. While carefully deliberating what is important to him he fights off Vector who has taken the girls and wins the hearts of the children back.

= __**Historical Context**__ = Released July 9, 2010 Despicable Me opened in the United States at the number one spot in the box office and marketed 56.3 million dollars, which makes it the third largest gross animated film for 2010, pulling behind //Toy Story 3// and //Shrek Forever After//. Currently Illuminati Entertainment is in the process of creating an animated film based on Dr. Seuss famous children’s book //The Lorax,// which comes out in theaters Spring 2012.

==  Chris Meledandri was born May 15, 1959 and is the founder and CEO of Illumination Entertainment. Meladandri left his postion as President of 20thCentury Fox Animation in 2007 after helping the animation company amass more than $2 billion in global - box office revenue under his eight years of supervision. Chris Meledandri left 20 th Century Fox Animation in 2007 in order to create Illumination Entertainment.
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=** __Themes__ **= teamwork, abandonment, loyalty, trust

= __Awards__ = In 2010 //Despicable Me// won the Kids Choice Awards for Favorite Animated Movie.

= __Other Films__ =
 *  [|Horton Hears a Who] // ( // 2008), [|Despicable Me] // ( // 2010),   **[|Despicable Me 2 (2013)] [|Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (2012)] [|Hop (2011)] [|Despicable Me (2010)] **[|Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)] [|No Time for Nuts (2006)] [|Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)] [|Robots (2005)] [|Ice Age (2002)] **

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