Size: 700MB
Directed by Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
Starring : Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, Will Arnett, Kristen Wiig, Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, Elsie Fisher
Running time : 95 minutes
Country : United States
Language : English
PLOT
In the middle of a suburban neighborhood sits a black house with a dead lawn. The neighbors do not know that hidden deep beneath this home is the vast secret hideout of the supervillain Gru (Steve Carell) and his army of Minions which are tiny yellow pill-shaped creatures in overalls and goggles, who speak in an indistinctive language. When he learns of the Pyramid theft, his pride is badly wounded and he resolves to pull the biggest heist in world history by stealing the Moon. Gru tries to get a loan from the local Bank of Evil, where he meets a young supervillain named Vector (Jason Segel). While Gru is reading through the blueprints for his Moon heist rocket, Vector annoys him by talking about his name and showing him his newest weapon, a gun that shoots piranhas. Mr. Perkins (Will Arnett), the bank president, refuses to give Gru a loan until he obtains the shrink ray necessary for the plan. He tells Gru that he is getting too old and the new supervillains are younger with more money producing schemes, like Vector who is revealed to be the one who stole the Pyramid of Giza. As Gru leaves the bank, he shoots Vector in the head with his freeze ray while he is trying to reload his piranha gun.
Gru and his minions steal the shrink ray from a secret lab in East Asia, but Vector promptly steals it from him and shrinks his ship as revenge for freezing his head; Gru attempts to get it back, but all his attempts to enter the base prove futile. After seeing three orphaned girls named Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier), and Agnes (Elsie Fisher) get into Vector's lair to sell cookies, Gru adopts them from Miss Hattie (Kristen Wiig), the girls' nasty mistress from the local orphanage, in order to use them to steal back the shrink ray. Vector has placed a large cookie order, so Gru has his assistant Dr. Nefario (Russell Brand), build several cookie-shaped robots to slip into the boxes. The cookie robots are designed to sneak into Vector's lair from the inside and help steal the shrink ray from Vector's vault. The theft nearly fails when the robots inadvertently seal Gru inside the vault, but he and his minions eventually escape through the main entrance.
On the way home the girls ask to go to an amusement park called Super Silly Fun Land. Gru agrees to take them, intending to leave the girls there, but is forced to ride the roller coaster with them and ends up having fun with them and cares about them. Back at home, he fine-tunes his plan and presents it to Mr. Perkins while being interrupted by the girls. Perkins surprises him by again refusing him the loan, claiming that while he doesn't have a problem with the plan, he doesn't want Gru to do it, he wants a younger villain to do it. Gru has a flashback of his childhood, depicting his wanting to go to the moon after seeing the first moon landing. While he tried to impress his mother (Julie Andrews) with models (and an actual working model) and make her proud of him, she seemed indifferent to her son's efforts. Perkins phones Vector (revealed to be his son Victor, who named himself after the mathematical term) revealing that Gru has the shrink ray. Vector recognizes the girls that sold him cookies and realizes they must be working for Gru. He reassures his father that he will get the Moon first. Gru almost abandons his plan due to lack of funds, but the girls and the minions take up a collection to keep it going.
After a month or so passes, Nefario, beginning to see the girls as a distraction to Gru, contacts Miss Hattie, who arrives to take the girls back to the orphanage, as Nefario had claimed that Gru wanted to give them back. Both Gru and the girls are heartbroken. The moon heist and the girls' important ballet recital fall on the same day. With a broken heart, Gru flies off to the moon.
Gru shrinks the Moon, pockets it, and rushes back to Earth when he finds the recital ticket (originally given to him by Agnes and slipped into his pocket by one of the minions prior to the launch) and realizes he has time to catch it. However, it has ended by the time he arrives. On the seat that the girls reserved for him, he finds a note from Vector which is on the back of the paper on his reserved seat, demanding the moon, in exchange for the girls. After Gru hands over the moon, Vector reneges on the deal, keeping the girls and the moon. This enrages Gru, who storms Vector's lair, his defenses proving useless. Vector leaves his lair in an escape pod with the girls inside. Gru chases after them, climbing the disguised Pyramid attempting to hitchhike on the exterior of the ship, and nearly falls to his death, but is rescued by Dr. Nefario piloting the same ship that Vector shrank, which returned to its original size. Nefario reveals that the effects of the shrink ray are not permanent and the effect wears off at a rate proportional to its original mass (which he calls the "Nefario Principle"). As Gru gives chase to Vector, the effects of the shrink ray on the Moon begin to wear off, causing the Moon to grow and smash open the glass bubble holding the girls. Gru rescues them with the help of his minions, while the (rapidly-expanding) Moon wrecks Vector's controls, causing his ship to hyperjump and carry the moon back into orbit.
After this, the news is swarming with hype about the moon being returned with countries all over the world wondering who the mysterious new "hero" is and what they will do next.
Gru and the girls settle down to live a happy life as a family while Vector is stranded on the Moon with a minion that drank a sample of an anti-gravity potion and floated out of the lab after Nefario forgot to close the skylight. The girls give a special recital for the minions, Gru, and his mother, who after years of neglecting her son, finally tells him she is proud of him. The music changes from Swan Lake to You Should Be Dancing, and everyone present rushes onstage to dance.
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