Despicable Me 2 Dvd

Despicable Me 2 is a 2013 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Illumination Entertainment for Universal Pictures and animated by Illumination Mac Guff. It is the sequel to Despicable Me (2010) and the second installment in the Despicable Me franchise. The film was directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, and written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio. Steve Carell, Russell Brand, Miranda Cosgrove, Elsie Fisher, and Dana Gaier reprise their roles as Gru, Dr. Nefario, Margo, Agnes, and Edith, respectively. Kristen Wiig, who played Miss Hattie in the first film, voices agent Lucy Wilde, while Ken Jeong, who played the Talk Show Host, voices Floyd Eagle-san. New cast members include Benjamin Bratt as Eduardo “El Macho” Pérez and Steve Coogan as Silas Ramsbottom, head of the fictional Anti-Villain League (AVL).

Plot

A mysterious ship using a giant magnet steals a highly potent mutagen known as PX-41 from a secret laboratory in the Arctic Circle. The Anti-Villain League (AVL), led by Silas Ramsbottom, sends one of its agents, Lucy Wilde to recruit Gru, a former supervillain. At the AVL headquarters, Silas tells him to track down the culprit of the person who stole the lab and recover the mutagen. However, Gru refuses, claiming that he is now a legitimate father. Longing to resume his criminal life, Dr. Nefario, Gru’s friend and assistant, leaves Gru for new employment. This convinces a reluctant Gru to investigate the theft and work with Lucy.

The pair begin their search in the Paradise Shopping Mall, disguised as bakery employees. Gru immediately suspects a Mexican restaurant owner, Eduardo Pérez, of being the infamous “El Macho”, a supervillain who supposedly died by riding a shark into an active volcano with 250 pounds of dynamite strapped to his chest, though his body was never found. Gru and Lucy break into Eduardo’s restaurant at night but find no proof. Meanwhile, Agnes, who dreams of having a mother one day, believes that Gru will fall in love with Lucy. Gru denies it, saying his relationship with Lucy is only professional.

Despite holding Eduardo as his prime suspect, Gru agrees to pursue others, including wig merchant Floyd Eagle-san, where he discovers traces of PX-41. After witnessing Eduardo’s two-timing son, Antonio, woo Margo and invite everyone to his Cinco de Mayo party, Gru renews his focus on Eduardo. The next day, the AVL arrest Eagle-san after finding an almost-empty jar of the mutagen in his shop, and Ramsbottom closes the investigation. Lucy reassigns to Australia and gives Gru her lipstick taser as a gift before leaving. Gru finally discovers that Eduardo is El Macho as he suspected. Gru discovers that El Macho, who has hired Nefario as a partner, has been abducting Gru’s Minions and using the stolen PX-41 serum to make them rabid and indestructible. El Macho plans to launch rockets full of the evil Minions into major cities to dominate the world. He offers Gru the chance to team up with him, but Gru walks away with the girls and El Macho sends one of his evil Minions after him.

Lucy later arrives at the party right after Gru leaves, but El Macho captures her. Nefario rejoins Gru and tells him that Lucy has been captured, Gru goes back to his fortress with two of his own Minions. Meanwhile, back at Gru’s house, the evil Minion finds his home and attacks the girls, but Nefario comes to their rescue as he had created an antidote to the serum and pours it in their jelly reserves. Gru arrives at El Macho’s fortress with two of his own disguised Minions, but their cover is blown and the evil Minions attack and corner them. Fighting along with the girls, Gru’s own Minions, and Nefario, Gru and his team return all the evil Minions using the antidote to their normal state. El Macho applies the mutagen on himself to attack Gru, and Gru and Nefario defeat El Macho.

Gru finds Lucy strapped to a TNT-loaded shark rocket and starts to untie her, but El Macho’s pet chicken Pollito launches the rocket, sending it flying towards the same volcano where El Macho previously faked his death. Lucy accepts Gru’s invitation for a date, and they jump in the ocean before the rocket explodes in the volcano. Gru joins the AVL, and he and Lucy eventually get married, giving Margo, Edith, and Agnes a mother.

Cast

Miranda Cosgrove and Steve Carell at the Australian premiere of Despicable Me 2
Steve Carell as Felonious Gru, a former supervillain turned father (and then member of the Anti-Villain League).
Kristen Wiig as Lucy Wilde, an Anti-Villain League agent and then Gru’s love interest. Wiig previously voiced Miss Hattie in the first film.
Benjamin Bratt as Eduardo “El Macho” Pérez, the owner of Salsa & Salsa, a Mexican restaurant in the Paradise Mall, and the mastermind behind the theft of the PX-41 serum. Al Pacino was originally cast in the role and had recorded all his lines, but left the film due to creative differences.