Despicable Me 2 & Wreck It Ralph
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Despicable Me 2: I liked it.
• I loved Lucy. She was my favourite part. I went in expecting that she'd be the competent, serious super spy but instead we got someone who was competent but also an enthusiastic newbie who was having a lot of fun with everything. It was great. I also enjoyed her relationship with Grue.
• Grue's relationship with the girls (and minions) was great. He dressed up as a fairy for them! That was adorable.
• I really wish that we'd seen Lucy and the girls interacting more. Agnes mini-storyline about wanting a mother would have worked much better if she had actually interacted with Lucy.
• Grue's date was really annoying. Lucy saving him was great and I enjoyed their bonding but I hated how Shannon was portrayed.
• The minions were as great as the first movie though I thought there was just a little too much focus on them. They do better as an amusing background.
Wreck It Ralph: I liked this one too.
• I loved how the whole concept played out. The power bars as grand central stations and characters whose games were shut down living there. Being able to visit other games. All the characters hanging out together. The villain meetings.
• I loved the Ralph/Vanellope relationship. They were really lovely. The car making/learning to drive scenes were the best. I loved that at the end they saved each other.
• I loved how at the end Ralph and Felix invited all the homeless game characters to live in their game and created a bonus level for them.
• I didn't like Vanellope declaring that being a princess isn't her and instead that she's instituting a democracy with her as president (because that's how democracies work!). On the other hand, her throwing aside the princess dress for her normal look did work for me.
• I didn't like the bit with the mean racers once everyone's memories came back. I wish it had been less them begging her forgiveness and being afraid of what she will do and more them being appalled by their actions and sorry, and that there had been a real friendship between all of them.
• I loved Lucy. She was my favourite part. I went in expecting that she'd be the competent, serious super spy but instead we got someone who was competent but also an enthusiastic newbie who was having a lot of fun with everything. It was great. I also enjoyed her relationship with Grue.
• Grue's relationship with the girls (and minions) was great. He dressed up as a fairy for them! That was adorable.
• I really wish that we'd seen Lucy and the girls interacting more. Agnes mini-storyline about wanting a mother would have worked much better if she had actually interacted with Lucy.
• Grue's date was really annoying. Lucy saving him was great and I enjoyed their bonding but I hated how Shannon was portrayed.
• The minions were as great as the first movie though I thought there was just a little too much focus on them. They do better as an amusing background.
Wreck It Ralph: I liked this one too.
• I loved how the whole concept played out. The power bars as grand central stations and characters whose games were shut down living there. Being able to visit other games. All the characters hanging out together. The villain meetings.
• I loved the Ralph/Vanellope relationship. They were really lovely. The car making/learning to drive scenes were the best. I loved that at the end they saved each other.
• I loved how at the end Ralph and Felix invited all the homeless game characters to live in their game and created a bonus level for them.
• I didn't like Vanellope declaring that being a princess isn't her and instead that she's instituting a democracy with her as president (because that's how democracies work!). On the other hand, her throwing aside the princess dress for her normal look did work for me.
• I didn't like the bit with the mean racers once everyone's memories came back. I wish it had been less them begging her forgiveness and being afraid of what she will do and more them being appalled by their actions and sorry, and that there had been a real friendship between all of them.