Perhaps the most surprising thing about Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud’s Despicable Me 2 is that it seems far less ambitious than its predecessor. Sporting little in the way of character development as well as a fairly standard plot, the film flirts with being a throwaway exercise throughout. With a running time of 98 minutes, […]
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Reunion at the core of Monsters University
With Cars 2 and Brave, Pixar Studios showed that they too could deliver mediocre animated films much like their competition. The problem with those two films was that they lacked the heart and pathos that made nearly all of the company’s previous efforts so distinctive. Some have claimed that increased input by the corporate bigwigs […]
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Wreck-it Ralph’s clever odyssey
My father always used to say that he hated taking us to Disney animated films, yet I remember him being the one who laughed the most at what was happening on the screen. Of course, that’s the secret where making a full-length cartoon is concerned – you need to appeal not only to the kids […]
