Whether cute or wisecracking, you would be hard-pressed to find a film in this medium that does not employ this tactic. Along with jumping on the 3-D bandwagon (my theatre was screening it in normal dimensions) Despicable Me boasts an impressive voice cast, a ploy first used with Robin Williams way back in the days of traditional days of animation with Aladdin, superbly executed slapstick and what I will call the sidekick factor. The strengths of Despicable Me lie within veins commonly found in animated features, but his entry simply utilizes them extremely effectively. Now Universal's Illumination Entertainment has released the audaciously titled Despicable Me and while it may be the "worst" of the trio, it is certainly the most purely entertaining. DreamWorks kicked things off with the surprise sleeper hit How to Train Your Dragon and animation juggernaut Pixar countered with the hotly anticipated Toy Story 3. So far in 2010 we have had three great films from three rival studios. What a year it has been for animated films.
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