Despicable Me Movie Trailer #2

Despicable Me

In July we posted the teaser trailer for Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s Despicable Me, a computer animated film about a trio of orphan girls cause the normally deplorable Gru to rethink his plan to steal the moon. The trailer mostly focused on a world which has had famous landmarks stolen and completely replaced by giant blow-up replicas. The main character of the movie - Gru, who is voiced by Steve Carell, made a little more than a cameo appearance. This new trailer focuses more on the world’s #2 super-villain character Gru, and his attempts to break into a secret lair of the world’s #1 super-villain Vector.

The voice cast line-up is pretty impressive, with a handful of Judd Apatow regulars with a couple nice surprises: Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Kristen Wiig, Will Arnett, Danny McBride, Jemaine Clement, Miranda Cosgrove and Julie Andrews. However, you don’t really get to hear any of these voices in action in the new trailer. The preview plays more like an old Looney Toons short than a proper trailer.  Watch the trailer after the jump, and leave your thoughts in the comments below.

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In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by a small army of minions, we discover Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon (Yes, the moon!) in Universal’s new 3-D CGI feature, Despicable Me.Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential Dad. The world’s greatest villain has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes.

Despicable Me hits theaters on July 9th 2010.

  • super_aj
    The animation looks great. I like the idea of the mostly silent physical comedy concept of the trailer. Until the keyboard ass rubbing and hip hop track at the end, that just screams "Dreamworks". Everything else looked great though.
  • Octoberist
    The animation is beautiful. In fact, it's almost Pixar quality..
  • Slatters
    With animation its always a matter of opinion, but I'd say this surpasses Pixar in terms of visual quality. Story will be another matter.
  • super_aj
    You're right, I just watched it again. The animation is pretty amazing. I don't have Up right in front of me to compare but I feel like this trailer has higher quality animation, if thats at all possible.
  • carlos
    the song in the trailer is by Pharrell Williams "Despicable Me"
  • Ashitaka
    The animation is beautiful. This looks like to be influenced by Spy vs Spy, which isn't a bad thing at all.
  • AJ
    That's exactly what I thought, there's a lot of Spy vs. Spy to it
  • Actually doesn't seem that bad...the voice-cast seems almost flawless (even though there was very little dialog in the trailer) I might end up checking this one out.
  • Loved the original teaser, and the visual style (esp. character design) of this one just accentuates that.

    I would LOVE a live-action movie with that cast, though...
  • Tetsuo_Man
    I honestly 100% can't believe you liked the original teaser. I'm sorry but it was just one of the longest worst things I have ever seen... every voice grated on me and the visuals looked like Hey Arnold (except Hey Arnold was hand drawn and good). This trailer was better, but Gru just looks annoying to me... he looks like Danny Devito as The Penguin, but not....
  • greggorybasore
    Oh man this looks like silly fun goodness.
  • presto117
    as someone who LOVES Pixar and could care less for most things that aren't Pixar, this looks fantastic! can't wait to see it! and i had no idea it was in 3D until the end of the trailer, since nothing looked gimicky. can't wait.
  • capawesome
    This looks fucking amazing
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