( EW.com ) -- Gru , the bald and beetle-browed rascal hero of `` Despicable Me 2 , '' is an infectious imp â€ ” as voiced by Steve Carell , he 's like Uncle Fester with the personality of Nikita Khrushchev . But in the first `` Despicable Me '' ( 2010 ) , he was a supervillain with a grand plan ( he wanted to steal the moon ) , and in the surprisingly toothless sequel , he has been neutered into a boring nice guy . The co-directors , Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud , create a seductively tactile computer-animated landscape in which gentle slapstick rules the day . For some reason , though , they have mostly left out the flashes of egomaniacal dastardliness that even a movie for kids can thrive on ( e.g. , the far superior Will Ferrell animation Megamind ) . Kristen Wiig voices Lucy , the Anti-Villain League agent who has a crush on Gru and recruits him to be a spy . You keep waiting for Wiig to display some of her flaked-out inspiration , but she , too , has been given almost nothing to play but sweetness and light . The best thing in the movie is the army of chattery yellow minions who are injected with a serum that transforms them into gnashing purple beasties . By the end , every child in the audience will want his or her own monster-minion toy . Adults will just regret the way that `` Despicable Me 2 '' betrays the original film 's devotion to bad-guy gaiety . Grade : C. CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . © 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved .
The film is similar to the original original . This time the main character , is a nice guy . Reviewer said the best thing about the film is the minions .