{"id":4713,"date":"2016-11-25T11:37:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T16:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=4713"},"modified":"2026-08-14T18:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:35:03","slug":"despicable-me-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=4713","title":{"rendered":"Despicable Me-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Despicable Me-2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Directors: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Steve Carell, Jason Segel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s Review #526<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/70115629.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4714\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/70115629-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"70115629\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/70115629-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/70115629.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed November 25, 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My immediate reaction upon seeing Despicable Me (2010) is that it&#8217;s a cute film, just custom-made for the masses- children and families alike.<\/p>\n<p>This is fine, but I was honestly hoping for something a bit edgier or with more substance, though I still enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>The film is a fun, family-style affair for all ages with a nice story.<\/p>\n<p>It follows a villain named Gru, who competes with other super-villains and hatches a plan to shrink and steal the moon.<\/p>\n<p>He is reformed through three orphans (Margo, Edith, and Agnes) he first uses in his plan, but later comes to love and eventually adopts.<\/p>\n<p>The orphans predictably reform Gru and bring out the nice man within him.<\/p>\n<p>They change his life for the better.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing is wrong with this film, nor is there anything tremendous about it. I know some people loved it.<\/p>\n<p>To me, Despicable Me (2010) was decent, but I wanted a bit more and perhaps a more complex or interesting plot; that is just my taste talking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despicable Me-2010 Directors: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud Starring Steve Carell, Jason Segel Scott&#8217;s Review #526 Reviewed November 25, 2016 Grade: B- My immediate reaction upon seeing Despicable Me (2010) is that it&#8217;s a cute film, just custom-made for the masses- children and families alike. This is fine, but I was honestly hoping for something a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=4713\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Despicable Me-2010<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,37,49,199],"tags":[3082,12231,6724,2732,732,2788,2753,2413,12454,3083,8514,2406,12455],"class_list":["post-4713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-movie-reviews","category-animatedfilms","category-comedies","category-childrensfilms","tag-chris-renaud","tag-danny-mcbride","tag-elsie-fisher","tag-jason-segel","tag-julie-andrews","tag-ken-jeong","tag-kristen-wiig","tag-mindy-kaling","tag-miranda-cosgrove","tag-pierre-coffin","tag-russell-brand","tag-steve-carell","tag-will-arnett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4713"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24129,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions\/24129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}