Despicable Me 2 (2013)

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  Runtime:98 minutes

• Directors: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud

• Country:USA

• Actors:
  Gru (voice)

  Steve Carell
  Floyd (voice)

  Ken Jeong
  Lucy Wilde (voice)

  Kristen Wiig
  Dr. Nefario (voice)

  Russell Brand
  Margo (voice)

  Miranda Cosgrove
  Antonio (voice)

  Moises Arias
  Eduardo (voice)

  Benjamin Bratt
  Silas (voice)

  Steve Coogan
  Agnes (voice) (as Elsie Fisher)

  Elsie Kate Fisher
  Edith (voice)

  Dana Gaier

• Language:English

• Genres:Animation, Comedy, Family

• Writers:
  Ken Daurio

   
  Cinco Paul

   

• Producers:
  Janet Healy

  producer  
  Christopher Meledandri

  producer  

• Quotes:
  [Agent Lucy sends Gru, completly soaked and covered with sea creatures, out of the car trunk of her spy car; from trailer]
  Gru: [completly soaked; weakly] Pins and needles!
  
  
  
  [from trailer]
  Agnes: Are you really gonna save the world?
  Gru: That's right, baby! Gru's back in the game with cool cars... gadgets... and weapons!
  
  
  
  [from trailer]
  Gru: Good night, Edith.
  [gives Edith a good night kiss]
  Gru: Good night, Margo.
  [gives Margo a goodnight kiss, but returns]
  Gru: Whoa, whoa, hold your horses. Who are you texting?
  Margo: My friend Avery.
  Gru: Avery!
  [confused]
  Gru: Huh? Avery? Is that a girl's name or a boy's name?
  Margo: Does it matter?
  Gru: No. No, it doesn't matter unless it's a boy!
  
  

• Composers:Heitor Pereira Pharrell Williams 

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Now You See Me Movie Review

Ratings:3/5  Review By:  Renuka Vyavahare Site:Times of India

The film has a novel and promising premise. The gang's cat and mouse game with the FBI, their display of magic tricks, fluid stunt scenes and Mark Ruffalo's banter with co-cop Melanie Laurent keep you engaged. The film works as a crime-thriller. However, it's unconvincing when it comes to dissecting the magic. As the film progresses, the antics of the law-defying 'famous four' start defying logic as well. The scattered plot runs out of steam eventually. The film goes into a different tangent altogether in order to be unpredictable, leaving you more perplexed than pleased. The filmmaker sends out a similar message to the audience - don't dig into every aspect of the 'tricks' and you will be entertained.

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Ratings:2/5  Review By:  Raja Sen Site:Rediff

Things begin with an admittedly impressive ‘first act’ with a genuinely preposterous explanation behind it, but there’s enough pace to be taken in by it all, to luxuriate in the buildup. But then there’s a car chase. A big and elaborate generic action-movie chase which disrupts the narrative entirely, and it never quite gets back on track. This is when you realise that despite the actors making things look clever and cheeky, they’re all just making the most of one-note characters being hustled through a rather juvenile plot. Believe me, I get the idea of forgettable-popcorn-fun, but this film’s gradual and abrupt descent into predictable cliche is most saddening. It could have been so good. It could have been something that justified that cast. It could have been, well, magic.

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Ratings:2/5  Review By:  Neha Pinto Site:Bookmyshow

The first half of the film is mysterious and mysterious in a bad way; because you can’t seem to understand the purpose of action. The second half does get interesting, but that is only because the audience is too intrigued to know what exactly is happening in the film. At certain points the film does grip you, because who doesn’t love a good magic trick? At certain levels the film seems too good to be true. The end of the film makes it even worse. There’s always something that you take back after watching a film, after watching Now You See Me all the audience can take back is disappointment. The film takes cue from the famous saying, "If you can’t convince them, confuse them." Verdict: As Morgan Freeman promises in the trailer, it’s true, "The more you think you see, the easier it’ll be to fool you."

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After Earth Movie Review

Ratings:1.5/5  Review By:  Rajeev Masand Site:CNN IBN (IBNLive)

Clearly intended as a vanity project to showcase his 14-year-old son Jaden's action-hero skills, 'After Earth', conceived and produced by Will Smith, is part-sci-fi, part cautionary tale, yet always a snooze-fest. It doesn't help that director M Night Shyamalan, far out of his comfort zone of twisty thrillers, sucks the film dry of any potential for humor, and delivers what is probably Will Smith's only film in which he never cracks a smile.Although it's only 100 minutes long, 'After Earth' feels unending and uninspired, and while it's not as godawful as Shyamalan's 'The Last Airbender', it's a far, far cry from his earlier, original films. I'm going with one-and-a-half out of five for 'After Earth'. Prepare to be bored out of your mind.

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Ratings:2.5/5  Review By:  Gavin Rasquinha Site:Times of India

Will Smith is known to do films with a bang - grand movies of sweeping scale where he is the focal point of attention. Not so in this one. Here, he takes the back seat and hands Jaden the baton. The film's plot bears an uncanny resemblance to a video-game where the player has to go the distance from point 'A' to 'B' (100 km, in this case) in 'X' amount of time. There are menacing moments and the editing is taut but this stays in cliche territory; it's nothing you haven't seen before. The film suffers from a lack of ambition. After Earth aims for interstellar overdrive but barely manages to take off.

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Ratings:1/5  Review By:  Anupama Chopra Site:Star World ( Hindustan Times)'

In my book, the worst crime a director can commit is boredom. I say: annoy me, gross me out, frighten me – evoke some reaction. But boring the audience is unforgiveable and that’s exactly what M. Night Shyamalan does in After Earth, a comatose science fiction drama about a father and son. But you can’t make a myth out of a morose cartoon. I’m going with one star for After Earth. The filmmaker who gave us The Sixth Sense is now a distant memory. I hope someday, he resurfaces again.

Ratings:3/5  Review By:  Malvika Rao Site:Bookmyshow

‘After Earth’ is no classic, it is not even at par with some of great stuff its predecessors have achieved in the same genre. But it’s got a genuine feeling about it, conviction, although lacking. After Earth, however, seems like the kind of film that would have been better off as a book. A book that allows it to explore each character and allows depth that the screenplay did not. I would love to know the past and future of this story, it’s got the idea but it lacks the execution and depth.Verdict: Watch it for what it could have been – a young soldier’s journey to discovery against all odds.

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Ratings:--  Review By:  AP Site:NDTV

The disappointingly generic film, which strands a father and son (Will and Jaden Smith) on Earth a thousand years after a planet-wide evacuation, will leave genre audiences pining for the more Terra-centric conceits of Oblivion, not to mention countless other future-set films that find novelty in making familiar surroundings threatening. After Earth's missteps in conception and execution are more akin to the head-scratching choices that kept The Happening from fulfilling its doomsday-flick potential.

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Yamla Pagla Deewana -2 Movie Review

Ratings:2/5  Review By:  Rajeev Masand Site:CNN IBN (IBNLive)

his intentionally harebrained sequel sees the Deols reprise their characters from the 2011 hit, but the laughs are fewer this time around because the novelty's worn off and a strong sense of déjà vu hangs over the film. Directed by Sangeeth Sivan, 'Yamla Pagla Deewana 2' isn't all bad, but at 2 hours and 35 minutes it's overlong and repetitive, and doesn't offer anything particularly original or inventive in terms of comedy. I'm going with two out of five. It's a pity the jokes run out faster than your popcorn does.

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Ratings:2/5  Review By:  Taran Adarsh Site:BollywoodHungama

One expects YAMLA PAGLA DEEWANA-2 to be a roller coaster ride from commencement to conclusion. The writer runs his imagination wild and laces episodes that are wacky and ludicrous, but stretches it too much this time. The problem is that the writer tries to cram too much into one film, but the episodes lack the power to grip you. Sure, the writer and director know who the target audience is, but the fun quotient that you expect from the film is missing. On the whole, YAMLA PAGLA DEEWANA-2 rides on the star power of the Deols and of course, its brand. That may attract the spectators initially. But, eventually, it's the content that does the talking and in this case, the lackluster script plays a spoilsport!

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Ratings:1.5/5  Review By:  Anupama Chopra Site:Star World ( Hindustan Times)

I’m not even going to attempt at recounting the plot because there isn’t any. The Deols – Dharmendra, Sunny and Bobby – and director Sangeeth Sivan are attempting here to create an entertainer. Which means, anything goes. Even the collective charm of the Deols can’t make this drivel palatable. I’m going with one and a half stars for Yamla Pagla Deewana 2. It’s exhausting, loud and so cheerfully moronic that it hurts.

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Ratings:1.5/5  Review By:  Karan Anshuman Site:Mumbai Mirror

For the assemblage of talent on this enterprise and their philistine outlook, their contemplation and subsequent visualization of ideas on art (for example they often confused Expressionism with Dadaism) and cinema (self-referential meta dialogue abound, e.g. Bobby telling his father, "Dharam tu kamina hai.") is rather odious, but of course one must interpret this as a reflection of a similar malaise in society and I reckon that is the implication of the film which in itself is a reflection of the abhorrence of form and intellect.

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Ratings:2.5/5  Review By:  Srijana Mitra Das Site:Times Of India

Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 (YPD 2) totters between GJs (good jokes) and PJs (poor jokes). The GJs are sometimes very good But the GJs get flattened by the PJs. On the upside, a very attractive Sunny stays this movie's brave heart - but even his dhai kilo ka haath can't fully lift YPD 2. Pity, considering how cool its 3-D(eol) could be.

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Ratings:1.5/5  Review By:  Sukanya Verma Site:Rediff

Calling Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 a joke would amount to a compliment.   And I am in no mood to extend such courtesy.  The purported comedy with a little less than half a dozen Deols on board -- Dharmendra , sons Sunny and Bobby, daughter-in-law Lynda (it’s her story) and grandson Karan (as assistant director) is a 155-minute long giant bore.  But the sequel, directed by Sangeeth Sivan, is unimaginably insipid and tedious.  There are, I counted, three witty (read mildly funny) lines in all of YPD2. And there’s a good chance, you’ve heard all three (featuring Dharmendra, of course) in the promo.

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Ratings:1.5/5  Review By:  Saibal Chaterjee Site:NDTV

Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 is much worse than brain-numbing. The screenplay jumbles up a few songs, some action scenes and a string of vapid comic gags and then dumps it all into a messy mix that makes about as much sense as Garam Dharam’s pow-wows with the mute ape.You’ve got to be yamla, pagla or deewana, preferably all three, to grasp what is going on. Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 runs for 155 minutes and its attempts to pass off lunacy as a humour simply do not have the force to hold such a long film together.

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Ratings:----  Review By:  Komal Nahta Site:ETC

The film is designed as a comedy but the tragedy is that it hardly has any comic scenes which can make the audience laugh. Sangeeth Sivan’s direction is outright silly.On the whole, Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 is a dull comedy show and will, therefore, meet with a tragic outcome at the ticket windows. The producers have made a neat profit after selling off the worldwide theatrical rights, satellite rightsand other rights and also thanks to the subsidy they will receive from the UK government, but the worldwide distributors will not be lucky enough to cover their costs.

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Ratings:2/5  Review By:  Shubhra Gupta Site:Indian Express

A plot that should shame a wafer by its thinness. Random characters popping in and out. And the only thing one can say in its favour is that it is not as terrible as the first. And that's because this one is not as shrieky or loud, not all the time. And it has one laugh-out-loud, near-brilliant gag. But it is Dharmendra who is much less of a hoot than he can be: every time I see him deadpan to such little effect, I flash to the kind of effortless comic timing he has shown in the past.

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Ratings:2/5  Review By:  Tushar Joshi Site:DNA

The Deols made Yamla Pagla Deewana watchable because we bought their tomfoolery and goofiness that seemed enjoyable and natural. But the second part is laced with so many ridiculous moments, dialogues, sketchy characters and unflattering camera angles that you hope the family has a better hold of the franchise the next time around. Neither funny, nor witty, YPD2 looks dated and feels half-hearted in its attempt to cater to the family audience. They definitely deserved so much more!

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Ratings:2/5  Review By:  Koimoi Site:Koimoi

What’s Good: Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 is loaded with excerpts from Dabangg Khan’s demeanor and mannerisms. Plus, there is an interesting Orangutan’s revelry which does tickle you right! What’s Bad: With the main con story diversifying into too many sub plots, this one is an extremely tedious. Watch or Not?: YPD 2 is nothing like its prequel. In keeping with its earlier theme, the film fails to spark off a rollicking camaraderie like its last part. The beating around the bush excitement makes it feel too over stretched! Barely managing to squeeze out a few laughs, YPD 2 in the end is an unimpressive slackened show. Do give this one a miss, it is for the better!

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Ratings:2/5  Review By:  Gayatri Sankar Site:Zee News

Addressing his film as ‘over-the-top comedy’, filmmaker Sangeeth Sivan, prior to the release of the film, had said, “If you are a reviewer or a critic who doesn`t like over-the-top films then don’t review it. You will put your sensibilities into it and it is not meant for you.” Alas! Even mindless comedy should have the potential to tickle one’s funny bone, isn’t it? Had the director been equipped with a much better script, he could have perhaps treated a nonsensical film with élan. But something somewhere has certainly gone terribly awry.‘Yamla Pagla Deewana 2’ has action aplenty but terribly fails to impress. To sum it up, the first franchise ‘Yamla Pagla Deewana’ is a much better watch.

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Ratings:----  Review By:  Meesha Kapoor Site:Emirates24by7

If ‘Yamla Pagla Deewana’ was a fun ride then sitting through the 154 min sequel ‘Yamla Pagla Deewana 2’ was a task that one had to carry with a heavy heart. This Sangeeth Sivan directorial is anything but funny combining too many stories with several unnecessary characters and dialogues which had a deja vu from other popular Bollywood movies and most of them being Salman Khan’s dialogues. The forced humor at times hurts the social-intellectual understanding of the audience in the theatre. However, if you are willing to spend the precious 154 mins of your life for the legendry Dharmandra you won't be disappointed. The Deol’s have failed to impress the audience in the sequel unlike the first

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