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Tag: Despicable Me

  • Toy Story 3: To Hell and Back

    An alternate version of this can be read at Riverside Examiner. Perhaps because it’s quite a bit more substantial than Despicable Me, Toy Story 3 is harder to play with analytically. It’s obviously attempting something more meaningful than just comical. And while Despicable Me may have fallen into the trap of the cultural-subliminal (intentionally or…

  • Despicable Me: Bankable

    After seeing Toy Story 3 (more to come, dv), Despicable Me seemed not as different as one would have expected. Certainly sillier, both films – along with all children’s animated features these days – concern themselves with big but real themes. They’re from pretty different studios (Disney/Pixar & Universal), but the similarities between the two…