The time of Evil has come

The time of Evil has come
The time of Evil has come
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For a bored child who jumps, kicks, shoots, yells all day long, and his favorite game is fighting, it can be a great experience if he can identify with his exaggerated evil soulmate, say in a cartoon. Well, at least until then it will be quiet… except for the snickers of course.

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The 3D animated film Gru is also typically the category that is actually made for adults, but by the way, 10-year-olds will also find something entertaining in it. The main character, Gru, is a middle-aged guy, the world's second biggest villain, who of course wants to be the world's biggest villain at all costs, but he doesn't come up with the same actions as his opponent, who also took down, for example, the Pyramid of Giza (Gru is only the Eiffel Tower and boasts of stealing the Statue of Liberty: true, both are scaled-down copies from Las Vegas). His plan will be to steal the moon from the sky, but it's not that easy (and it seems so, isn't it?): since he won't get any more loans from the bank of the bad guys (the visit to the bank is one of the most brilliant scenes, and of course it's a fun farewell to the 2 passed away from Lehman Brothers last year), so he has to adopt three cookie salesman orphans, whom he can use to achieve his diabolical goals. The conflict is not even with the adoption (although in a realistic story this wouldn't be a one-day scene either), but with the fact that these three elves and girls, who are preparing to become ballet dancers, slowly soften his crusty heart.

Of course we've seen it before: Gru is a bit like a mix of Count Olaf and the Grinch (without Jim Carrey's dramatic swagger), Agnes, one of the orphan girls spat out Boo (from Monster Co.), and Gru's house is It was inspired by the Addams Family, Rém Rom and Lemony Snicket spaces, and elsewhere we may feel as if we were among the animated sets of The Incredibles. But somehow this doesn't become disturbing, because the story moves forward briskly and the jokes are fresh, original, intelligent, and in the most unexpected scenes a movie reference slips in (for example, the Godfather II jumps in for culture snob children's companions when Gru finds a Barbie head in the in bed). I didn't expect much entertainment at all, but the fact is that I laughed myself silly in the cinema, which is no wonder, since the creators include the crew members of The Office and 30 Rock series and one of the most talented comedy producers, Judd Apatov's returning, favorite comedians (Russel Brand, Jason Segel) dubbed the original version (here, of course, the film is dubbed in Hungarian).

The reason why I particularly liked the film is that, even if not stated, but through its motives (=if I want to, I will explain it anyway) it also touches on the dilemmas of those fathers who are, say, afraid of having children. Gru loves to be evil, do wild things (at least he thinks he enjoys them) and if he didn't have to, he wouldn't even think of starting a family. When he gets these three little girls, he slowly realizes that being a parent is not a bad thing. And the main point, which the film definitely demonstrates: is that it doesn't matter what kind of structure a family operates in, they are all equally valuable. The members of Gru's own household army, the yellow, capsule-like, good-natured minions, for example, are as much a part of the family as the senile inventor (he's the biggest face in the cast!). The so-called the supremacy and sanctity of the nuclear family model is also questioned in several places in the film: once, for example, three minions go shopping and disguise themselves as a mother-father-child family, which culminates in caricature-like and satirical scenes like a drag show. But no family is perfect here: neither the singles, nor the married ones, nor those who raise their biological children, nor those who adopt them. Not even those who are "good" or those who are "evil". All this is very nice and can easily be realized in a cartoon, but in reality, the situation of people living in non-nuclear families is not so rosy.

Finally, a request: I am asking the relevant employees of the book publishers to watch the film for one thing only: there is a book in it, The Three Sleepy Kittens, which is a finger puppet book. It would be great to have something like this at home! Telling stories with a doll is perhaps an even closer experience for both parents and children (it can also be used for puppet therapy purposes, for example), not to mention how good it is to play with them: it usually keeps even the worst child engaged for a few minutes…

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