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Saw this at Facebook and I'm hoping that this will be reliable information. Outline:In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by a small army of minions, we discover Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon (Yes, the moon!) in Universal’s new 3-D CGI feature, Despicable Me.
Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential Dad.
The world’s greatest villain has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes. www.despicable.me minespatch 1:52, 16 October 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.103.164.103 ( talk)
When I saw Where The Wild Things Are, there was not a trailer for "Despicable Me." Well, at least not a second trailer... Was it with some screenings and not with others? -- Joshua H-Star-R ( talk) 11:39, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
I saw the first one when I was watching Land of The Lost.-- Daisy13103 ( talk) 21:09, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
There's a new trailer out, with new plot information. Ruby 1x2 ( talk) 03:43, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
The lead characters Gru and Vector bear a striking resemblance to Microsoft supremos Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates. Is this deliberate? Mrstonky ( talk) 19:16, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
And all the tech Vector uses bear a strong resemblance to Apple's products. Also, Mr. Perkins looks exactly like Pointy-haired_Boss from Dilbert. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.24.42.114 ( talk) 21:28, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
They appear to have taken their character design from Dr Who Tom Baker years: http://sven.signull.com/~mikes/DrWho-DisMe.png -- Mike Spenard ( talk) 04:56, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
I understand how (you) User:Active Banana are trying to follow the rules but too much has been removed from the Box Office, in trying to avoid editors POV and and reduce hyperbole there is insufficient perspective and context of any kind.
The figures need some adjectives to explain to normal readers that a 42% drop is "respectable" or "only". Without some description readers not already familiar with how much a film would normally drop cannot know if that is a significant drop or about the normal level of a drop, when in fact it is a strong or respectable performance to only drop that much when other films drop by far more.
This change is particularly confusing since if you look at the edit with the summary only is POV commentary only a few edits earlier User:Active Banana changed the wording from respectable to 'only'.
The referenced article says (and as I said in my edit summary) Despicable Me Dominates. I thought success was a fair paraphrase of that. If you think a different wording is more appropriate please do find something to express that or if necessary use a direct quote, but I try to paraphrase and simplify rather than using direct quotes.
The whole reason the Box Office Mojo news articles are referenced and not just the figures on the main box office mojo page for Despicable Me is so that editors can provide more context without it being their own WP:OR or WP:POV because it is acceptable to include the point-of-view presented by the article. -- Horkana ( talk) 23:10, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
After the girls are taken back to the orphanage, Gru awakes in his bed and after flipping back the blanket, he gets frightened by the sight of the toy head (for hairdressing). Is this a reference to the film "The Godfather" where a film producer founds the severed head of his horse in his bed? -- Animiertes Fleisch ( talk) 15:49, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Minions are yellow skinned, alluding North Asians (China, japan, Koreas, Mongols, Manchus etc), while the main characters are obviously Caucasian. The whole characterisation is a subjugating NLP levelled at the yellow skins, evenm as all this talk about China being a 'factory floor' is just as bad. If the minions had been multicoloured, and the main villians less Caucasian, China would have allowed this to be aired. Thats the problem with all these English movies and animation movies, too much propaganda. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.106.148.51 ( talk) 11:35, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
I was reading the article and was surprised to learn that there were other soundtrack albums ... especially since no other website knows anything about them. The data is probably worth keeping, but I reworked the section's information to try to make it clear they don't exist. - Salamurai ( talk) 05:06, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
I think that wikipedia is not the place for a blow by blow, scene by scene, description of the plot of films.
Four or Five paragraphs seems right to me.
I want to take this article and edit out about two-thirds of the "plot" section.
Eckeck77 ( talk) 07:35, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Please replace "the quicker the effect's of the shrink ray wear off" with "the quicker the effects of the shrink ray wear off" (remove apostrophe from effects)
121.213.210.64 ( talk) 04:41, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
They weren't selling Girl Scout Cookies - just cookies. Francis Hannaway ( talk) 17:48, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
The second paragraph of the Critical reception subsection starts:
This is indeed what the source says, but he presumably meant "... are expert at springing surprises ...". Does the second "are" deserve a [sic]? -- ToE 23:30, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
Other movies are given a couple of quotes by movie critics. It just seems to drag on and on here. 70.82.109.203 ( talk) 19:51, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
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Is it Margo or Margaux? I've seen conflicting versions on different websites and want to make sure that it is correct here. YborCityJohn ( talk)
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Despicable Me (franchise) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — RMCD bot 16:34, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: not moved. Closing early per WP:SNOW. ( closed by non-admin page mover) Calidum 14:26, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
Despicable Me (film) →
Despicable Me (2010 film) – The word "film" doesn't logically dis-ambiguate it from its sequels. I would like to propose a move to
Despicable Me 1, but I'm sure that would get too many oppose votes because some Wikipedians would label it as original research.
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This movie is what birthed the franchise. The Secret Life of Pets article isn't named The Secret Life of Pets (film) and the franchise article isn't named The Secret Life of Pets. The same should apply here if that makes sense. 1ArcticDude ( talk) 23:51, 11 July 2024 (UTC)