I get that I am not exactly the target audience for this movie, but the trailer struck me as cloyingly cute.  So cute in fact that if I were a diabetic I would keep my insulin at the ready, just in case.  Gru, the villainous, though he was more misunderstood than evil, main character of 2010’s eponymously titled film now definitely appears to be on the side of the angels.

This time around he seems to have been enlisted–though shanghaied would probably be a more accurate–by the Anti-Villain League to aid in their efforts to rid the world of villains.

Despite the change in allegiance and storyline, Gru appears just as inept as he was in the earlier film, though what Universal hopes most is that “Despicable Me 2” is like the first film in terms of its box office potential, which pulled in almost $550 million, on an investment of $69 million (which doesn’t include marketing costs, though I am reasonably sure it earned a huge profit).

What I like is that despite knowing that Gru is voiced by Steve Carell, (who can use a hit after the abysmal performance of “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone”) the character sounded different enough that I didn’t flashback to Michael Scott at any point during the trailer.

Which is a very good thing.