FREE DESPICABLE ME 2: UNDERCOVER SUPER SPIES PDF Arthur Fong,Christophe Lautrette,Kirsten Mayer | 24 pages | 30 May 2013 | LB Kids | 9780316234467 | English | New York, United States Verify your identity It is the second installment in the Despicable Me film series and the sequel to Despicable Me Nefario, Margo, Agnes, and Edith, respectively. Despicable Me 2 premiered on June 5, in Australia and had a wide theatrical release in the United States on July 3, It is also the most profitable film in the year history of Universal Pictures. A sequel, Despicable Me 3 Despicable Me 2: Undercover Super Spies, was released on June 30, A mysterious ship using a giant magnet steals a highly potent mutagen known as PX from a secret laboratory in the Arctic Circle. At the AVL headquarters Silas tells him he was taken here to track down the culprit of the person who stole the lab and recover the mutagen. However, Gru refuses, claiming that he is now a legitimate father and jelly businessman. Longing to resume his criminal life, Dr. Nefario, Gru's friend and assistant, leaves Gru for new employment. This convinces a reluctant Gru to investigate the theft and work with Lucy. The pair begin their search in Despicable Me 2: Undercover Super Spies Paradise Shopping Mall, disguised as bakery employees. Gru and Lucy break into Eduardo's restaurant at night but find no proof. Meanwhile, Agnes, who dreams of having a Despicable Me 2: Undercover Super Spies one day, believes that Gru will fall in love with Lucy. Gru denies it, saying his relationship with Lucy is only professional. Despite holding Eduardo as his prime suspect, Gru agrees to pursue others, including wig merchant Floyd Eagle-san, where he discovers traces of PX After witnessing Eduardo's two-timing son, Antonio, woo Margo and invite everyone to his Cinco de Mayo party, Gru renews his focus on Eduardo. His neighbor, Jillian, sets him up on a dinner date with her opinionated friend Shannon. The date goes awry, but Lucy arrives and rescues Gru from being humiliated by shooting Shannon with a tranquilizer gun. While they take Shannon home, Gru and Lucy spend personal time together, and Gru falls in love with her. The next day, the AVL arrest Eagle-san after finding an almost-empty jar of the mutagen in his shop, and the investigation is closed by Ramsbottom. Lucy is reassigned to Australia and gives Gru her lipstick taser as a gift before leaving. A heartbroken Gru, having lacked the courage Despicable Me 2: Undercover Super Spies ask Lucy out on a date, instead takes the girls to the Cinco de Mayo party. There, he follows Eduardo and discovers a secret musical steps-activated elevator, where he finally discovers that Eduardo is indeed El Macho as he suspected. On her flight, Lucy, realizing that she has also fallen in love with Gru, jumps out of the plane and uses a hang-glider to reach the party. Gru discovers that El Macho, who has hired Nefario as a partner, has been abducting Gru's minions and using the stolen PX serum to make them rabid and indestructible. El Macho plans to launch rockets full of the mutated Minions into major cities in order to dominate the world. He offers Gru the chance to team up with him, but Gru walks away and El Macho sends one of his minions after him. Gru takes the girls home and finds a heartbroken Margo as Antonio has chosen another girl to dance with other than her; Gru freezes him on the way out. Nefario rejoins Gru and tells him that Lucy has been captured, Gru goes back to his fortress with two of his own minions. Meanwhile, back at Gru's house, the minion that El Macho released finds his home and attacks the girls, but Nefario comes to their rescue as he had created an antidote to the serum and pours it in their jelly reserves. Gru arrives at El Macho's fortress with two disguised minions covered with purple paint pretending to be captured, but their cover is blown and the purple minions attack and corner them. Luckily, Nefario, the girls, and the rest of Gru's minions arrive with the antidote on Gru's aircraft and return all the Minions to their normal state. El Macho then applies the mutagen on himself and turns into a monster, but Gru and Nefario defeat him using Lucy's lipstick taser and a fart gun respectively. Gru finds Lucy strapped to a TNT-loaded shark rocket Despicable Me 2: Undercover Super Spies starts to untie her, but Pollito launches the rocket, sending it flying towards the same volcano where El Macho previously faked his death. Lucy accepts Gru's invitation for a date, and Despicable Me 2: Undercover Super Spies pair dive into the ocean seconds before the rocket enters the volcano and explodes. In OctoberThe Hollywood Reporter reported that Javier Bardem was negotiating to voice a villain, named El Macho, [25] but the negotiations failed. On May 3,just Despicable Me 2: Undercover Super Spies month before the film's premiere, producers announced that Al Pacino had left the film over creative differences about how his character should come to life. If you don't see eye to eye, sometimes it's easier to part company and move on from there. He ended up only using Pacino as an inspiration, and resolved to go with his own interpretation of the character. The animation was developed in Paris, France by Illumination Mac Guff using Autodesk Mayaover to artists worked on the sequel, in contrast of the team of artists the first film required. Some of the biggest challenges for the animation team was creating visual effects such as water and jellywhich led to the crashing and replacement of some of the studio's drives. Steve Carell and Miranda Cosgrove were present at the red Despicable Me 2: Undercover Super Spies premiere. As with the first film, which did not have a theatrical release in China, the film's distributor Universal Pictures had troubles releasing the sequel. A blimp dressed to appear as Despicable Me 2: Undercover Super Spies Minion, named "Despicablimp," toured the United States from March in a six-month tour to promote the film's release. A free mobile action video game inspired by the Despicable Me franchisetitled Despicable Me: Minion RushDespicable Me 2: Undercover Super Spies released on June 13, The original music was composed by Heitor Pereira and Pharrell Williams. All music is composed by Heitor Pereiraexcept where noted. Despicable Me 2 is the 48th-highest-grossing film of all timethe fourth-highest- grossing film of[93] the sixth-highest-grossing animated film, [94] the seventh-highest-grossing 3-D film, [95] and the second highest-grossing Illumination Entertainment film. Its opening-day gross stands as third-highest for an animated feature, [98] and the Despicable Me 2: Undercover Super Spies among films opening on a Wednesday. Despicable Me 2 is the 27th-highest-grossing film of all time, the third-highest-grossing animated film, the fourth-highest-grossing Universal film, [] and the third-highest-grossing film of Despicable Me 2 received generally positive reviews from critics. The website's consensus reads, " Despicable Me 2 offers plenty of eye-popping visual inventiveness and a number of big laughs. Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying "Steve Carell's Slavic inflections as Gru do the trick, as before. Wiig's clever hesitations and comic timing help save the day. It's cheerful. It's lollipop colorful. Best of all, it features lots of minion mischief, which guarantees plenty of laughs. But what it doesn't have is an edge. Coffin and Renaud and returning screenwriters Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio haven't managed to come up with a dastardly plot to rival the shrinking and stealing of the moon from the previous film. Stephen Holden of The New York Times gave the film two and a half stars out of five, saying "It is consistently diverting and so cute you'll want to pet it. Yet it is also weightless and lacks a center. But it's not enough just to trot out legions of minions and cobble together a plot. Audiences deserve more imagination and inventiveness than this wan recycling. Adults will just regret the way that Despicable Me 2 betrays the original film's devotion to bad-guy gaiety. Sara Stewart of the New York Post gave Despicable Me 2: Undercover Super Spies film three out of four stars, saying "Sure, it's not as novel as the first time we were Despicable Me 2: Undercover Super Spies, but directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud stay true to the clever, slapstick vibe. But the filmmakers so clearly love working on these characters, their creative joy is infectious. James Rocchi of MSN Movies gave the film four out of five stars, saying "Heartfelt and hilarious, smart and silly, action-packed but never violent, Despicable Me 2 is that rare sequel that outshines its beginnings. For kids, revisiting these jokes is a howl. Pinkie promise. Pols of Time gave the film a positive review, saying "As a sequel it stands level with the first film, and may have the Despicable Me 2: Undercover Super Spies on it. A fart joke in 3-D may not be three times as wacky, but the high spirits of Despicable Me 2 are irresistible fun. Dowd of The A. Club gave the film a 'C' grade, saying "What's missing—and this was the crucial component of part one—is a little sour to undercut the sweet.