There’s nothing deplorable about “Despicable Me.” And it will be most delightful to children. Being released in 3-D for box office reasons rather than aesthetic necessity, the silly/sweet cartoon satire follows a cranky henchman who finds his heart of gold when he starts to nurture three little girls.
The setup is a little like “Full House” … that is, if John Stamos, aka Uncle Jesse, was a bald megalomaniac with a dastardly plot to blackmail the world by miniaturizing and then stealing the moon. Here, the father figure-to-be is named Gru (voiced by Steve Carell). He’s a cross between Uncle Fester from the Addams Family and a James Bond villain with a vaguely Eastern European accent and mommy issues (as voiced, unrecognizably, by Julie Andrews).
