Shout Out / Despicable Me 2

• To Phineas and Ferb, in a trailer where Gru tells the girls about his new job after Agnes asks if he's really gonna save the world. Here's what he replies with:
  Gru: Yes, yes I am!
• The scene where Lucy drives her car off the end of the pier and into the ocean, where it transforms into a submarine, is highly reminiscent of the famous scene from The Spy Who Loved Me where James Bond drives his Lotus Esprit into the water and it promptly transforms to a submarine.
• Gru compares the AVL's super-spy setup to Mission: Impossible.
  • Several Minions are dressed as the Village People.
• The evil Minion that calls out the one disguised with purple paint does so in the exact same pose of Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
• A swarm of evil Minions climbing a wall - and climbing over each other in the process - sure looks a lot like a scene from a zombie movie that came out a couple of weeks prior...
  • Commentary confirms they were inspired by the trailer.
• When Eduardo's chicken attacks Gru, it manages to get under his shirt and then bursts out through the chest.
• The main villain of the film is a Mexican supervillain who is the manliest man ever and takes a Psycho Serum to gain superpowers. Quite a resemblance to Bane of Batman fame.
• The jam-firing guns are very reminiscent of the Splurge Guns in Bugsy Malone.
• The wig store owner is a shout out to two famous supervillains: Fu Manchu (oriental clothes and moustache), and Blofeld (when Gru enters his shop he is petting a white wig that looks like a Persian cat).
• The lair of the Big Bad can only be entered by dancing on the keypad.
• The Big Damn Gunship moment in the climax is awfully reminiscent of the same scene from Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, camera angles and everything. The two gunships even look the same, with a large bay that opens on both sides of the lower half of the ship, along with manned multi-directional guns just outside the doors.
• The scene where Gru's unconscious date Shannon is tied to the roof of Lucy's car, in a scene that is vaguely similar to National Lampoon's Vacation.
• The brief scene of a row of Minions in Gru's lab sitting on a girder eating lunch is a direct spoof of the photo "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper."
• Two of Gru's photos - the stereotypical nerdy photo and hip-hop photo - that the girls find are based off real famous photographs (the latter being a pastiche of the Beastie Boys "greatest hits" album cover).
• A guy with a foreign accent falls for a wacky redhead named Lucy.
• The short scene of Edith playing ping pong with nun-chucks is a reference to this Nokia commercial.
• Gru shooting out of the lawn (via secret door) on his motorbike is reminiscent of the cover of Bat Out of Hell