YMMV / Despicable Me 2

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: Lucy uses a lipstick taser on Gru, a moment showcased in the trailer. Stun guns disguised as lipstick actually exist.
• Ass Pull: Dr. Nefario and the Super-Serum Antidote. Could be justified, as he has been working with El Macho, and had plenty of time to examine the serum and know how to counteract it. He may even have created it in advance, feeling enough loyalty to his former boss to take steps in case El Macho attacked him instead of just accepting a "no thanks" answer, which he did.
• Award Snub: The film dominated the 2014 Kids' Choice Awards winning "Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie" for Miranda Cosgrove and "Favorite Mobile App," but getting shut out of "Favorite Animated Movie" by Frozen (2013). Yes, Frozen was a lot bigger than DM2 was, but still, it put a blemish on a despicable night of awards.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The Minion who falls in love with Lucy at first sight, having a whole fantasy montage with her. This is never acknowledged in any way afterwards.
• Awesome Music: Pharrell Williams' "Happy".
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Shannon, the annoying woman Gru gets set up on a date with. This is partly due to her being voiced by Kristen Schaal, a voice actor whose popularity has exploded recently due to her brilliantly voicing certain other eccentric female characters.
• Even Better Sequel: People who preferred the sequel to the first movie felt that the sequel had much better jokes, a more interesting story and, at the very least, put the Minions to better use.
• Fan Nickname: "Village Minions" for the Minions mimicking the Village People in the Dance Party Ending. It's even in Youtube's auto-complete now!
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Even though Antonio dumped Margo for another girl, leading to Margo's current "hatred" for boys, many fans have a different idea. Some fanfictions and music videos still pair up Antonio and Margo.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Lucy smiling while watching Gru and his daughters interact and then referring to him as a "fun dad" takes a sadder note when Word of God revealed later on that Lucy's parents were killed when she was very young.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: This was not the only film released in 2013 where Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig's character fall in love and get married.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In the first film, Gru tries to keep his supervillain identity a secret by claiming he was a spy. Cut to this movie, and he is hired as a spy for the Anti-Villain league.
  • There's the small gag when the girls try to set Gru up for online dating, and he claims he looks like a bit like Bruce Willis. What makes this scene hilarious is that Gru is voiced by Steve Carell, and both of the actors worked together on another movie in which Carell's character looked up to Willis' character.
  • The girls were not fond of their foster mother in the first film, but they open up immediately to Lucy. Hilariously, both women are voiced by the same person. The fact that Gru flirts (unsuccessfully) with Miss Hattie in the first film is also quite funny as he marries Lucy in this one.
  • The Russian dub has an actress named Irina Kireeva voice a character named Lucy. This wouldn't be the first time she would voice a Love Interest Action Girl with the same name...
  • The climax has the heroes armed with gunge-shooting firearms and are against a Zerg Rush of mutated creatures capable of mass-destruction against civilisation, which aptly describes the "Salmon Run" mode introduced in Splatoon 2. Gru even dual-wields two jelly guns just like the Dualies introduced in that game.
  • While talking to Margo, Antonio admits that he wants to play video games for a living, which, when this movie came out, was meant to sound like a childish fantasy. However, with the rise of things like E-Sports or streaming, Antonio's dream isn't so farfetched anymore.
• I Knew It!: Many fans correctly guessed that Gru and Lucy would become a couple.
• Magnificent Bastard: Eduardo "El Macho" Perez is a legendary supervillain famous for being ruthless, dangerous and, as the name implies, very macho. Faking his death to get to evade his enemies, he returns twenty years laters where he plans to create an army to help him conquer the world: creating his army by stealing a secret laboratory from the Arctic Circle; recruiting Dr. Nefario and having him create the mind-controlling mutagen PX-41; and kidnapping the Minions to experiment on, using the PX-41 to bring them under his control. El Macho also offers the retired super villain Felonious Gru an opportunity to rule by his side, but when Gru refuses to, El Macho kidnaps Gru's Love Interest, Lucy Wilde, and holds her hostage to keep Gru from interfering before drinking the PX-11 to gain monstrous strength in his attempt to kill Gru.
• Memetic Mutation: See this film's section on the franchise's meme page.
• Nightmare Retardant: The Evil Minions. They look like deformed Build-A-Bears and sound like they're vomiting. Not exactly scary is it? But don't forget - they may look goofy, but they can shrug off bullets and devour police cars. Keep jelly with you at all times, just in case.
• Portmanteau Couple Name:
  • Grucy (Gru and Lucy).
  • Martonio (Margo and Antonio).
• Strangled by the Red String: Gru and Lucy don't show much attraction or chemistry for the first half of the film, and their feelings for each other seem to come out of nowhere for the sake of them being in love. With that said, their chemistry when actually in love is considered actually pretty decent.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • Most of the villains from Despicable Me go unpunished - in fact, don't even appear. Mr. Perkins still presumably runs the Bank of Evil, Miss Hattie presumably still runs the orphanage and neither of them figure in the plot. The sequel instead focuses on a Love Interest for Gru.
  • It looks like Little Miss Badass Edith will finally get a moment in the spotlight to fight the Monster!Minion in her ninja costume...then Dr. Nefario shows up in the nick of time and injects it with anti-serum.
  • The Margo/Antonio subplot is immediately dropped after Gru goes Papa Wolf on Antonio. Antonio completely disappears from the plot after that.
  • There were a good amount of fans hoping the sequel would have the girls now working in the family business of villainy, only for it to show Gru is no longer a super villain.

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