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Despicable Me

Despicable Me

Throughout the 3-D computer-animated comedy Despicable Me, the films classically villainous villain, a hunched, bald, heavily accented heavy named Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), is surrounded by a nattering army of minions, which look like yellow pills with goggles and overalls, ... ...

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