Did You Know … “Despicable Me 2″ Trivia
The Minions are back! In Despicable Me 2, Gru (voice of Steve Carell), having retired from crime to raise his daughters, is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a new foe, one that turns the lovable little Minions into wild creatures. Here are some fun facts about the sequel:
• In the first movie, Kevin the Minion has one eye, in the sequel another Minion named Kevin has two eyes and is taller.
• Kristen Wiig is also back for Despicable Me 2, but she voices a different character than the one in the first movie. (In Despicable Me, she voiced the character of Miss Hattie, headmistress at the orphanage).
• In Gru’s house, the petals of a flower in a painting look like the biohazard symbol.
• When Gru first visits his Minions in the underground workshop, several Minions can be seen taking a break and eating lunch on top of a cross beam. This is in homage to the famous “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper” photograph from 1932.
• A photo of Dr. Nefario on a beach can be seen at his desk in the lab. The same photo was Gru’s background for Dr. Nefarious on his cell phone in the first film.
• When Gru is looking around the mall he sees a man blow up a balloon only for it to pop and make the kid getting the balloon cry. The kid crying is the same kid that Gru made cry with a popping balloon in the beginning of the first film.
• In the scene in which Edith is playing ping-pong with a Minion, she is using a pair of nunchaku as opposed to a ping-pong paddle. This is a reference to a famous Chinese Nokia commercial in which a Bruce Lee impersonator in a mock “lost home video” also plays a game of ping-pong using only a pair of nunchaku.
• El Macho drinks from a liquor bottle during a flashback scene. The label on the bottle says “La Venganza del Escorpión,” which is Spanish for “The Revenge of the Scorpion.” Look for a poster, also in Spanish, that reads: “If you order a drink you must pay for it first.”
• The start of the film features yellow-jacketed humans speaking a foreign language. This is a reference to the original design for Despicable Me’s Minions — the iconic shortened shape came about as a result of a low budget for the first film.
Despicable Me 2 is available starting Dec. 13 on Video On Demand. Check your cable system for availability.
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