This weekend, Steve Carrell did the near-impossible. He did the unthinkable. He did the heroic. He should be awarded the Congressional medal of honor.
He unseated Twilight from the box office. I had the distinct pleasure of seeing Twilight : Eclipse with my mother, and despite being the best Twilight movie yet, it’s basically like calling a genocide the least terrible genocide. Unless you’re killing gingerbread men, they’re all terrible. And if you’re killing gingerbread men, they’re probably terrible and delicious. Despicable Me won the weekend box-office with a 60 million dollar take, despite not being based off of any previous popular property, not being a sequel or a remake, and not being engineered for decades by James Cameron. Which is pretty impressive in the contemporary world of filmmaking, where an original idea is as rare as a starlet that doesn’t like showing you the tags on her panties.
Steve Carrell plays Gru, a bumbling supervillain who plans on stealing the moon until three adorable orphan girls enter his life and change it for the better.
Who originally wanted the part? Roman Polanski, but when they tried explaining what 3D was, he got panicked that he wouldn’t be able to see the girls up close. He cried his crocodile tears, and then went off to arrange a modeling shoot.
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