Surrounded by happy homes with white picket fences and flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbours, hidden below is a vast secret hideout. Helped in his evil plans by an army of yellow minions, we discover Gru, planning the biggest theft in the history of the world. But when he’s forced to enlist the help of three orphan girls Gru finds his role as arch baddie seriously compromised by his increasing acts of random kindness. Not up there with the Toy Stories or Shreks of the animated world, but good fun none the less.