[ SECRET POST #2397 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2397 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.
[About Death]


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02.
[John Rhys-Davies]


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03.
[Attack on Titan]


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04.
[Glee/Corey Monteith]


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05. [SPOILERS for Despicable Me 2]



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06. [SPOILERS for Ace Attorney]



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07. [WARNING for underage]



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08. [WARNING for gore, violence]

[Atonement, Wanted, Last King of Scotland, X-Men First Class]


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09. [WARNING for rape]



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10. [WARNING for death]


















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Oops, I haven't seen either movie, but one of my friends loved the first one and keeps talking about wanting to go see this... but she was raised by a single father and she's kind of sensitive/defensive about it. Now I wonder if I should tell her the ending might bother her without spoiling it.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think they made it seem like being a single parent was shameful and wrong or anything? I mean, she might get upset anyway, but the neighbor who kept trying to hook up with Gru was portrayed as an idiot, not like the voice of reason and the other person was a very young child.

[thezmage]

While there was some focus on Gru's dating life, it was never portrayed as being about getting the kids a mother.

The movie opens on a birthday party for the youngest child, Agnes. It's a medieval theme, and Gru gets a call saying that the fairy princess he hired isn't showing up. This would be the perfect place to show the kids needing a mother, as fairy princess is a typically feminine occupation, but instead Gru puts on the costume and fills in. Afterwards, Agnes tells him that she knows he's in the costume, and she loves him for it.

Later that night, Agnes is practicing her Mother's Day pageant presentation for Gru, and she's flat and wooden because she doesn't know what having a mother is like. He tells her to imagine having a mother.

When Agnes meets Lucy, we get a very obvious cue that she wants her as a mother. The other kids don't react at all.

And that's the last time the "m" word is uttered in the whole film until the very end. There's no talk from anyone about the girls needing a mother, there's no indication that Gru is at all deficient as a parent for not having a wife. Gru's own mother, who was a decently important character in the first movie, only appears as a button on Gru's caller ID. If anything, the first movie says more about the importance of mothers than this one.

That being said, I do feel like the romance was rushed largely because they seem to have sacrificed the emotional core that the first one had in favor of more wacky minion scenes (which were hilarious, mind you).

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

I don't normally care for the minion scenes all that much, but the part where they started singing "I swear" by All 4 One was great