I loved this movie! I love fluffy dads-and-daughters fiction so much! I love mad science, and I love found families, and gosh, but this was just such a fun thing to watch!
(The sequel is devastatingly disappointing (tropes I hate: anything that reeks of fathers owning their daughters and therefore not letting them date, romance plots where there don't need to be romance plot). I have not seen Minions (or any of them? Are there more than one?) and have worked enough with small children that I don't really want to.)
I do not know if you like fanfic, but there is a wonderful piece that serves as an excellent "what happens next" over at Ao3. It is called From Degas to Vegas (http://archiveofourown.org/works/144253) and involves Gru trying to go straight, while his little girls cackle and become ever more villainous.
If you are going to read it (please do, it's short and lovely!), I only ask that when Margo describes the Degas she wants so much, you picture Green Dancers (http://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/1/green-dancers-edgar-degas.jpg). I saw it last summer at the Chicago Art Institute and it may well be the painting that made me understand why people spend thousands and thousands of dollars on Art. Oh it's beautiful, but alas, I don't have a supervillain for a father...
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(The sequel is devastatingly disappointing (tropes I hate: anything that reeks of fathers owning their daughters and therefore not letting them date, romance plots where there don't need to be romance plot). I have not seen Minions (or any of them? Are there more than one?) and have worked enough with small children that I don't really want to.)
I do not know if you like fanfic, but there is a wonderful piece that serves as an excellent "what happens next" over at Ao3. It is called From Degas to Vegas (http://archiveofourown.org/works/144253) and involves Gru trying to go straight, while his little girls cackle and become ever more villainous.
If you are going to read it (please do, it's short and lovely!), I only ask that when Margo describes the Degas she wants so much, you picture Green Dancers (http://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/1/green-dancers-edgar-degas.jpg). I saw it last summer at the Chicago Art Institute and it may well be the painting that made me understand why people spend thousands and thousands of dollars on Art. Oh it's beautiful, but alas, I don't have a supervillain for a father...
~Sor