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!

It was the heartwarming children's mad science family comedy I didn't realize I was waiting for.

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 and involves Gru trying to go straight, while his little girls cackle and become ever more villainous.

That sounds delightful; thank you. I have no plans to see the sequel, since I am also not a fan of the overprotective father shtick or mainstream-requisite romances, so will cheerfully accept alternate versions of the characters' future while considering the first movie a satisfactory self-contained canon.

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...

It is lovely. Maybe someday you can be a supervillain and afford it yourself.