Book and Movie Reports by Ed

Movie Report: Despicable Me In Gru's first scenes of this animated movie, he pops a little boy's balloon with a pin, petrifies waiting customers at a coffee shop with his freeze ray so he can cut to the head of the line, and crushes cars with a bludgeon-like vehicle that makes SUVs look wimpy. Gru is an arch-villain, and he's feeling pretty good about himself until he gets topped in the Crime of the Century runnings by a rival. He vows to his hordes of yellow pill-shaped minions to get back on top by stealing – wait for it – the Moon! (Cue maniacal laughter.) Meanwhile, as they say, three little orphan girls trudge around town taking orders for boxes of cookies. Level-headed Margo, instigator Edith, and deeply cute Agnes are essentially slave labor for Miss Hattie, the inert and rotund dictator of the orphanage. Their paths cross when Gru sees a way to use these little girls to infiltrate his rival's lair and steal a shrink ray that would be handy for his planned thef