Films like Despicable Me 2.
Despicable Me 2 (2013) reads as Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are Despicable Me 2’s neighbours — where are yours?
Pick the mood of the night and we pull a film that fits it, on the same twelve axes. Then everyone on the couch gets something to watch for.
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