Overview
Despicable Me 2 is a 2013 American animated comedy film directed by Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin, and written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio. Produced by Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment, and distributed by Universal, it is the second installment in the Despicable Me franchise following the 2010 film. The film stars the voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Benjamin Bratt, Russell Brand, Miranda Cosgrove, Steve Coogan, and Ken Jeong. In the film, secret agent Lucy Wilde (Wiig) recruits retired supervillain Gru to investigate the theft of a powerful mutagen by an unknown criminal suspected by the latter to be El Macho (Bratt), a villain who is believed to have died decades prior.