Top 4 most popular animated films by acclaimed director Pierre Coffin

Can animated films be as box office and successful as feature films? Pierre Coffin has proven to the world that they can. Just four of the director's works have brought in almost four billion dollars in revenue, and that's an impressive figure.

2010 - "Ugly Me." - directing and working as a dubbing actor

Coffen also gave the "yellow heroes" their own voice in this cartoon. What's the story about? Demonstrably rude, bald and big-nosed Gru tries to prove to the whole world that he is not just a villain, and a whole super-villain. And he has a whole army of yellow-coloured helpers who are dressed in cute overalls. They call these little helpers minions. Gru decides to go to the bank for credit enhancementAnd he plans to spend the money on villainy, also competing in parallel with another villain named Vector.

What's Gru's ambitious plan? He intends to steal the moon. To accomplish this, he needs a device capable of reducing matter particles, which has already been stolen by a rival. In order to accomplish device theftGryu decides to involve three orphaned girls in his plan: for this purpose, the villain even adopts them. But only as a result, he will love the girls as his own.

Why is Gru going to the bank for money? It turns out that even villains have to take out loans, but in their own, villainous banks. Plus, Gru turns out to be a little less villainous, and the orphans are not at all not so defenceless. Why did he become a villain in the first place? It was all his mum's fault, who said his son had no abilities and he couldn't be an astronaut.

Is it worth watching this work of the director? At least because of the curious and unconventional characters. Wonderful graphics and non-standard solutions, subtle humour overwhelm the picture from beginning to end. And also a pleasant turn of events, allowing to prove that inside every villain there's a little bit of kindnessand she can be found and awakened.

2013 - "Ugly Me 2" - director and voice of the Minions

Naturally, after the success, public attention and financial profitability of the project, the director was simply obliged to continue it. And this is the rare case when the continuation of the story comes out quite decent quality. The protagonist can't exactly be called a classic villain and a bad example for the children. Gru becomes a father of three orphans and tries to be a good family man.

The story is more about a former bad guy who for the sake of his family tries to change for the better, although it is not always easy. With a modest budget of seventy-six million dollars, the work brought its creators billion-dollar revenues... And this is already an indicator. Apparently, the story of how the former villain decided to become a model father and even open his own small business, bought many people. And this business is legal, honest.

But at the same time one of the evil scientists is testing in the Arctic his weapon that can make anyone evil and aggressive. Against this background, a certain organisation that catches criminals appears. Actually, it is this secret police society that attracts Gru as a helper, capable of infiltrating the villains' lab.. Of course, in the end, the complex operation ends successfully, but the process is never smooth, and there are enough mishaps to capture the interest of the viewer. The minions, which make anyone smile, add a particularly savoury touch to the whole story.

2015 - "Minions" - director and voice of the minions

Why is it worth watching this work? At least because of the wonderful humour, the amazing quality of the performance, the exciting plot. It's also a great animated film for family viewingin which everyone will find something pleasant and appealing. Now the most important characters are the minions themselves.

A trio of main characters stands out: Bob, Stuart and Kevin. Cute and funny kids see themselves in the role of assistants of the greatest villains, only in no way can not find themselves a leader. Even the very process of interaction of toy characters looks quite comical. Minions find it difficult to find the ugliest person on the planet who would be their leader.

2017 - "Ugly Me 3" - director and voice of the minions, museum directors

The release of the sequel to this story was eagerly awaited by fans from all over the world. Surprisingly, the third part of the Gru story turned out to be no less exciting and promising than the previous ones. Only it seems that there can be no new plot twists and turns, and yesterday's evil genius became the an upstanding father of a familyHe is a family man and even has a sweetheart. In addition, now he is not a villain, but almost a special agent with his own business.

Everything changes when Gru learns the horrifying truth: he has a twin brother. All the components of the success of the film remained: Gru, who became a positive hero, his children, beautiful wife, and even cute minions. The artists retained the characteristic graphics and style, endowed characters still with the same attractive features. Now the protagonist is to learn that the attraction to the dark side of the force in him literally laid at the genetic level.

He finds out that his father, as well as all relatives on the male line, were the greatest thieves and villains. Obviously, his own brother also turns out to be far from a gift. Once again, Gru needs to be the saviour of the world and stop the evil. Of course, it won't be easy to cope with it, and the family feelings are also making themselves felt.
What are the advantages? The characters don't just stay in character, they develop. In some places the plot twists turn out to be predictable.

The duet of twins, very different but at the same time so similar to each other, also looks great. They look interesting directorial references to the eighties era. Even adults who watch this picture together with their children will be pleased to notice trends, fashion trends and even music of their favourite era. The advantages of the cartoon: excellent graphics, quality performance, plenty of jokes and a fine line of family psychology.