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Nothing here to challenge anything from the Pixar golden age, but Despicable Me 2 is a sweet-natured family film.

But Despicable Me 2, the animated sequel to Universal's 2010 blockbuster, beat both movies on Saturday and conjured a £4.8 million gross over a two-day time frame.

What kind of a world is it where an informative, helpful magazine like Survival Gardening can go broke but despicable rags like Rape and Hitler! are full of glossy ads with freakish fashion models?

Man of Steel has topped the UK box office for the second weekend in a row, but Despicable Me 2 looks set to dethrone the superhero caper next week after producing remarkable preview numbers over Saturday and Sunday.

Haim Saban, the chairman of Univision, wrote, in an e-mail, "The fact that Rubio and some Republican Presidential candidates have an anti-Hispanic stand that they don't want to share with our community is understandable but despicable.

The latter is somewhat under the radar for the wider games industry, but Despicable Me: Minion Rush (to give its full title) is something of a mobile monster: 100m downloads in three months on iOS and Android earlier this year.

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And yet it isn't only the homeless who are increasingly considered social outcasts - tolerated but essentially despicable.

"Sad to say, but the despicable acts out of which this case arose were not done to the city so much as by the city," he wrote.

Despicable Me proved a box office hit but sequel Despicable Me 2 came close to hitting the $1 billion mark, making it the third highest-grossing animated film ever, behind Frozen and Toy Story 3. Minions reaches UK cinemas on 26 June 2015, so there are still months to wait until the next crazy adventure.

Christie's praise was therefore deemed not just unacceptable, but morally despicable.

One cannot read Trump's mind, it is true, but his despicable race-baiting that has been on loud and ugly display for the many years he has been in the public eye speaks for itself.

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