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Working without apology from the Pixar game book, Universal's first 3D-animated movie, "Despicable Me," captures much of what one likes about Pixar cartoons.

Working without apology from the Pixar game book, Universal's first 3D-animated movie, "Despicable Me," captures much of what one likes about Pixar cartoons. Starting with a cute yellow creature who appears before the opening credits mimicking Pixar's bouncy table lamp, "Despicable" adopts the Pixar principle that all things which populate a child's fantasia -- whether toys on a bed, monsters in dreams or the robots and superheroes of science fiction -- are very, very real.