I saw this today. I liked it a lot, more than I tend to like non-Disney summer animated movies.

I liked how instead of pitting a supervillain against a superhero, it instead pits two supervillains against each other. I liked Gru's character arc, as it was fairly straightforward and simple enough for both adults and children to understand and relate to.

Not surprisingly, there's already talk of a sequel.

Agreed. The trailer didn't impress me, but a review by a trusted critic sold me. Because the title is Despicable Me. I expected non-stop despicable acts from Gru. But instead, he was a sympathic crumudgeon. His only reprehensible momemnt was at the top of the film. These were featured in the trailers, so it's not really spoiling. I'll just say popping and freezing.

There are nits, but I won't bother because it all falls under the umbrella of cartoon physics. Just one I'll mention. In the coffee shop, as Gru was freezing the customers, the counter lady, whom he didn't freeze, just stood there frozen in a trance. In real life, I'd expect a more frantic reaction like ducking for cover, or running for her life.

I could understand her being so terrified that she was frozen in fear. That's a very common reaction when someone shows up with a deadly weapon and stars shooting people. Hell, I might've reacted the same way.

"But instead, he was a sympathic crumudgeon."
Is that a play on the character's name (Gru = cru)?

Cookie Robots: If the hard-of-hearing Dr. Nefario had heard Gru differently, instead of Boogie Robots, what if he had made a dozen Cokie Roberts? I know...not the most hilarious joke from a visual standpoint and kids won't get it. But for a play on words, it makes better sense; at least to me.

If anyone's interested, this film premieres on HBO Saturday, July 2.

Parts of the film look to be swiped from the cartoons of Charles Addams. Gru looks rather like Uncle Fester.

The Bank president on the other hand seems to be the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert.

Some of the other character designs looked familiar as well, but I can't place who they were based on.

I read somewhere (TV Tropes?) that the city of Cairo is quite near to the pyramids, people don't usually realize it because most photos are taken facing away from the city.
If that's true then some of the shots of the area surrounding the pyramids are wrong because they only show a desert backdrop.

If Gru is a known supervillain, why hasn't he been arrested?

Given that this is a world where cartoon physics are in effect nitting the physics is iffy at best, but still...

1. Would waves drop as fast as they do in this film if the moon suddenly disappeared?

2. Dr. Nefaria says that the mass of the object affects how long it stays shrunk. However the evidence indicates that the shrink ray also reduces an object's mass (waves dropping, Gru holding the moon with no trouble) so how can an object's mass affect the length of time shrunk? The old mass no longer exists.

3. Dr. Nefaria figures this out based on discovering that the ship has returned to normal size & a minion coming back to normal size.
Lucky guess, or is he just that good?

Cairo is indeed close to the city. A photo of them that appears in my college art history text book showed the edge of the city in the background, IIRC. You can even go on Google Maps or Google Earth to see this. But how do we know the directions from which the shots in the movie were taken?

Maybe what was the mass of the object prior to shrinking effects how long the shrink affect stays before it dissipates?

But how do we know the directions from which the shots in the movie were taken?
Given that the camera seems to move all around in the pyramid scene I think we should have, at least, caught a glimpse of Cairo.