Come and re-live the Old Time Drive-In Movie experience at Uptown Station’s Central Park!
Tonight’s Movie is Despicable Me
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Plot
The movie begins with a news broadcast revealing that an Egyptian pyramid has been stolen and replaced by a giant inflatable replica. When super-villain Gru (Steve Carell) hears of this, his pride is injured, and he resolves to pull the biggest heist of the century by stealing the Moon.
Gru tries to get a loan from the Bank of Evil and meets a young super-villain, Vector (Jason Segel), who annoys him. Bank president Mr. Perkins (Will Arnett) refuses to grant Gru the loan until he obtains a shrink ray necessary for the plan. Mr. Perkins tells Gru that he is getting too old and that new super-villains are younger and better, like Vector, who is revealed to be the one who stole the Pyramid of Giza. Before Gru leaves the bank, he freezes Vector’s head in anger.
Gru and his minions steal the shrink ray from a secret lab in East Asia, but Vector steals it from him. Gru and the minions chase him, piloting their ship after him and firing weapon after weapon, all of which Vector dodges. Vector then shoots Gru’s ship with the shrink ray, causing it to rapidly grow smaller with its passengers still inside. Gru and his minions manage to avoid being crushed, and ride their tiny ship back home.
Gru attempts to get the shrink ray back from Vector’s lair, but fails due to the formidable weaponry defending it, and is unable to get inside. After seeing three orphaned girls, Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier), and Agnes (Elsie Fisher) enter the lair to sell cookies to Vector, Gru adopts the girls from Miss Hattie (Kristen Wiig), the head of the orphanage, to use them to steal back the shrink ray. Gru has his assistant Dr. Nefario (Russell Brand) build robots disguised as cookies.
Gru shuts down Vector’s defenses, and he manages to steal the shrink ray, despite having numerous difficulties, and almost being caught by Vector. On the way home the girls ask to go to an amusement park known as “Super Silly Fun Land.” Gru agrees, intending to leave the girls there. Instead, the attendant says he, as an adult, has to ride the roller coaster with them. As the day goes along, Gru begins to bond with the girls, much to the annoyance of Dr. Nefario. Back at home, he presents his plan to Mr. Perkins via video. The girls keep interrupting him by drawing a picture of him sitting on his toilet, asking him if they could order pizza, and freezing his body with his freeze ray. Perkins again refuses to give him the loan, claiming that although he doesn’t have a problem with the plan, he just wants a younger villain to do it instead. Gru has a flashback of his childhood, depicting his wanting to go to the moon after seeing the first moon landing. When he tried to impress his mother (Julie Andrews) with models of the rocket (and an actual working one), she simply ignored him. Mr. Perkins calls Vector (revealed to be his son, whose real name is Victor) to the Bank of Evil to inform him that Gru has the shrink ray. Vector reassures his father that he will get the Moon. Gru almost abandons his plan due to lack of funds, but the girls and the minions take up a collection to keep it going.
However, Gru has to make a choice, because the moon will be in the optimal position for the heist on the same day as the girls’ ballet recital. Dr. Nefario, seeing the girls as a distraction, contacts Miss Hattie, who arrives to take the girls back. Gru, the minions, and the girls are heartbroken. Gru goes on with his plan and flies to the moon. Vector tries to latch onto the rocket, but Gru’s defense mechanism prevents him from doing so.
Gru makes it to the Moon and successfully shrinks and pockets it. Gru remembers the ballet recital and rushes to it. However, when he gets there, it has ended. There, he finds a ransom note from Vector demanding the moon in exchange for the girls. After Gru hands over the moon, Vector reneges on the deal, keeping the girls and the moon. This enrages Gru, who storms Vector’s lair, this time successfully breaching the defenses by dodging Vector’s heat-seeking missiles and making them blow up the outside entrance, as well as incapacitating a shark. Vector flies off in an escape pod with the girls. Gru holds on to the exterior of the ship. He nearly falls to his death, but is rescued by Dr. Nefario piloting the same ship that Vector shrunk earlier, which had regrown to its previous size. Nefario reveals that the larger the object, the quicker the effects of the shrink ray wear off. Very soon, the moon begins to grow and roll around inside Vector’s ship, slamming into him and smashing the girl’s prison cage, freeing them. Gru’s ship then deploys a grappling hook, which latches onto Vector’s ship. Dr. Nefario reverses thrusters, and Gru’s ship begins to pull back Vector to keep him from escaping. Gru then climbs onto the wing of his craft, and he tells the girls to jump, and that he will catch them. Edith and Agnes make it, but Margo is delayed by Vector, who grabs onto her and starts to close his ship’s boarding ramp, but the rolling moon slams him back into his ship. The grappling cable snaps, causing Gru and Margo to fall, but they are rescued by the minions. Gru’s ship accelerates and jets away as Vector’s ship explodes, and the Moon is propelled back into orbit, with Vector stranded on its surface.
Gru and the girls settle down to live a happy life as a family. Before the girls go to bed, Gru reads them a book he wrote called “One Big Unicorn” after the original book “Three Sleepy Kittens” was destroyed by Gru, who never liked reading it to the girls. The girls then hold a special ballet recital for Gru, his minions, and his mother who acknowledges Gru to be a better parent than she was. The music changes from Swan Lake to You Should Be Dancing, and everyone rushes on stage to dance. The film ends as Gru and the girls take the scissor lift to the roof and enjoy the view of the Moon.
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Cast
Steve Carell as Gru, the world’s former number one supervillain and a caring dad.
Jason Segel as Victor “Vector” Perkins, the world’s new #1 supervillain after he stole the pyramid of Giza and egotistical nerd. He has a penchant for inventing weaponry that launches fish and other sea creatures.
Russell Brand as Dr. Nefario, Gru’s elderly, hearing impaired scientist, collaborator and good friend, sporting a thick Cockney accent.
Julie Andrews as Gru’s mother Marlena. In several of Gru’s flashbacks, he showed her his plans to go to the Moon, but she showed little interest and enthusiasm in everything he said or accomplished.
Will Arnett as Mr. Perkins, the president of the Bank of Evil and Vector’s father. He is strong enough to crush an apple with one hand, and he views Gru as being too old and out of date for supervillain work.
Kristen Wiig as Miss Hattie, the mistress of a local orphanage, Miss Hattie’s Home for Girls. For the most part she seems to hate her job and sees the girls more as an irritation than anything else as well as using the kids as child labor.
Miranda Cosgrove as Margo, the oldest of three sisters. Cosgrove describes the character as very protective of her two younger sisters.
Dana Gaier as Edith, the middle sister of the group. A bit of a tomboy, she is described by her voice actor to be “sort of a trouble maker”.[citation needed]
Elsie Fisher as Agnes, the youngest sister. She is known for her fondness of unicorns.
Pierre Coffin as Tim / Bob / Mark / Phil / Stuart, five of Gru’s minions.
Chris Renaud as Dave, one of Gru’s minions.
Ken Jeong as Talk Show Host.
Danny R. McBride as Fred McDade, Gru’s next door neighbor.
Jack McBrayer as Tourist Father / Carnival Barker.
Mindy Kaling as Tourist Mother.
Jemaine Clement as Jerry, one of Gru’s minions.
Rob Huebel as Anchorman / Newscaster.
Ken Daurio as Egyptian Guard.
Every two weeks, through the summer, we show movies on Saturday night in Central Park. Usually we also show at least one movie per month during the winter too!
We have the Emerald Coast’s only giant 30′ inflatable movie screen, which we put up in front of the Flag Pole in Central Park. We have a great sound system, and in some movies you can feel the ground vibrate!
Folks bring their lawn chairs and blankets and spread out on the grass at Central Park to enjoy a wide range of family friendly movies. You can also sit in your car and listen to the soundtrack on FM 106.9.
There are always concession stands with drink and snacks, just as you’d expect. Plus of course, we have all the dining experiences at Uptown Station. Wine World Outlet open late on Movie Night and have a special selection for movie audiences, with cheeses snacks and non-glass containers.
Details of the upcoming movies are published on this website, in Upcoming Events, and the Events Calendar. You can also join us on Facebook and Twitter so you’ll get updates and reminders. Check the calendar and Movie Nights info for details of show times, movie trailers and synopsis of the movies.
We’re always open to suggestions for what movies to show, so please send us your suggestions.
Most importantly, Movie Nights at Uptown Station are FREE!
In some cases of bad weather, we have to cancel the movie but we post updates on this site and we send out information on Facebook and Twitter.
The only things we don’t have at Movie Night are pets and glass containers, so please help us with that.