Despicable Me 2

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In the Arctic Circle, there is snow and ice as far as the eye can see. And, man, is it cold! There’s not a lot to do; even if you’re a Russian guard at a top secret research laboratory, time still passes slowly. Unless… you have a deck of cards!

Using an overturned barrel as a table, the guards engage in a serious game of poker. When one of them wins the game, he happily pulls the coins toward himself and does a celebratory dance, spinning around. When he finally stops dancing, however, he notices that his coins are gone!

He immediately accuses the other guard of stealing them, but his opponent insists he didn’t. The winner threatens the loser with a shovel, when all of a sudden, it flies into the air! Then the metal barrel follows!

The guards look up to see a gigantic magnetic ship hovering above the laboratory.

Suddenly, a lab door opens and a bunch of fellow guards rush out, pointing their guns at the magnetic ship.

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