The sixth entry in the “Despicable Me” franchise and a
sequel to “Despicable Me 3,” the film starts with Gru, reprised by Steve Carell,
driving to his school, Lycée Pas Bon, for a reunion. However, he is also
undercover for the Anti-Villain League (AVL) to arrest Maxine Le Mal, voiced by
Will Ferrell.
Maxine and Gru have been enemies since their school
days, especially after Gru sang Culture Club’s Karma Chameleon
dressed as Boy George at the talent show. Maxine, who was planning to sing the
same song, also dressed as Boy George, could not do so as everyone would think
he was copying Gru.
Maxine has made many villainous inventions including a
machine to turn people into cockroaches. Gru arrests Maxine who escapes the AVL’s
maximum security prison with help from his girlfriend Valentina, voiced by
Sofia Vergara, and wants revenge on Gru and his family.
The former director of AVL Silas Ramsbottom (Steve
Coogan) comes out of retirement to get Gru and his family, which includes his wife
Lucy (Kristen Wiig), adopted daughters Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana
Gaier), and Agnes (Madison Polan), and son Gru Jr (Tara Strong), to a safe
house in the upscale Mayflower neighborhood.
Despite the family, incognito under the name
Cunningham, try to blend in, they do stand out. Gru trying to make friends with
his neighbor the affluent Perry Prescott (Stephen Colbert) fails while Lucy trying
hair salon has an epic fail with burning a customer, Melora’s (Laraine Newman)
hair. Perry’s wife Patsy, voiced by Chloe Fineman, invites the Cunninghams to a
game of tennis, which Lucy knows is not a sign of being accepted.
The Prescott daughter, Poppy, voiced by Joey King,
however recognizes Gru and blackmails him to joining her on a theft to steal
his school’s mascot. Besides the three minions (Pierre Coffin) who join the Gru
family, the rest are at AVL headquarters and Silas puts five into a program for
the creation of Mega Minions. The program quickly ends as the Mega Minions
create all kinds of chaos while trying to help.
The voice work is fun with most of the cast reprising
their roles. Mini Anthikad Chhibber said in her review, “Romesh Ranganathan as
Gru’s quarter master Dr. Nefario and Chris Renaud as the tough-as-nails
principal Übelschlecht have a blast as do Ferrell and Vergara. Some of the
sequences are inventive, especially the one with the mega minion and the Swiss
cheese.”
Chhibber ended her review by saying, “Stuff keeps
happening through Despicable Me 4’s 94 minutes and before you know it, the
credits are rolling, which might be a good thing if you want to pounded into
submission with a relentless procession of gags. Despicable Me 4 is fun while
it lasts, but might not stand as a synonym for enduring.”
I think this film is just as fun as the previous
installments, but might not be as good as the last one. I don’t know where I
might rank this as I would have to think a lot about it. However, if you have
Peacock, and you missed the chance to see this in theaters, then I would highly
recommend everyone to see this film because you will have a lot of fun seeing
this. If you liked the previous films in the franchise, this is not one to
miss.
Thank you for joining in on this review tonight. Stay tuned
this Friday for the continuation of “Buddy Cop Month.”
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