Director: Chris Renaud, Patrick Delage

Cast: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Pierre Coffin

Synopsis:

Despicable Me 4 is the fourth installment in the Despicable Me franchise. The movie follows reformed supervillain Gru and his family, including new baby Gru Jr., as they are forced to flee when the criminal Maxime Le Mal escapes and goes on a rampage with Valentina. Gru faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal and his girlfriend Valentina. Gru, Lucy, Margo, Edith, and Agnes welcome a new member to the family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad.

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A new addition to the family; a new arch nemesis; the same tried and tested formula of peppy 3D computer animation, benign villainy and inventively absurd sight gags. Despicable Me 4 may not reinvent the wheel (even if it does soup up a wheelchair with monster-truck-sized tyres at one point).

What it does deliver is a brisk, fan-friendly romp which may be a little thin on actual plot but is stuffed to the gills with jokes. The sixth film in the franchise sees Gru (Steve Carell) and his family, including his new baby son Gru Jr, forced to go into hiding to avoid his vengeful enemy Maxime Le Mal (Will Ferrell), a showboating braggart who is part man, part cockroach and pure, distilled evil.

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