Illumination's Despicable Me 4 Was a Waste Of Time...

Did you see Despicable Me 4 before me? What did you think of it...?

Let's be honest, "4" in a movie title is usually bad news

I know it's "cartoon logic" but it's weird that over the course of now 4 movies, the girls didn't age at all, yet time kept going for a baby to be born. It's kindof a shame that despite the first movie being all about Gru growing a heart and adopting the 3 he would've used as pawns in his evil scheme, now they're pushed to the back because the Minions were a smash hit. Even if they came up with "things" for them to do during the 3, or now 4 movies, you can tell they were an afterthought compared to the Minion's antics and the main plot with Gru.

At this point, they might as well call it "Despicable Cash grab"

I swear I used to love the first movie when I was a kid. I used to watch it with my brother all day, over and over again.

My issue with this movie is that it tries to do too much. So many different plot threads went on that none of them either got enough screen time or felt like they actually mattered

The first despicable me movie was absolutely great, but then everything just started to flop...

I don't like them having a baby at all. Gru was already a father with 3 adopted daughters, and babies are annoying in movies. It feels like them giving Gru a biological kid is a slight to the girls, as if they're not his "real" daughters because they're adopted. It might have been okay if the girls were more grown up. Margo being nearly an adult, Edith in her mid teens, and Agnes just becoming a teen. Then it might make more narrative sense to give him a new kid because his girls are growing up.

The only part I hate is that they missed the chance to call Gru Junior “Grunior” smh

I remember sitting in the movie theater and just… disappointed. There was close to no plot. And there were so many things going on that any plot that was there was drowned away. They made a bunch of jokes and references, but no story. So I left the theatre questioning what I just watched.

This was the worst of the franchise. 1. Despicable Me came out 14 years ago, so the original fans are 14 years older. Why is this movie made for kids even younger than their original fans? 2. Gru stopped being a villain after movie 1. That's what made it interesting, without this it's a bad spy movie. Spy Kids at least stuck to a gimmick. Why is a former supervillain groveling to make friends with the neighbor? 3. Filler. The movie is only an hour and a half, with too many scenes which do nothing for the story, and are hardly funny enough to justify at all. The salon, supermarket, and tennis scenes were just painful, boring and pointless. All they did was show our former supervillain and superspy being utterly incompetent in normal life, which isn't fun. 4. They skip the plot. Supervillain escapes from maximum security, off screen. Evil schoolmaster tracks down the family under witness protection, no explanation. Baby and supervillain are transformed from insects back to humans, like it's no problem. We get filler scenes while the plot is swiss cheese.

Despicable me is a ip that just needs to make a show. Movies dont do it, and after 3 they should've done a Gru chasing Dru show. It actually might have been really enjoyable to watch as a series.

This movie franchise original target audience is maturing/aging. So, this franchise should also mature with them. The people in charge are still trying to cater to kids, but kids clearly don't seem to be so invested, except for "look funny minions." If they took their writing seriously and respected their own lore, the previous long-term audience would come back for more while gaining new, younger fans as a domino effect for years to come. But if they keep at it with nonsense and minimum character development, then no more DM films will transcend. Just fast food cinema. Take your pick.

Why does no one talk about the plot hole from the end of “despicable me 3” where the brother steals the minions 😕😐😐😕😕😅😓

The one supermarket scene with the lady who was mad that her hair was ruined was a reference to the Terminator movies and franchise. If you listen to the music in the background, it is a DIRECT parody to the one of the T-800 throughout all of the movies.

One of my friends wants our group to go see this film tomorrow for her 25th birthday... needless to say, not looking forward to it. Especially not after this review. Pray for me lol

honestly the story would've been good if poppy was a neglected child (which is why she wants to go into villainy) but is taken under Grus wing as he tries to guide her towards good and teaches her that just because she wasn't treated well that doesn't mean she has to go into a villain role. This in turn could get Gru thinking about how maybe HE has been neglecting his OWN girls and could try to address that and have a heart to heart with them about the move and the new baby etc etc this would also make sense since Gru himself was a neglected child :/

I've not seen this movie, but after hearing it's essentially a "random BS go" type of film, I wont.

My thoughts... minor spoilers ahead... There is a lot to go through here, it feels like 10 trailers and 1 tv episode made into a movie, with some jokes from many years ago like "Honey Badger don't care" circa 2011. First movie came out in 2010 and was not aimed at 1-5 year olds, this one is 14 years later and is aimed at 1-5 year olds. The first 2 "jokes" of the movie are "they don't make regular milk anymore" which is a 1/10 Dad joke, and a goat that poops. The goat and baby raises several issues if you are dealing with Earth. Assuming the first movie was set in summer 2010, movie 2 can happen within days, on average 12 months to plan a nice wedding, Lucy is Pregnant in summer 2011 and this is roughly when they get the goat. Gru Jr. Is born 9 months later in fall, 12 months later he might speak, so we are probably into fall 2012. Not a problem but... So if Agnus was 4 at the start, Edith was 8, and Margo was 11... then Agnus would be 6, Edith would be 10, and Margo would be 13. But the baby goat would go from baby to adult in just 6-8 months, so Agnus' goat was young, had a son, and that son had a son to get the current one looking so young. Starting Scene, big issue Like 12 AVL agents attacked an evil high school with staff and a principle and 30 evil guests... and they somehow captured everyone or put trackers on them to capture before they left unharmed??? An evil high school that has no weapons checks and honestly should not have let Gru in because he's a famous snitch. Later all the bag guys from all 6 movies are in prison, the minions break the walls open, and none of them leave... none of these evil people who sing about how evil they are act like real humans. Big issue The Mega Minions story did not connect at all, AND most of the minions went to Dru by the end of the 3rd movue so why does Gru have more than a couple of his most loyal? Minor Why was Gru a solar panel salesman, we never saw a scene. Minor Why was Lucy so bad at hair, she was smart in movie 2 and could have at least looked up some basics Major Margo went to high school. Edith and Agnus went to Karate for like 8 hours, was it a just a Karate themed daycare, is the Karate Daycare Worker going to have to sue the AVL for emotional damages and lost wages while he can't wotk and has to move because he lost the resoect of his students? Yes, somehow the evil school had to only be 10-30 minutes away from the second town and over an hour away from the city. Doable, but weird. Witness Protection doesn't really work without the disguses, Gru and the minions still look like Gru and the minions. I feel bad about the one who got stuck in a vending machine until he ran out of snacks and starved, why couldn't they just let him out by the next scene? Also who is Ralph, what happened to Kevin and former king Bob? Climax felt weak compared to the all the 5 other movies, felt smaller scale and lower quality action. I have seen Spy X Family, Gru and Lucy doing Tennis had amazing promise, and they gave up for dozens of red card jokes that did not land. Gru should have expected an evil high school pet to have a tracker, and the evil principal should have sent the bug man to Poppy's Treehouse, she only got to Gru's house a few minutes before the bug man arrived. Missing scene, I wanted to see how the bug man's bugs got hin out of super jail. Kharma Chamelon is a weird song choice, puts talent show around 1984 (after song came out), almost no 5 year olds are going to get a 1984 song reference with lipstick and wig. So somehow Gru was about 10 in 1969 to see the moon landing live, and then 14 in 1984 for talent show. That one bothers me.... In my theatre, the nearby kids almost never laughed, but a few freaked out at when the bug man gave his angry threat video.

The song Pharrell made was the only saviour of this movie