Despicable Me 4 (2024)

July 14, 2024 2:59 AM

Gru, Lucy, Margo, Edith, and Agnes welcome a new member to the family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad. Gru faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal and his girlfriend Valentina, and the family is forced to go on the run.
posted by TheophileEscargot (9 comments total)

Saw this with 4 kids who loved it. For adults, it's a bit of a formulaic retread, but the minions' slapstick remains fun, especially with the new mutant super-minions. The scene where the mutant minions come out of retirement is a joy.
posted by TheophileEscargot at 3:01 AM on July 14

I needed some mildly agreeable distraction last night, and honestly this fit the bill. Just slapstick, but sometimes that's what you want. The deconstruction of the Spiderman 2 subway rescue with the "Mr. Fantastic" minion, I mean I knew it was coming, but it still made me laugh.
posted by praemunire at 1:09 PM on July 14

I went with my wife and kids, nine and five, to see it today. I laughed a lot at the minions, and several of the comedic scenes were very good. It felt like a collection of sketches more than a coherent movie, but it was funny enough for me not to mind. Pretty much the only characters that had an arc were Poppy and Gru jr, but those were well done, so again I didn’t really mind how static the storytelling was. The kids really liked it, but they didn’t talk about it much afterwards, but I suspect they’ll return to it a few times in the future, like the rest of the Despicable Me and Minions films.
posted by Kattullus at 4:04 PM on July 14

I took my kids to this and we all had fun. As someone who grew up in the 80s, it's wild to go to these kids movies (the Mario moview as another we saw) where nothing is problematic - a lot of our childhood content didn't age well.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 6:40 AM on July 15 [2 favorites]

We've seen approximately 500 billboards for this in Romania, where it is called Sunt un mic ticălos 4, or "I am a little rascal 4."
posted by DirtyOldTown at 10:18 PM on July 15

We've seen approximately 500 billboards for this in Romania

Curious, how do they deal with Gru's Eastern European-ish accent there?
posted by praemunire at 8:53 AM on July 16

Didn't see the movie. It's dubbed, and my Romanian isn't good enough. And kiddo has learned Hungarian rather than Romanian.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 1:03 PM on July 16 [1 favorite]

DOT, I also haven't seen the movie, but it's being heavily promoted in Paris under the title Moi Moche et Mechant 4, aka Me Ugly and Wicked 4.
posted by Night_owl at 5:42 AM on August 6 [2 favorites]

Went to this with two of my children and two of their friends. They seemed to enjoy it. There were definitely some jokes that made me laugh, and some funny pieces of business.

But the actual plotting of this film was really bad in a way I don't feel like the others ones have been, particularly the rise of Gru.

There were a whole bunch of plot threads that went nowhere and were just disconnected from one another; Lucy and the girls were hardly in this movie. I did not like Will Ferrell's villain at all. The whole cockroach thing was just unpleasant with a bit of unnecessary body horror for a children's film.

I imagine they will make more of these films, but I cannot imagine them getting better from here
posted by Cannon Fodder at 2:49 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]