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‘Despicable Me 4’ Review: Illumination Adds a Baby and Five Mega Minions to Gru’s Already Overcrowded Family
Previous entries played like feature-length cartoons. 'Despicable Me 4' feels like someone shoehorned a bunch of shorts into a messy 90-minute movie.
Compared to the “Toy Story” franchise, in which Andy aged alongside the series, Gru ( Steve Carell) and his crew — wife Lucy (Kristen Wiig) and their girls (voiced by Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier and Madison Skyy Polan) — don’t grow older or more interesting with each film. The four-quadrant humor spans different age groups and incorporates references to all the villains the franchise has seen before, which should appeal to that tricky young adult demo, using nostalgia to win them back to a brand they’d otherwise outgrown. Where the other leading computer animation studios strive for an emotional reaction, Illumination satisfies itself with laughter, and there’s lots of it in “Despicable Me 4.” As Maxime, Ferrell concocts a faux-French accent almost as thick as Gru’s Slavic one.
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