The animated box office juggernaut Despicable Me continues much to the frustration of Boris Johnson who wanted to use the title for his forthcoming autobiography. So now we have a fourth film suitably titled Despicable Me 4 that sees supervillain turned supergrass Gru now working for the Anti-Villain League (AVL) and happily living with his Lucy (Kristen Wiig) his three young adopted kids and a new baby alongside an army of ADHD addled yellow tic-tacs or minions as they are actually called.
This latest instalment kicks into action when Gru attends an awards ceremony which goes awry when his nemesis Maxime Le Mal (Will Ferrell) demonstrates his latest weapon that turns others into cockroaches which sees the supervillain soon imprisoned. The world …and Gru, are safe from his menace that is until Le Mal breaks out and is out for vengeance against Gru and his family. Gru’s suburban family life is over as he is taken into the AVL version of a witness protection scheme. To that end they find themselves pretending to be a solar panel salesman and hairdresser wife living next door to a super wealthy family and their daughter Poppy who has her own plans which Gru will be inescapably dragged into.
Maxime le Mal’s revenge plot soon takes a back seat to what actually are the secondary plots which includes the minions being developed by the AVL into a sort of Fantastic Four with super powers and jaundice issues, Poppy’s own misguided plan and the comic moments with Gru’s household minions making it all a little episodic as the film edges towards the final Maxime vs Gru face off.
Every frame in Despicable Me 4 has plenty going including throwbacks to previous villains in the franchise and there’s nods to films as varied as Terminator 2 and Spiderman 2 also. As the fourth film ( six if you include the Minions spin off films) this expands Gru’s family further with the introduction of new characters likely to appear in any fifth film and there’s a lot of fun to be had here and the minion madness shows no sign of franchise fatigue.
related feature : Cailey Fleming & Fiona Shaw talk IF, Ryan Reynolds and dancing with CGI creatures
related feature : The Rise of Gru from the 1970’s……
Here’s the Despicable Me 4 trailer….
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