

Despicable Me
Directed by Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
Determined to prove he's the world's greatest supervillain, Gru hatches an audacious plan to steal the Moon. To pull it off, he adopts three orphaned girls—Margo, Edith, and Agnes—intending to use them as pawns in his scheme. But the unexpected bond they form forces him to question the criminal life he's always known. From TMDB
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Despicable Me is a 2010 animation comedy crime film, directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, starring Steve Carell, Jason Segel and Russell Brand.
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Despicable Me earned $251.7 million in the United States and Canada and $292.5 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $544.2 million. It was the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2010. In the United States and Canada, Despicable Me was released with Predators on July 9, 2010. During its opening weekend, the film earned $60.1 million across 3,476 theaters. Its second weekend earnings dropped by 42 percent to $32.7 million, and followed by another $24.1 million on the third weekend. Despicable Me left theaters by January 20, 2011, making it the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2010. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 80% based…
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60 of 193 · most liked firstTIL that the Minions from "Despicable Me" are hard-wired to serve the most evil person on Earth, and also thousands of years old, so when the movie became a franchise, the writers had to strand them in an ice cave right after the Napoleonic Wars until 1968 so they wouldn't have to be literal Nazis.
neutral · AI labelView post →The minions work for Gru! He is not even the most evil person in any of the Despicable Me films! This piece of lore is clearly wrong; the minions just work for whoever has the most dangerously slapstick gadgets. Oppenheimer is the missing movie in the Minions franchise.
neutral · AI labelView post →my fool of a son comes to me asking to watch a Despicable Me movie. he says they are on Paramount+. nonsense. everyone knows the Despicable Me IP is owned by Universal, and is thus on Peacock. except that Despicable Me 3 is exclusively on Netflix. this is a good entertainment landscape for consumers
neutral · AI labelView post →One time I went on a date to the movies and my date told me I laughed too hard at the Despicable Me preview. Well yall the kiddos and I are gonna watch it for our movie night and I can't even remember that guys name. Hahaha 💁🏻♀️
positive · AI labelView post →Animated movies now streaming on Tubi: • Coraline • Corpse Bride • Despicable Me 3 • Monster House • The Angry Birds Movie 2 • Open Season • Charlotte’s Web • Monkeybone
neutral · AI labelView post →The Minions have been around long enough that Despicable Me is perhaps the only animated movie with a joke about the 2008 financial crisis
neutral · AI labelView post →this looks like a live-action version of a character who would fight Gru in a Despicable Me movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →i will say as someone who has seen more illumination movies than the average adult should; the problems with the mario movie are kinda sweeping problems with the whole studio LOL. Despicable Me 4 unironically has like, an F-Plot there's like 8 storylines
negative · AI labelView post →An Illumination employee’s LinkedIn profile listed that they're a "Senior Character Rig Designer on Untitled P P Movie". P P could stand for Princess Peach, but it could also refer to Despicable Me character Poppy Prescott or something else entirely.
neutral · AI labelView post →Nominees for Favorite Animated Movie at the 2025 Kids Choice Awards: Despicable Me 4 Dog Man Inside Out 2 Moana 2 Mufasa: The Lion King Plankton: The Movie The Wild Robot Transformers One
neutral · AI labelView post →Film critics often hear that they should not write about or review kids movies because they are for kids, not for adults, much less film critics. So I had my kids review the new Despicable Me for me. The link has our full conversation but here is a sample... screencrush.com/despicable-m...
neutral · AI labelView post →Fifteen years ago today (July 9), 'Despicable Me' was released in U.S. theaters. Revisit our conversation with Oscar-nominated director Sergio Pablos, who came up with the idea of a main character born to be a villain. www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s wild to me that because every Despicable Me movie after the first one (which did $544 million) was an easy $900 million+ for Universal, a new Minions movie (7th overall DM film) doing somewhere close to the original is being treated as a bomb, even though it’ll be profitable in the end.
neutral · AI labelView post →Trey Parker is now in Minions 3 No way they got his ass for a second Despicable Me film
neutral · AI labelView post →Born 1 Oct 1935, distinguished film, TV & Broadway actress, Julie Andrews is best known for her performances in films like Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music & Thoroughly Modern Millie. She has also done voiceovers for animation movies like Despicable Me & Enchanted. Happy 91st Birthday! #JulieAndrews
neutral · AI labelView post →Despicable Me is the most French-ass movie there could be, everything about it stinks of frenchness. hell the directors names are Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin
negative · AI labelView post →@billybob53.bsky.social @paradiddletriplets.bsky.social @brainchain.bsky.social @redloribrighteyes.bsky.social @aurorablogspot.bsky.social @hap.bsky.social @rickhavoc.bsky.social @isobelcarr.com @cheddarjack.bsky.social @livre.bsky.social Heading into the movie Despicable Me 4. See you later.
neutral · AI labelView post →I have never seen a Despicable Me movie, let alone a Minion movie. Are any of them actually good?
neutral · AI labelView post →Share an ANIMATED movie title that begins with the letter “D” 🎥 D is for… Despicable Me 💛
neutral · AI labelView post →Even though boomers love Minions, Despicable Me was actually a millennial movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Why is she dressed like a fucking supervillain in a Despicable Me film? www.thenational.scot/politics/259...
neutral · AI labelView post →My son chose Despicable Me 4 as today’s movie and I did not expect an Apt Pupil subplot.
neutral · AI labelView post →This guy next to me at the airport has EVERY SINGLE Despicable Me and Minion movie downloaded
neutral · AI labelView post →It's funny, Trey Parker was in Despicable Me 3, the movie that REALLY signified that franchise falling off, and now he's in the best reviewed movie in that franchise
neutral · AI labelView post →Took them long enough to have a Minions film where Gru doesn't factor in in the plot, has zero connections to Despicable Me, and have the Minions... ...just do what they do. And find a Lovecraft monster.
negative · AI labelView post →Brilliant box art for FASA’s VOR: The Maelstrom tabletop miniatures game, released in 1999. Unverified Wikipedia trivia: FASA is an acronym for the Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration. Freedonia is a fictional country popularized in the 1933 film Duck Soup and 2017's Despicable Me 3.
neutral · AI labelView post →In terms of family movies The biggest movie of the summer is going to be the next Despicable Me movie. Those minion movies never leave the top 10 most watched on Netflix.
neutral · AI labelView post →#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky #letterboxd #talktoveri The first 20 mins or so of Footloose was a bit insufferable. Then it got good. Family night got me the Despicable Me stuff, but I've enjoyed them. Better Off Dead is a cult film for me, welded to my identity. Tree of Life - A+
positive · AI labelView post →If I had never seen any movie so you showed me Despicable Me 4 and said “This is a movie” I would say destroy them all
negative · AI labelView post →Scenes of El Macho (Eduardo Perez) from the movie "Despicable Me 2"
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonights dinner is meatball subs plus we are going to watch the Despicable Me movie! 🤗 I can't wait. 💛
positive · AI labelView post →Russell Brand as both Dr. Nefario from Despicable Me and E.B. from Hop. His casting as E.B. especially just weird me out. And I'm ultimately glad the former got replaced by Romesh Ranganathan in the fourth film, even if apparently without Romesh's knowledge.
neutral · AI labelView post →I need to have a Despicable Me and Minions movie marathon soon!
positive · AI labelView post →I think it’s a real step in the right direction for Illumination to not only put out an original film, (their first since 2016 not counting Migration), but also experiment by making a more fully romantic film as well other than technically Despicable Me 2. Optimistic about this one.
neutral · AI labelView post →the film Gay Despicable Me starring Steven Carmel as GruPaul
neutral · AI labelView post →While it’s not among the best animated film of the year in the veins of the Pixar films (Hoppers and Toy Story 5), Minions and Monsters is not only the best Despicable Me film since the second main film, but also one of the biggest surprises of 2026.
positive · AI labelView post →Born 1 Oct 1935, distinguished film, TV & Broadway actress, Julie Andrews is best known for her performances in films like Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music & Thoroughly Modern Millie. She has also done voiceovers for animation movies like Despicable Me & Enchanted. Happy 90th Birthday! #JulieAndrews
neutral · AI labelView post →Except for Disney & Pixar’s Inside Out 2, animated film sequels haven’t been that good this year. Kung Fu Panda 4: okay Despicable Me 4: average Moana 2: unnecessary
neutral · AI labelView post →... Despicable Me 2 was the only movie to ever deeply *scare* me, and i had nightmares about purple minions for months. I cannot explain this one
negative · AI labelView post →Minions & Monsters was a fun movie. Second best movie of the Despicable Me / Minions franchise.
positive · AI labelView post →Minions was the first spin-off film of the Despicable Me franchise. The minions, led by Kevin, Stuart and Bob go through ages of masters, until they find a master that could serve them- Scarlet Overkill (Sandra Bullock), the world's most evil supervillain. Its a mediocre movie with messy pacing.
neutral · AI labelView post →“Thoughts on Despicable Me/Minions movie?” I haven’t seen them.
neutral · AI labelView post →Illumination may have its next billion-dollar franchise as the 'Mario' and 'Despicable Me' studio partners with Mattel Studios on a 'Barbie' theatrical animated feature. www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...
neutral · AI labelView post →New Despicable Me 5 info leaked: In the upcoming film it's revealed that Minions can only be killed by the Spear of Longinus
neutral · AI labelView post →This was the last time that the Oscars nominated 3 films for Best Animated Feature. And the first Despicable Me also lost its spot until eventually, the second film got nominated, twice with the other being Best Song, which remained the only Illumination film to be nominated as of 2026
neutral · AI labelView post →Parker pulled a Wiig and Coogan. He's the THIRD actor in the Despicable Me films to play two different characters in each film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Thinking back to the time when my kids were very small and saw Despicable Me 2 but were convinced it was the first film, and so for months regaled us with details from their favorite movie, Spickle Me Two One.
neutral · AI labelView post →#1 FILM FOR EACH STUDIO: 2024 DISNEY: INSIDE OUT 2 ($1.68B) UNIVERSAL: DESPICABLE ME 4 ($969M) WB: DUNE: PART TWO ($714M) SONY: VENOM: THE LAST DANCE ($476M) PARAMOUNT: GLADIATOR II ($438M) MGM: RED ONE ($185M) ... LIONSGATE: THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 1 ($47M)
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's movie, because we love them! 😄 Despicable Me.
positive · AI labelView post →I was watching one of the promotional featurettes for Despicable Me 2 (specifically "Steve Carell Explains 3D Animation"), and then I found this Lucky Block plush on top of one of the Illumination crew members' desktops. I guess they *were* the best studio to handle a Mario movie after all!
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m surprised no one has made a Scary Movie/Seltzerberg-like parody about animated films. If I were to make such a film, it would mainly poke fun at some common tropes in modern animation. A riff on Despicable Me would be the basis for the main story.
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy New Year, Michael! I haven't watched scripted TV/film in a long time as I've been more into video essays on YouTube recently, but I have been watching the Despicable Me/Minions films on iPlayer over Christmas - they're very silly, fluffy & fun www.imdb.com/title/tt1323...
positive · AI labelView post →Warning to film going NZers: Cinema 3 in Pukekohe NZ called police in to eject two mothers and their children for bringing snacks into a screening of Despicable Me 4. Despicable behaviour? Yes. I don't mean the families stretching funds to go to the cinema. www.theguardian.com/film/article...
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old. Can you tell I was the main babysitter? 🤣🤣🤣 From Despicable Me to Twilight saga 😂😂😂 none above just in-between
neutral · AI labelView post →“Favorite movies from age 20?” I don’t want to be reminded about 2017’s lackluster lineup for theatrical animated films. It would be Coco, I guess. Not saying much when its competitions were The Boss Baby, Emoji Movie, a Despicable Me movie that was weaker than average.
neutral · AI labelView post →I wasn’t on social media when i saw it, but i will post now: See. Minions. And. Monsters. IMMEDIATELY. I have only previously seen Despicable Me 1 and 2. I am not a Minions person But that was a beautiful love letter to the art of filmmaking and possibly a perfect movie
positive · AI labelView post →‘MINIONS & MONSTERS’ arrives on digital platforms August 11. The film earned more than $400M worldwide against an $85M budget, marking the lowest-grossing entry in the ‘DESPICABLE ME’ franchise. #MinionsAndMonsters #DespicableMe
neutral · AI labelView post →Another day, another Minions movie. But based on the reviews that I’ve heard so far…this might be more than just another Minions movie or specifically the best Despicable Me film since the first two films. Welp, let’s see what the Minions are up to this time.
neutral · AI labelView post →33. Despicable Me Absolute classic of a film. Funny, hits when it needs to, and still holds up extremely well to this day
positive · AI labelView post →We had a great time on the CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED podcast this week, reviewing DESPICABLE ME 4, MAXXINE and BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F., and discussing at length the scene in this new film that recontextualizes the whole series by suggesting that Axel Foley is asexual. It tracks, and it's really cool!
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