After 2022’s Minions: The Rise of Gru, took fans back to Gru's origin story, Despicable Me 4 is set once again in the present. Gru (voiced by Steve Carrell) has left his evil aspirations behind ...

For “Despicable Me 2,” however, she’d begin voicing an Anti-Villain League agent, Lucy Wilde. That character ends up accepting Gru‘s invitation to go on a date.

“Despicable Me 4” continues the story of Gru, voiced by Steve Carrell. In the film, “Gru, Lucy, Margo, Edith, and Agnes welcome a new member to the family, Gru Jr., who is intent on ...

Gru, right, voiced by Steve Carell, his family and some minions arrive at a safe house in a scene from “Despicable Me 4.” (Courtesy of Illumination & Universal Pictures).

But Despicable Me 2 makes expert use of it; stay for the end credits, which are fabulous and give rise to the hope that the upcoming 2014 release Minions may be a worthy spin-off.

Just three years after the original's premiere, Despicable Me 2 hit the big screens. Then, in 2015, the hit prequel Minions was released, expanding on the main story and introducing new and ...

Updated on March 3, 2025, by Natasha Elder: The Despicable Me franchise and Minions movies are jam-packed with memorable quotes, many of which come from Gru.

Steve Carell voices Gru, the supervillain-turned-secret agent, for the sixth time as he parries the revenge efforts of his high-school nemesis, Maxime Le Mal, voiced by Will Ferrell.

Instead, Gru, his wife Lucy (Kristen Wiig), their three adopted daughters and their infant son, Gru Jr., deal with various low-level conflicts in their new undercover lives as the Cunningham family.

Gru, voiced by Steve Carell, is shown with two of his minions in a scene from the 3-D CGI feature ’Despicable Me,’ about a villain who meets his match in three little girls. ap photo ...

As summer cartoons go, “Despicable Me 4” isn’t in the same league as “Inside Out 2” but it does keep the kids from running up and down theater aisles. For that, we can be grateful.