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36 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Boston GlobeOdie HendersonBoston GlobeOdie HendersonIt’s cheap pandering to fans, but I really couldn’t stay mad at a movie that uses Culture Club’s “Karma Chameleon” as a point of contention and has two shout-outs to one of the best movies of 1985, “Real Genius.”
- 70Screen DailyWendy IdeScreen DailyWendy IdeDespicable Me 4 may not reinvent the wheel (even if it does soup up a wheelchair with monster-truck-sized tyres at one point). What it does deliver is a brisk, fan-friendly romp which may be a little thin on actual plot but is stuffed to the gills with jokes.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeThe Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeThe plot can sometimes feel like a chaotic melange stretched too thin, but White, who wrote the Illumination avian charmer Migration, elevates the overall narrative by injecting doses of his perennial interest in the social codes of the rich. The Minions get a zany B plot that becomes one of the film’s strongest threads, and a strong voice cast keeps the film engaging and nimble.
- 60VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeAt times, it feels less like a feature than a collection of Looney Tunes-y shorts piled one on top of another.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt isn’t a masterpiece, and no one needs Despicable Me 5, but being unassumingly enjoyable isn’t easy.
- 50SlashfilmRafael MotamayorSlashfilmRafael MotamayorThe overstuffed "Despicable Me 4" abandons any pretense of caring about characters or narrative, choosing instead to fit in as many gags, characters, and little stories with as little consequences as they can.
- 50The PlaylistRodrigo PerezThe PlaylistRodrigo PerezDespicable Me 4 is just messy and wearying, even at a scant 95 minutes.
- 50The Associated PressJake CoyleThe Associated PressJake CoyleSix films in and with more on the way, too much of a good thing is becoming more of a pressing question in “Despicable Me 4,” a silly and breezy installment from Illumination Entertainment that passes by with about as much to remember it as a Saturday morning cartoon.
- 40CNNBrian LowryCNNBrian LowryA tired, disjointed medley of madcap visual gags, the animated film yields roughly as many legitimate laughs as can be counted on a Minion’s three-digit hand.
- 33The A.V. ClubLeigh MonsonThe A.V. ClubLeigh MonsonGood Enough is a few bland chuckles uttered in a vacuous 90 minutes you struggle to remember even as the credits start to roll. Good Enough is a black hole, of which Despicable Me 4 is the singularity.