Despicable Me 4 Was As Inevitable As It Is Despicable
Illumination was just a scrappy underdog animation studio until they came up with the first Despicable Me movie — then they became superstars with enough clout to court clients like Nintendo. But hits on that level are hard to reach twice….thus the sequels. Since none of you paid to see Migration last December, they have no choice but to trot Gru out again for a fourth Despicable Me later this year. The thing about this story is that it has the same problem Ice Age, Shrek and other franchises did when they made their first movie assuming it would be a one-and-done. In Ice Age, the woolly mammoth is the last of his kind. In Ice Age 2, he finds more like him. And then there are 500 more sequels where the mammoth has to find something to do after he’s already attained his life goal and completed his character arc. He has to go through the motions because the audience isn’t really there for the mammoth — they’re coming
