Despicable Me (2010)

Despicable Me (2010)
Rating: ★★★★
Jul 17, 2010Animation/Comic Travails of a Super-Villain
An animated effort about a mad scientist and three orphans. One entered this with zero expectation only for it to unexpectedly emerge as a side-splitting and completely charming pleasure

Despicable Me 2 (2013)

Despicable Me 2 (2013)
Rating: ★★
Jul 2, 2013Animation/Comic Travails of a Super-Villain
Despicable Me was a charming lightning in the bottle hit. Here Illumination Entertainment merely recyclethe familiar and already the cute sweetness and gags of the original are starting to feel like processed formula

The Secret Life of Pets (2016)

The Secret Life of Pets (2016)
Rating: ★★★
Nov 21, 2016Animation/Talking Animals
I really enjoyed Illumination Entertainment's debut film Despicable Me but thereafter they just seemed to slip into formula and following what every other animation studio is. Despite low initial enthusiasm, they regain their form here, doing nothing radically out of the ordinary but producing a modestly engaging work

The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019)

The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019)
Rating: ★★★
Sep 8, 2019Animation/Talking Animals
Illumination's The Secret Life of Pets came with a winning concept - a Garfield like series of wry observations on humanity by pets - and this is one amongst the current plague of animated sequels that emerges equally likably

Despicable Me 4 (2024)

Despicable Me 4 (2024)
Rating: ★★
Aug 16, 2024Animation/Comic Travails of a Super-Villain
More from the world’s cuddliest super-villain and those manic ritalin-deprived kids that are the Minions. Is there are life and creativity left in a franchise that has been milked for six films now?