Illumination Studios serves up another distraction. What a bore.
It’s hard not to approach reviewing Despicable Me 4 with anything other than a sense of futility. Illumination Studios seems to have cracked the code for mainstream blockbuster success, not by being any good, but by being merely “Good Enough.” Good Enough distracts even the shortest attention spans. Good Enough keeps parents from feeling alienated by their kids’ tastes.
There’s nothing substantial to hold on to as the film flits between frantically staged scenes that use the setting of suburbia but never go so far as to satirize it–wouldn’t want to alienate a key demographic!–which is indicative of a film so concerned with aggressive hyperactivity that it can’t pause long enough to let the seed of a narrative take root. The closest Despicable Me 4 has to a character arc is the mute infant Gru Jr.
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