Review of Despicable Me 4 (Despicable Me 4) | Are minions still cute?

Despicable Me 4 doesn't have anything new to say, but it does return to one of the things we miss about Minions and Gru.

The series Despicable Me and Minions has become a very popular and profitable series since the first day, and although the spin-off series seems to have a brighter and better path, the main parts of this series seem to have lost their way and could not repeat the quality of the first two parts. do Now it's time for Despicable Me 4 to show if the story of the adult Guru and the minions still appeals to viewers or if they have reached the end of the line.

In Despicable Me 4, after seven years, Gru and the minions are going to return with a new adventure, and Gru is no longer a supervillain and has become an anti-hero. In the new era, he has started a new life with the minions, along with his wife and three daughters, as well as a new member of the family named Grove Jr., but they become the target of Maxime Le Mal and Valentina, who are evil characters from the world of criminals. Now they must escape.

But after the third part of the animation, the question has always been raised as to how far the story of the adult Guru and the minions is going to go and have they reached the end of their journey? The animation Despicable Me 4 has answered this question in a way. If we look at the story of the animation, we realize that despite a general idea, this story does not have a special payment and in the end it is more like an excuse to continue the story of Gru and his family.

The story and the villain are just an excuse to make Despicable Me 4 to entertain the audience for 90 minutes.

The point is that even the creators of the animation and Illumination themselves have come to the conclusion that they have really reached the end of the line and unlike the animation Minions: The Rise of Gru, which showed that we can see interesting stories in the youth of Gru and the minions, the animation Despicable Me 4 It showed that the adult Guru had nothing more to say. Part of the problem could probably be that Gru and Minions have become more popular for mischief and vandalism, and now they don't really have a reason to.

Gru is now an anti-hero, fighting evildoers and having a family, and the minions no longer have the subversive role of following a villain. Even though we can't actually see a specific story in this episode, the animation is still fun in a strange way. Illumination has always been a studio that's more about entertaining viewers than trying to produce an award-season-worthy work.

They have a formula that can still entertain and engage the viewer and here again it is proven that their formula still has its charms. So, in the end, they are going to repeat what they have done many times and they are not going to start their winning combination here and instead they are going to use this formula and method in the best possible way. They have even tried to give a new color to this animation by turning the minions into superheroes that have references to Marvel and DC comics.

However, even these efforts are not new or different in the end, and we have seen such efforts even in the previous episodes. Even using the cockroaches as an army like minions is exactly what we saw in the second episode. So they're still using ideas they've used before, but not all of them are going to deliver the same result, and ultimately the animation stalls at some points like Army of Cockroaches.

But the most interesting thing about Despicable Me 4 animation is where Illumination itself knows well the reason for the popularity of this series, and that is the villain of Gru. In one part of the animation, Gru is forced to cooperate with the new girl character of this episode to steal from the school of criminals, where Gru once studied, in order to not reveal his identity. This is without a doubt the best part of the animation and a reminder of why the series became so popular and why it has reached the end of the line.

In fact, when Gru isn't going to do something wrong, it can be said that the animation is nothing more than disposable entertainment and maybe even less fun, but compared to Gru trying to pull off a heist and sabotaging the minions, it's a fascinating combination that the original series seems to have. has forgotten This isn't just a reminder or a catchy segment, it's actually proof of where the anime needs to go and what it needs if it's ever going to make a fifth installment.

Gru's return to the world of crime is the best part of Despicable Me 4

Simply adding a villain with a strange appearance or the character of Guru Jr. is not going to make this episode attractive, and the creators of the animation seem to have understood well what they need to save the animation in 90 minutes. Although the character of Poppy Prescott is considered a secondary character in the story, he is the character that Grove needs to return to his peak days and leave his new world even for one night.

In any case, the first half of the animation is somewhat slow and maybe a bit boring, but with the beginning of the second half and the part where the hostage returns to the world of crime, the animation gradually rises. Superhero minions, on the other hand, are mostly destructive and although they are a repetitive part, they do what the animation needs and what we expect from them. In general, the animation follows the same path as we already knew, and this can be both positive and negative.

In fact, we know very well what we expect from this animation and why we came to it, and we are not going to have the expectations we have from Minions, from an animation like Inside Out 2. But this specific expectation that Illumination fully covers is itself a kind of negative point. Because the animation does not have a special risk and follows a specific formula, and as a result, we cannot wait for an attractive surprise, and the animation moves forward and ends as expected and repeated.

Although Illumination sometimes goes out of its frame like the Sing 2 animation, it can be said that the minions just follow a certain path. But the existence of a part like hostage robbery can be a kind of interesting surprise or even it can be said that the creators know what the animation really needs the story line, but they limit it to a few specific scenes to use it again in the future and this cycle continues. .

Also, the villains of this episode don't grab your heart, and in fact, like the story of the animation, they are just an excuse to have fun for 90 minutes. This is not a positive point, and in fact, if the animation has a better story and villain, we will definitely be on the side with a much better and more attractive work. But Illumination simply won't or can't get these parts right, sacrificing everything to make the animation fun.

In the end, Despicable Me 4 animation is not going to do anything new or different, and again with the same usual formula, it can be said that it is an entertaining work. However, the lack of a proper villain story and character makes the animation drop a lot, and the villain story and character are an excuse to make this episode. But the animation, with the scene of Guru's return to the world of crime, still has attractive and positive points to show why the series of minions have become popular and why they are entertaining works; Even if they are an average effect overall.