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Despicable Me Revisit: Huh...Not Really a Despicable Movie

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    Copyright © Universal Pictures, Illumination Entertainment Title : Despicable Me Director : Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin Release Date : July 9, 2010     Another upcoming movie sequel, another revisit. Illumination's Despicable Me 4 is releasing on July 3 which is in two weeks. For the revisits right now, we will take a look back at the past Despicable Me films and see if they aged well or not. Let's start things off easy with Despicable Me , the first film of the series, which was the start of Illumination themselves. Released back in July of 2010, the movie unexpectedly got a positive reputation. It grossed $543.6 million worldwide, earning the tenth spot of 2010's highest grossing movies, and winning numerous awards for being one of the best animated movies of that year. Both critics and audiences praised it for its characters, humor, story, themes, and style. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has an 80% critic score joined with an 83% audience score, along with a 7.6/10 rat