
Forcibly brought to the AVL headquarters, Gru is asked by Silas to help them track down the culprit and recover the mutagen. Director Silas Ramsbottom of the Anti-Villain League (AVL) sends one of their agents, Lucy Wilde, to recruit former supervillain Gru. A sixth film, Despicable Me 4, is in development and will be released in 2024.Ī mysterious aircraft, in the form of a giant magnet, steals a highly potent mutagen known as PX-41 from a secret laboratory in the Arctic Circle.

It is the second entry in the Despicable Me franchise, which includes Minions (2015), Despicable Me 3 (2017), and Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022). It was nominated for two awards at the 86th Academy Awards, and received numerous other accolades.

It received generally positive reviews from critics and earned $970.8 million worldwide, becoming the third-highest-grossing film of 2013 and the most profitable film in the 101-year history of Universal Pictures. During their investigations, they extract El Macho, a supervillain with the goal of achieving world domination after faking his death.ĭespicable Me 2 debuted in Australia on June 5, 2013, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 3, by Universal Pictures. The film follows Gru as he is recruited by secret agent Lucy Wilde, who is investigating a theft of the mutagen PX-41, stolen from the Arctic Circle.

It stars the voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Benjamin Bratt, Miranda Cosgrove, Russell Brand, and Ken Jeong. The sequel to Despicable Me (2010), it is directed by Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin, and written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio. Despicable Me 2 is a 2013 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Illumination Entertainment and distributed by Universal Pictures.
