Despicable Me watch order
There are 4 Despicable Me films, about 6.3 hours in total. The first was released in 2010, the latest in 2024. Watching in release order is the safest way to meet the story as audiences did.
The Despicable Me franchise centers on Gru, a supervillain (who later becomes a dad and a spy); his yellow-colored Minions; his three orphan girls, Margo, Edith and Agnes, and his wife Lucy Wilde.
- 1
Despicable Me (2010)
8 Jul 2010 · 95 min
Determined to prove he's the world's greatest supervillain, Gru hatches an audacious plan to steal the Moon. To pull it off, he adopts three orphaned girls—Margo, Edith, and Agnes—intending to use them as pawns in his scheme. But the unexpected bond they form forces him to question the criminal life he's always known.
- 2
Despicable Me 2 (2013)
26 Jun 2013 · 98 min
Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a powerful new super criminal.
- 3
Despicable Me 3 (2017)
15 Jun 2017 · 90 min
Gru and his wife Lucy must stop former '80s child star Balthazar Bratt from achieving world domination.
- 4
Despicable Me 4 (2024)
20 Jun 2024 · 94 min
Gru and Lucy and their girls—Margo, Edith and Agnes—welcome a new member to the Gru family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad. Gru also faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal and his femme fatale girlfriend Valentina, forcing the family to go on the run.
Order and dates from TMDB collection data. Unreleased entries are added once they get a release date.