After a seven year break from the main Despicable Me storyline, Illumination is back with a new film about the master anti-villian himself: Gru.

Gru faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal (Emmy winner Will Ferrell) and his femme fatale girlfriend Valentina (Emmy nominee Sofia Vergara), and the family is forced to go on the run.  

This new trailer is full of pop culture overload, including a surprisingly funny jab at the Marvel Comics universe, as Minions are put through a super-soldier enhancement process that turns them into analogs of The Thing, Cyclops, The Hulk, a caped flying bullet guy and something resembling a cucumber with legs.

Okay, I’m not seeing it either. But what we do see in the trailer is your typical slapstick Minion mayhem. What was Silas Ramsbottom thinking?

Gru (Oscar^® nominee Steve Carrell) and Lucy (Oscar^® nominee Kristen Wiig) and their girls —Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier) and Agnes (Madison Polan)—welcome a new member to the Gru family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad.

The film features new characters voiced by Joey King (Bullet Train), Emmy winner Stephen Colbert (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) and Chloe Fineman (Saturday Night Live). Pierre Coffin is back as the iconic voice of the Minions and Oscar^® nominee Steve Coogan returns as Silas Ramsbottom. 

Despicable Me 4 is directed by a co-creator of the Minions, Oscar^® nominee Chris Renaud (Despicable Me, The Secret Life of Pets), and is produced by Illumination’s visionary founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and by Brett Hoffman (executive producer, The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Minions: The Rise of Gru). The film is co-directed by Patrick Delage (animation director Sing 2 and The Secret Life of Pets 2), and the screenplay is by the Emmy winning creator of White Lotus, Mike White, and the veteran writer of every Despicable Me film, Ken Daurio. 

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