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Despicable Me

Four films about Gru and three prequels about the Minions, interleaved in the worst possible order.

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Where to start with Despicable Me

Release order, and this is a case where the chronological alternative is genuinely a bad idea. Three of the seven films are prequels, and watching them first hands you three films about characters you have no reason to care about yet.

  1. 1
    Despicable Me (2010) Despicable Me

    A supervillain adopts three girls, and the Minions are background. It works completely on its own and it is the only film here that assumes nothing.

  2. 2
    Despicable Me 2 (2013) Despicable Me 2

    Follows on directly and shifts Gru from villain to agent, which is the setup for everything after. It is also the point at which the Minions take over the marketing.

  3. 3
    Minions (2015) Minions

    A prequel whose main story is captioned 1968, ending with the introduction of a young Gru. That ending only works as a reveal if you already know who he is, which is why it goes third rather than first.

Then what? Then Despicable Me 3, The Rise of Gru, Despicable Me 4, and Minions & Monsters, which came out on 1 July 2026 and is set in nineteen-twenties Hollywood. In story order the three prequels run Minions & Monsters, then Minions, then The Rise of Gru, and then the four Gru films; it is coherent, but it spoils the one good joke the prequels have.

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