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This one has a purposeful, "We are making the kind of comedy that collects a bunch of stuff that we find funny and binds it with wisps of plot" vibe to it rather than being sloppy or distracted. Overall, the outcome is likably irreverent yet patchy in Despicable Me 4 2024 on Soap2Day Movies. It's a movie along the lines of a decent Will Ferrell or Mike Myers film, a late-period Marx Brothers comedy, or an Inspector Clouseau comedy from Peter Sellers, where the "boys" are getting close to sixty and let stuntmen do most of the slapstick, but you laugh because everyone knows what works. In this one, Will Ferrell portrays Maxime Le Mal, a snobby Frenchman who went to Lycée Pas Bon, Gru's alma mater.