A brand new Despicable Me 4 clip from Illumination‘s upcoming animated sequel has dropped, featuring everyone’s favorite yellow henchmen in suits. The highly-anticipated movie is slated to arrive in theaters on July 3, 2024.
Check out the Despicable Me 4 clip below (watch more trailers):
What happens in the new Despicable Me 4 clip?
The latest Despicable Me 4 clip shows most of Gru’s Minions at the Anti-Villain League, where five of them get chosen to become test subjects for an experiment. This super serum experiment turns them into elite agents with different unique powers.
The fourth installment is directed by Chris Renaud and Patrick Delage from a screenplay written by The White Lotus creator Mike White and Ken Daurio. The film stars returning cast members Steve Carell as Gru, Miranda Cosgrove as Margo, Kristen Wiig as Lucy, Dana Gaier as Edith, Madison Polan as Agnes, Steve Coogan as Silas Ramsbottom, and Pierre Coffin as the Minions. Joining them are franchise newcomersWill Ferrell, Sofia Vergara, Joey King, Stephen Colbert, and Chloe Fineman. It is produced by Chris Meledandri and Brett Hoffman.
“In the first Despicable Me movie in seven years, Gru, the world’s favorite supervillain-turned-Anti-Villain League-agent, returns for an exciting, bold new era of Minions mayhem in Illumination’s Despicable Me 4,” reads the synopsis. “The film begins a new chapter with Gru and Lucy and their girls welcomed a new member to the Gru family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad. Gru faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal, and his femme fatale girlfriend Valentina (Vergara), and the family is forced to go on the run.”