In Despicable Me 4, Gru (voice of Steve Carell), his wife, Lucy (voice of Kristen Wiig) and kids, Margo (voice of Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (voice of Dana Gaier) and Agnes (voice of Madison Skyy Polan), relocate to a new home with the help of the Anti-Villain League when his nemesis, Maxime Le Mal (voice of Will Ferrell), who he sent to jail, breaks out of prison to seek revenge against him and his family. Unfortunately, the screenplay by co-writers Ken Daurio and Mike White leaves a lot to be desired in terms of laughs and thrills. There's some slapstick humor that will engage little kids, but not much wit or anything else to keep adults entertained. Case-in-point: when Lucy gets a job at a hair salon under her new identity and mixes the wrong products together on the hair of a customer which lights on fire after a chemical reaction. Is the audience really supposed to laugh at the customer's head wrapped in a bandage later on? That's a mean-spirited joke. The plot is often disjointed, unimaginative and suffers from a very weak and forgettable villain. Very few of the jokes actually land, although there are a few that are mildly funny at best. There's also a bizarre subplot involving the neighbor's daughter, Poppy Prescott (voice of Joey King), who wants him to steal something for her. Moreover, the minions here are more annoying than they've ever been. They were funny in the first film in the series, but now they're essentially one joke that's lazily been repeated too many times. The Despicable Me franchise, much like the Kung Fu Panda franchise, has officially run out of steam. At 1 hour and 35 minutes, Despicable Me 4, co-directed by Chris Renaud and Patrick Delage, opens nationwide via Universal Pictures.