How to Watch Despicable Me in Order

There are 4 films in the Despicable Me franchise. Below is the full list in release-date order — the simplest way to watch. For some franchises the in-universe chronological order differs; where it does, we note it.

The Despicable Me franchise centers on Gru, a supervillain (who later becomes a dad and a spy); his yellow-colored Minions; his three orphan girls, Margo, Edith and Agnes, and his wife Lucy Wilde.

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   Despicable Me (2010) July 8, 2010

   Determined to prove he's the world's greatest supervillain, Gru hatches an audacious plan to steal the Moon. To pull it off, he adopts three orphaned girlsu2014Margo, Edith, and Agnesu2014intending to use them as pawns in his scheme. But the unexpe…

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   Despicable Me 2 (2013) June 26, 2013

   Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a powerful new super criminal.

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   Despicable Me 3 (2017) June 15, 2017

   Gru and his wife Lucy must stop former '80s child star Balthazar Bratt from achieving world domination.

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   Despicable Me 4 (2024) June 20, 2024

   Gru and Lucy and their girlsu2014Margo, Edith and Agnesu2014welcome a new member to the Gru family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad. Gru also faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal and his femme fatale girlfriend Valentina, forcing the f…

Film lists and dates come from TMDB. “In order” here means release-date order; a franchise's in-universe timeline can differ. NewsGiga links only to legitimate sources and never to pirated content.