Despicable Me

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 girls—Margo, Edith, and Agnes—intending to use them as pawns in his scheme. But the unexpected bond they form forces him to question the criminal life he's always known.

Despicable Me landed as a likable, energetic crowd-pleaser that most critics found fun without finding exceptional — the central debate being whether its villain-turned-softie formula earns genuine warmth or settles for a cheaper, more mechanical version of Pixar-style sentiment. Audiences embraced it more warmly than critics, who were broadly positive but split sharply on whether 'good enough' is good enough.