Despicable Me
“Superbad. Superdad.”
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.
How Despicable Me compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Despicable Me, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #1 of 4
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 41%
- Share of the series audience
Despicable Me (2010) is the highest-rated of the 4 rated films in the Despicable Me series, at 7.3/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.9/10.
It is the film that started the series, 14 years before the most recent entry, Despicable Me 4 (2024).
Its 16,365 TMDB ratings are 41% of the 39,714 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Despicable Me, comparing all 4 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.
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