Despicable Me 2 album for the film, released on June 18, 2013 through Back Lot Music. The original music was composed by Heitor Pereira and Pharrell Williams. The album was promoted by the highly successful single "Happy" performed by Williams. "Despicable Me 2" received positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 74% approval rating with an average rating of 6.7/10 based on 177 reviews. The website's consensus reads, ""Despicable Me 2" offers plenty of eye-popping visual inventiveness and a number of big laughs." Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating from mainstream critics, gave the film
Despicable Me 3 visual wit and innate sweetness of the storytelling, and Carell’s cackling, cueball-skulled misanthrope — a (mostly) reformed scoundrel who can still have his cake, and arsenic too." Stephen Whitty of the "New York Daily News" gave the film 3.5 out of 5 stars, saying "The film has to rush at the end, to wrap up all these different stories, and it still leaves one of them open-ended." Illumination's CEO Chris Meledandri revealed in an interview in September 2017 that a fourth "Despicable Me" film is in development. Despicable Me 3 Despicable Me 3 is a 2017 American 3D computer-animated comedy