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 Villain" (), was rated for ages 3–6 years. The puppet book "Sleepy Kittens" () was written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio and illustrated by Eric Guillon. A video game titled "Despicable Me: The Game" was released for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and Wii. A Nintendo DS version was released under the name "Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem". Namco also released a version for the iPhone and iPad platform entitled "Despicable Me: Minion Mania", developed by Anino Games. An application for iOS and Androids was also released under the name "Despicable Me: Minion Rush". It was developed by Gameloft and