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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