Despicable Me 4, the sixth Minions-oriented movie that continued the series’ absurdly prolific ROI with a $750 million worldwide box office grab (and still counting), is now available to stream on Peacock and VOD services like Amazon Prime Video. This franchise has already bulldozed $5.2 billion into Universal and Illumination’s coffers, and that’s just ticket-sales money – you’ve surely seen Minion faces on kumquats and snack cakes and other assorted supermarket effluvia, thanks to an endorsement deal-slash-marketing blitz that threatens to blanket the earth every two-to-three years. In other words, ubiquity is this series’ strength. And even though some of us have Had Enough Of This Silliness, the numbers don’t lie, and that’s the reason these movies exist. Oh, and to make children giggle. Can’t forget the children.
The Gist:We open with a brouhaha at Gru’s (Steve Carell) high school reunion. It’s a high school for supervillains, of course, and it stirs the …