Despicable Me , IQ Score 127/200
Despicable Me has an IQ Score of 127/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Competent tier.
Engages without demanding much, watchable and reasonably crafted
Score Breakdown
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud's 2010 Illumination feature whose super-villain-becomes-adoptive-father premise is rendered with more emotional commitment than the franchise's later Minions-economy diluted. Steve Carell's Gru is unusual animated-protagonist work whose accent and Eastern-bloc backstory commit to a register most family animation avoids.
The film that launched Illumination as a studio.
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Despicable Me scored 127/200 (Competent tier) on TV Intelligentsia's published methodology. Source: tvintelligentsia.com/titles/despicable-me/
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