 Despicable Me 2 received generally positive reviews from critics . The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 73 % approval rating with an average rating of 6 @.@ 6 / 10 based on 172 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 a score of 62 out of 100 , based on 39 critics , indicating " generally favorable reviews " . The film earned an " A " from audiences polled by CinemaScore , on an A + to F scale . 
