Review Roundup – Steven Carell, Kristen Wiig Lend Voices for DESPICABLE ME 3

Kristen Wiig returns as super-spy Lucy, while Emmy, Tony and Grammy Award victor Trey Parker voices new villain Balthazar Bratt, a former child star who has become obsessed with the evil TV character he played in the ’80s.

Gru and his new wife Lucy (Kristen Wiig) lose their jobs at the Anti Villains League due to their failure to capture Bratt again. Bratt’s obsession with the worst of 1980s fashion and music trends provides some intermittent hilarity, not to mention a rooting interest for moviegoers of a certain generation who might be chaperoning those in the target demographic.

“Honestly take your Goslings and your Zayns Malik and give me 2017 Steve Carell”, drooled another.

Despite the relative success of the mission, the new head of the AVL is not pleased, and Gru and Lucy soon find themselves unemployed. This time around Steve Carell splits his time between two characters, Gru and his long-lost twin brother Dru.

But despite their constant bickering, Gru and Lucy ask Dru to help them chase after Bratt and recover the world’s biggest diamond that the latter stole. But where do the Minions fit in?

What keeps the movie watchable, for the most part, are the one-off flourishes built around incidental characters – Gru’s daughter searching for a unicorn, and of course the reliable Minions, who go to a maximum security penitentiary and immediately form its most hardcore gang. It’s unfair to the story and the original characters created if they become side characters to the side character. Gru’s army of servants the Minions got their own spin-off in 2015, with a sequel planned for 2020.

Margo (voiced by Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier) and Agnes (Nev Scharrel) in Despicable Me 3. Sure, we’re talking about a cartoon here, but the stakes just never feel that high. “Boy, the movie I’ve probably seen more than any other movie”. These scenes will appeal to parents like me who grew up in the ’80s. But make no mistake, a film with a climactic “dance fight” set to Madonna’s “Into the Groove” can’t be all bad. The element of the first “Despicable Me” that made it so grand was its unexpected emotional quality, where Gru took in three orphaned sisters wanting a new home.

Collider also agrees that the people behind the film placed a lot of plotlines in the story. There are also long periods of time where the jokes were not strong enough but thankfully the minions also return, and their subplot is injected throughout helping to bring more humour to the film with a much more visual aspect. It is also available in 3D.

You can now meet Minion Larry and Dru, along with Gru and his girls and more Minions, plus ride Minion Mayhem at Universal Studios Florida and Universal Hollywood.