Despicable Me 3 (Pierre Coffin / Kyle Balda / Eric Guillon)

[Philip J. Fry]

https://trailers.apple.com/ca/universal/despicable-me-3/images/poster-large.jpg?lastmod=1

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euz-KBBfAAo

IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3469046/) / wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despicable_Me_3) / RT (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/despicable_me_3/) / Metaritic (http://www.metacritic.com/movie/despicable-me-3)

Official website (http://www.mivillanofavorito3.com/?redirect=off)

[Dukefrukem]

More of the same?

[kuehnepips]

Yes.

[Ivan Drago]

It says a lot about your franchise when the best thing about it is the group of side characters that got their own spinoff. Say what you will about the Minions being overmarketed, but they're the one element in this franchise that feels inspired, along with the looks of the characters that's reminiscent of French animation. Unfortunately, they’re trapped in the third movie of a franchise that’s ran out of ideas so fast after two, the writers have pulled the Twin Brother angle out of the Giant Barrel o’ Movie Clichés to keep their moneymaker alive. It’s so by-the-numbers that every plot point can be seen coming a mile away, and like everything else from Illumination Entertainment, forgoes injecting anything creative or ambitious in this tired franchise in favor of colorful, cartoony visuals and having characters make sound effects for the sake of having a sound effect to get a laugh from its target audience. It is harmless entertainment for kids, but for adults, there’s not much in Despicable Me 3 to latch onto.

[Sycophant]

I still find it weird that Trey Parker is in this, and collaborated on a song with Pharrell Williams for it.

I can't imagine 1999 Parker ever letting him live that shit down.

[Henry Gale]

I still find it weird that Trey Parker is in this, and collaborated on a song with Pharrell Williams for it.

I can't imagine 1999 Parker ever letting him live that shit down.

Wow, the marketing pivoted so far from his character to the Gru / Dru dynamic that I almost forgot it was the same movie.

And in 1999, Trey didn't have a ~3-year-old daughter. He pretty much said in the one interview I saw him do for this say that he just couldn't pass up the opportunity to make something his kid could watch, and that the sheer fact that Illumination asked him if he'd do a voice for them was a nice shock for him, since he said that kind of thing had honestly never happened.

I also see his wife post pictures of things like her and their daughter dressed as Belle for Halloween with him in a full Beast costume, so I'm pretty sure he's fully fine with embracing his dorky dad-ness now and loses no sleep over no longer having whatever edge sort of he once had that led him to do things like go to the Oscars on LSD in a J.Lo dress.