He’s rich and flashy, he has long, luscious blonde hair and – most importantly of all – he’s absolutely terrible at super-villainy. The film thankfully doesn’t try too hard to pull the wool over our eyes in terms of whether Gru is faking his potential relapse or not, instead choosing to give the audience more knowledge of what’s really going on than some of the characters. With Bratt, the 80s references come thick and fast, and they provide some light chuckles for some of the parents in the audience. There’s the Baltazar Bratt story which warns of the dangers of believing your own hype, and then there’s the Parent Trap homage that sees Gru discover his secret brother and fight the urge to join him. Dru is the opposite of Gru in almost every way. But will he be tempted to return to his villainous ways? Meanwhile, the Minions strike out on their own after growing tired of their new domesticated life, and Lucy attempts to bond with Margo, Edith and Agnes. The structure of the film mirrors the rather strange publicity, with a few different ideas smashed together. But Despicable Me 2 surpassed those expectations, and they’ve done it again here. When Gru (Steve Carell) and Lucy (Kristen Wiig) are fired from the Anti Villain League after allowing 80s television star turned bad guy Baltazar Bratt (Trey Parker) to steal a priceless diamond, Gru is forced to team up with his newly-revealed secret twin brother Dru (also Carell) in order to get it back. The world will likely not remember Steve Carell’s work as Gru, or Russell Brand’s now-dispatched Doctor Nefario, but the Minions will almost certainly live on until the end of time. It’s one of those lightning in a bottle situations, and as such the studio really had no obligation to their bottom line for these sequels to be any good. That’s always been the general thesis behind Despicable Me films, and Universal has done its best to give the people what they want. Come for the decent concept, stay for the Minions.
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