Despicable Me 3

For the soundtrack, see Despicable Me 3.

Despicable Me 3
A minion with one eye wearing black-and-white striped denim overalls, with a tattoo that reads "GRU LIFE" around his arms.
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Written byCinco Paul
Ken Daurio
Produced by
Starring
Edited byClaire Dodgson
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed byUniversal Pictures[1]
Release dates
  • June 14, 2017 (2017-06-14) (Annecy)
  • June 30, 2017 (2017-06-30) (United States)
Running time
90 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$80 million[3]
Box office$1.035 billion[4]

Despicable Me 3 is a 2017 American animated comedy film produced by Universal Pictures and Illumination, and distributed by Universal. It is the sequel to Despicable Me 2 (2013), the third main installment, and the fourth overall installment in the Despicable Me franchise. The film was directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda, co-directed by production and character designer Eric Guillon, and produced by Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy, from a screenplay by the writing team of Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio. It stars the voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Trey Parker, Coffin, Miranda Cosgrove, Steve Coogan, Jenny Slate, Dana Gaier, Nev Scharrel, and Julie Andrews. In the film, Gru teams up with his long-lost twin brother Dru to stop Balthazar Bratt, a former child actor of the 1980s, from destroying Hollywood after his show was canceled years ago.

Development on a third main Despicable Me film began in 2013 with Coffin returning as director alongside Balda. The film was in the early writing stages by 2014, while the cast was announced in 2016. Heitor Pereira and Pharrell Williams returned for the music like the first two films.

Despicable Me 3 debuted at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival on June 14, 2017, and was theatrically released in the United States on June 30. Despite mixed reviews, it grossed $1.035 billion worldwide, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2017 and the fourth-highest-grossing animated film of all time during its theatrical run. A sequel, Despicable Me 4, was released in 2024.

Plot

Married Anti-Villain League (AVL) agents Felonious Gru and Lucy Wilde are sent to recover the stolen Dumont Diamond from Balthazar Bratt, a former child star who became a supervillain after his show, Evil Bratt, was canceled. Gru recovers the diamond, while Bratt escapes. At the AVL headquarters, director Silas Ramsbottom announces his retirement, and appoints board member Valerie Da Vinci as the new director. Da Vinci dismisses Gru and Lucy from the AVL, believing they should have captured Bratt during the mission.

When Gru and Lucy return home, they tell their adopted daughters Margo, Edith, and Agnes of their dismissal, but assure them they will soon have new jobs. When Gru refuses to return to being a supervillain, and with his assistant Dr. Nefario accidentally frozen in carbonite,[a] most of his Minions, led by Mel, abandon him to find new jobs. They eventually land in jail after accidentally crashing into a television studio.

A butler named Fritz arrives at Gru's home with an invitation from his long-lost twin brother Dru, who lives in a distant country named Freedonia. The family travels to meet Dru, and are surprised by his immense wealth and mansion. Meanwhile, Bratt steals the diamond again, intending to use it to power a giant robot that will destroy Hollywood, as revenge for his show's cancelation. Dru reveals to Gru that their dead father was a supervillain known as "the Bald Terror", whose villainous activities and technological advances are the real source of the family's wealth. Dru wants Gru to teach him how to become a villain, but Gru refuses to revert to his old ways. While Lucy struggles with her new tasks as a mother, Dru and Gru become closer after joyriding in their father's high-tech vehicle.

Gru and Dru decide to steal the diamond; however, Gru secretly intends to bring it to the AVL to convince Da Vinci to rehire him and Lucy. They narrowly escape with the diamond and are rescued by Lucy. Dru, finding out Gru's true motives, is upset that Gru lied about teaching him how to be a villain. In return, Gru berates Dru for his incompetence, disowns him, and decides to leave Freedonia.

Bratt, disguised as Lucy, kidnaps the girls, and once again acquires the diamond. Discovering this, Gru and Dru put aside their differences; the brothers and Lucy set off after Bratt in the Bald Terror's vehicle. The Minions, having escaped jail, manage to follow them. With his robot's laser powered by the diamond, Bratt terrorizes Hollywood, covering it in superpowered bubble gum in hopes of lifting the city into outer space. Lucy rescues the girls from a falling skyscraper as Bratt sends Gru and Dru crash-landing into the streets of Hollywood. Bratt tries to kill Gru with the robot's laser, but Dru risks his life to break into the robot and power it down from the inside. Gru engages Bratt in a dance fight before stealing his weaponized keytar to defeat him, and send him float away in bubble gum just as AVL helicopters arrive in time. As the Minions pop the bubble gum bubbles covering the city, Dru and Gru reconcile, and share an embrace with Lucy, Margo, Edith and Agnes.

Gru and Lucy are reinstated into the AVL. The newly united family celebrates in Gru's home, and the girls acknowledge Lucy as their mother. Still wishing to be a supervillain, Dru, along with most of the Minions, steals Gru's rocket-powered aircraft and flies away. Gru and Lucy decide to give them a five-minute head-start before engaging in pursuit.

Voice cast

  • Steve Carell as Felonious Gru, simply called Gru, a spy and former villain turned Anti-Villain League agent. He is the adoptive father of Margo, Edith and Agnes, and Lucy's husband.[6]
    • Carell also voices Dru Gru, the long-lost twin brother of Gru, and the girls' adoptive uncle.[6][7]
  • Kristen Wiig as Lucy Wilde, an Anti-Villain League agent who is the wife of Gru, and the girls' adoptive mother[8]
  • Trey Parker as Balthazar Bratt, a super-villain and former child star who grows up to become obsessed with the character that he played in the 1980s and is bent on world domination[6]
  • Pierre Coffin as Mel and the other Minions[9]
    • Coffin also voices a museum director and does additional voices with Kyle Balda[10]
  • Miranda Cosgrove as Margo, the oldest and clever adopted daughter of Lucy and Gru[8]
  • Steve Coogan as Silas Ramsbottom, the director of the Anti-Villain League, who retires at the beginning of the film[10]
    • Coogan also voices Fritz, Dru's butler.[10]
  • Jenny Slate as Valerie Da Vinci, a tyrannical member of the Anti-Villain League who becomes the new AVL director[11]
  • Dana Gaier as Edith, the middle and mischievous adopted daughter of Lucy and Gru[12]
  • Nev Scharrel as Agnes, the youngest and innocent adopted daughter of Lucy and Gru. She was originally voiced by Elsie Fisher in the first two films[13]
  • Julie Andrews as Gru and Dru's mother[10]

Additionally, Andy Nyman voices Clive the robot, Bratt's sidekick,[10] and Adrian Ciscato voices Niko, a boy from Freedonia who falls in love with Margo.[10]

Production

Development

Development of Despicable Me 3 began in 2013, when production and character designer Eric Guillon began supervising the process as a co-director with Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda, both of whom had concluded work on Minions (2015).[14][15] While the development was underway in 2014, Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri reported that the film was in early writing stages.[16] The production team intended to give each Despicable Me film its own "larger narrative positioning", allowing the expansion of the main characters' stories.[14]

Casting

In April 2016, it was reported that Steve Carell would reprise his role as Gru and also voice his twin brother Dru, and that Trey Parker was cast as Balthazar Bratt.[6] In September 2016, it was announced that Miranda Cosgrove and Kristen Wiig would reprise their roles as Margo and Lucy Wilde, respectively, and that Nev Scharrel would replace Elsie Fisher as Agnes.[8][13]

Music

Main article: Despicable Me 3 (soundtrack)

The soundtrack for Despicable Me 3 was released on June 23, 2017. Pharrell Williams released the new song "Yellow Light" for the soundtrack, which was made available through digital download and streaming.[17]

Marketing and release

A giant poster advertising the film at the BFI Imax in the South Bank district of London.
Poster for the film at the BFI IMAX in London, England.

The marketing campaign of Despicable Me 3 included promotions, such as the star ratings being replaced with the Minions during Amazon's "Minion Day", and BuzzFeed's "character takeover" badges. In New York City, 600 taxicabs had the sculpted Minions atop of them, of which had a Minionese greeting. Additional marketing partners for the film included 23 & Me, Chiquita, Ferrero, Kellogg's, McDonald's, Procter & Gamble, Topps, and Yummy Spoonfuls.[18]

Despicable Me 3 debuted at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival on June 14, 2017,[19] followed by a premiere on June 24, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.[20][21] The film was released in the United States on June 30.[22]

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment released Despicable Me 3 for digital download on November 21, 2017, and on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD on December 5. Physical copies contain The AVL Database, behind-the-scenes featurettes, character descriptions, a Freedonian map, a deleted scene, a "Doowit" sing-along version, Minion mugshots and posters, a short film The Secret Life of Kyle, and a "Yellow Light" music video.[23]

Reception

Box office

Despicable Me 3 earned $264.6 million in the United States and Canada and $770.2 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $1.034 billion.[4] It was the fourth highest-grossing film of 2017 and the fourth highest-grossing animated film of all time.[24][25] Deadline Hollywood calculated its net profit at $366.2 million, accounting for production budgets, marketing, talent participation, and other costs; box office grosses and home media revenues placed it third on their list of 2017's "Most Valuable Blockbusters".[3]

In the United States and Canada, Despicable Me 3 was released with The House and Baby Driver.[26] The film grossed $29.2 million on its first day,[27] including $4.1 million from Thursday night previews.[28] During its opening weekend, Despicable Me 3 grossed $75.4 million across 4,529 theaters, which was increased to 4,535 the following week, making it the number-one film. This surpassed the record of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse's (2010) 4,468 theaters to become the widest release ever until Avengers: Endgame (2019) took over with 4,662.[b] The film fell to number two in its second weekend with a gross of $34 million,[33] and number six in its third with $19.4 million.[34] Despicable Me 3 left theaters by December 21, 2017.[35]

Worldwide, Despicable Me 3 grossed $9.9 million during its opening weekend in five markets on June 16.[36] This was followed by its third weekend, grossing $95.6 million with an increased market count of 46.[37] Its top international markets were China ($158.2 million), Japan ($66.2 million), the United Kingdom ($62.7 million), Germany ($43.8 million), and France ($41.4 million).[38]

Critical response

The film has an approval rating of 58% based on 195 professional reviews on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, with an average rating of 5.7/10. Its critical consensus reads, "Despicable Me 3 should keep fans of the franchise consistently entertained with another round of colorful animation and zany—albeit somewhat scattershot—humor."[39] Metacritic (which uses a weighted average) assigned the film a score of 49 out of 100 based on 37 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[40] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale, down from the first two films' and Minions's (2015) "A".[30]

Alex Welch of IGN gave the film a six out of ten score, saying, "It's not much, but Despicable Me 3 is at least enough for the younger fans of the franchise."[41] Peter Debruge of Variety wrote, "Despicable Me 3 is unwieldy, but it mostly works, as co-directors Pierre Coffin (who also voices the Minions) and Kyle Balda never lose sight of the film's emotional center, packing the rest with as much humor as they can manage. The jokes come so fast and furious, the movie can hardly find room for Heitor Pereira's funky score, and though Pharrell Williams has contributed five new songs to sell soundtracks (including the sweet "There's Something Special"), the movie hardly needs them."[42] Alonso Duralde of TheWrap gave the film a mixed review, saying: "Ultimately, none of these flaws will matter to the throngs of little kids who have made the previous Despicable Me movies (and the superior Minions spin-off) into giant global hits."[43]

Sandy Schaefer for Screen Rant gives the film a three stars out of five saying "Despicable Me 3 offers enough in the way of zany, irreverent entertainment (with a dose of heart) to please steadfast fans of the franchise."[44] Jordan Mintzer for The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review saying "This rather clever, breakneck-paced cartoon gives fans exactly what they want: Like the new nemesis voiced by Trey Parker, it shoots multiple machine-gun bursts of bubblegum at the audience, asking them to chew and enjoy"[45] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film three stars out of four, saying "Pierre Coffin (who voices the Minions) and co-director Kyle Balda keep the plot spinning merrily. Pharrell Williams contributes five new songs to the mix, including the hummable "There's Something Special." It's no mystery why Illumination's franchise is still something special after three go-rounds—the box-office gross is a whopping $1.5 billion and counting."[46] Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a 'B' grade, saying "What shines through is the visual wit and innate sweetness of the storytelling, and Carell's cackling, cueball-skulled misanthrope a (mostly) reformed scoundrel who can still have his cake, and arsenic too."[47]

The Minions' nonsense pastiche of the "Major-General's Song" was termed "amusing" (in an otherwise negative review)[48] and "the film’s finest moment";[49] it was uploaded to YouTube by Illumination as a singalong challenge and had garnered more than 19 million views as of 2023.[50]

Accolades

Accolades received by Despicable Me 3
Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
American Cinema Editors Awards January 26, 2018 Best Edited Animated Feature Film Claire Dodgson Nominated [51]
[52]
Annie Awards February 3, 2018 Best Animated Feature Despicable Me 3 Nominated [53]
Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Production Bruno Chauffard, Frank Baradat, Nicolas Brack, and Milo Riccarand Nominated
Outstanding Achievement for Character Design in a Feature Production Eric Guillon Nominated
Art Directors Guild Awards January 27, 2018 Excellence in Production Design for an Animated Film Olivier Adam Nominated [54]
Cinema Audio Society Awards February 24, 2018 Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Motion Picture – Animated Carlos Sotolongo, Randy Thom, Tim Nielson, Brandon Proctor, Greg Hayes, and Scott Curtis Nominated [55]
Critics' Choice Movie Awards January 11, 2018 Best Animated Film Despicable Me 3 Nominated [56]
Golden Reel Awards February 18, 2018 Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR for Animated Feature Film Dennis Leonard, Tim Nielsen, Matthew Hartman, Mac Smith, Andre J.H. Zweers, Christopher Flick, Richard Gould, John Roesch, Shelley Roden, and Slamm Andrews Nominated [57]
Golden Trailer Awards June 6, 2017 Best Animation/Family "Brothers" (Motive Creative) Nominated [58]
[59]
Best Animation/Family Poster "Oh Brother Poster" (Lindeman & Associates) Nominated
May 31, 2018 Best Animation/Family "Mojo" (Workshop Creative) Nominated [60]
[61]
Best Animation/Family TV Spot "Evil Mastermind" (Workshop Creative) Nominated
Hollywood Music in Media Awards November 17, 2017 Best Original Song in an Animated Film Pharrell Williams for "There's Something Special" Nominated [62]
Houston Film Critics Society Awards January 6, 2018 Best Animated Film Despicable Me 3 Nominated [63]
[64]
Movieguide Awards February 2, 2018 Best Movies for Families Despicable Me 3 Nominated [65]
[66]
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards March 24, 2018 Favorite Animated Movie Despicable Me 3 Nominated [67]
Producers Guild of America Awards January 20, 2018 Best Animated Motion Picture Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy Nominated [68]
Saturn Awards June 27, 2018 Best Animated Film Despicable Me 3 Nominated [69]
[70]
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards December 17, 2017 Best Animated Film Despicable Me 3 Nominated [71]
Visual Effects Society Awards February 13, 2018 Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature Pierre Coffin, Chris Meledandri, Kyle Balda, and Eric Guillon Nominated [72]
Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Eric Guillon, Bruno Dequier, Julien Soret, and Benjamin Fournet for "Bratt" Nominated
Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Axelle De Cooman, Pierre Lopes, Milo Riccarand, and Nicolas Brack for "Hollywood Destruction" Nominated
Outstanding Model in a Photoreal or Animated Project Eric Guillon, Francois-Xavier Lepeintre, Guillaume Boudeville, and Pierre Lopes for "Dru's Car" Nominated
Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature Bruno Chauffard, Frank Baradat, Milo Riccarand, and Nicolas Brack Nominated
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards December 8, 2017 Best Animated Feature Despicable Me 3 Nominated [71]

Sequel

Main article: Despicable Me 4

Despicable Me 3's success resulted in the development of a sequel.[73] Despicable Me 4 was released in 2024, after a long production involving a perfectly balanced story as Minions: The Rise of Gru was delayed in 2022.[74][75] It polarized critics, and was a box office success.[76]

Notes

  1. ^ Carbonite, a fictional substance from The Empire Strikes Back (1980), is referenced in the film.[5]
  2. ^ Attributed to multiple references:[29][30][31][32]

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