Two Grus are better than one? In the third film Gru finds out that he has a
twin brother called Dru. Funny though. "Grus" looks wrong. I have the feeling
that I should write the plural of proper names with an apostrophe, i.e. two
Gru's, but I searched online and found out that an apostrophe would be false.
I'll have to remember that. I love the English language and try to uphold it,
but this is a rare example where my feeling leans in the direction of
something that's wrong.
The two brothers look identical apart from Dru having a full head of hair. He
also has blond eyebrows. They don't look very similar in the picture above.
Maybe this one is better:
Or maybe not. Their radically different clothing hides their similarity.
The biggest difference between the two is attitude. Gru has now fully reformed
and has given up his life of crime. Dru has never been a criminal, but he
wants to be a criminal, so he's always pestering Gru for advice. It's advice
that Gru refuses to give. He's now a married man with three adopted daughters,
so he's settled down. He can't afford to be sent to prison for 50 years.
In my review of
"Despicable Me 2"
I included pictures of all three of Gru's daughters. This time I'll only show
a screenshot of Edith, because she's the cutest. Just look at that face!
Doesn't she melt your heart? Wouldn't she make you want to reform from a life
of crime as well?. Her age isn't stated in the film, but her older sister is
12 and her younger sister is six, so she's somewhere in the middle. I have
difficulties estimating the age of real children, so with cartoon children
it's impossible. I just know Edith is cute.
The film begins with Gru as a permanent member of the Anti Villain League
(AVL). In the previous film he was just assisting the AVL. His membership
doesn't last long. He's fired because he fails to catch the new master
villain, Balthazar Bratt, who's stolen the world's largest diamond. Gru wants
to redeem himself by retrieving the diamond, so he enlists the help of his
brother. Dru wants to become a criminal, so Gru deceives him. He just says he
wants to steal a diamond from someone, without telling him that he's stealing
the diamond from a thief to give it back.
The film has all the slapstick and wild humour of the previous films, but
something indefinable is missing. I can't say what it is. Maybe the problem is
that we don't see as much of the Minions as we did in the previous films.
That's just a Maybe. Early in the film they desert Gru because he refuses to
return to a life of crime after being fired from the AVL. Only his two most
loyal Minions, Dave and Jerry, remain with him. But evidently I'm in the
minority with my opinion. "Despicable Me 3" is the most successful film in the
franchise so far, and it's the fourth most successful animated film ever made.
"Lucy, please tell me what's wrong with this film".
Success Rate: + 10.9
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