{"id":873,"date":"2017-12-19T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T22:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=873"},"modified":"2021-05-18T12:32:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T18:32:34","slug":"movie-despicable-me-3-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/19\/movie-despicable-me-3-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Despicable Me 3 (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/8\/80\/Despicable_Me_3_theatrical_release_poster.jpg\/220px-Despicable_Me_3_theatrical_release_poster.jpg\" alt=\"Despicable Me 3\" width=\"220\" height=\"351\">Despicable Me 3<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2017<br \/>\nRating: PG<br \/>\nLength: 90 minutes \/ 1.50 hours<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I wonder how this franchise became so popular. Perhaps this perception is due to the oversaturation of the annoying little \u201cMinions\u201d that seem to pervade every corner of social media. And yet, when I go to see a movie like this, I am soon reminded that there are relatable and underappreciated storylines and plot points contained within this silliness. I have rarely seen a better \u201cadoption\u201d storyline than the one presented in <em>Despicable Me<\/em> (2010). Of course, <em>Despicable Me 2<\/em> (2013) took the natural next step and provided a \u201csingle dad looking for a wife\u201d storyline that also is rarely seen in animation.<\/p>\n<p>With <em>Despicable Me 3<\/em> (2017), the franchise transitions more into a series of vignettes better suited for a television show than a feature-length film. It was a little hard to tell which storyline was the main one for the film, even if they were all intertwined in some way. From the \u201clong lost brother\u201d character arc to the \u201cwife trying to gain acceptance of step-children\u201d sub-plot, there almost wasn\u2019t enough time to focus on the Minions\u2019 mutiny or the campy 1980\u2019s-inspired villain. Each of the segments almost felt episodic, as if they would work better as a 15-minute segment in a 30-minute children\u2019s show.<\/p>\n<p>All this being said, there were moments I did enjoy in this movie. From the occasional \u201cadult-oriented\u201d Minion jokes (like \u201cThe Major General\u2019s Song\u201d and a <em>Die Hard<\/em> (1988) quote) to the touching moments of true parenting (again, a rare treat), the most entertaining aspect of the film was the nostalgia-inducing antics of Balthazar Bratt (Trey Parker). However, because I mostly know Tray Parker from his work on \u201cSouth Park,\u201d I couldn\u2019t separate his voice from the numerous episodes of this raunchy and politically incorrect television show (which is probably, again, something for the adults in the audience).<\/p>\n<p>A franchise on the verge of trying to do too much, I give <em>Despicable Me 3<\/em> 3.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\"><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\"><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\"><\/strong><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despicable Me 3 Year: 2017 Rating: PG Length: 90 minutes \/ 1.50 hours Sometimes I wonder how this franchise became so popular. Perhaps this perception is due to the oversaturation of the annoying little \u201cMinions\u201d that seem to pervade every corner of social media. And yet, when I go to see a movie like this, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1199,2],"tags":[349,971,972,969,970,13,8,973],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-0-stars","category-animated","category-movie","tag-349","tag-despicable-me","tag-despicable-me-2","tag-despicable-me-3","tag-minions","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-south-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2663,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}