Despicable Me 3: sickly but fun

The Despicable Me franchise’s third outing (fourth if we are to count the prequel) sees the return of prickly reformed super-villain Gru (Steve Carell) and his army of Minions, bleating sentient kernels of Golden Nuggets cereal who wear goggles and, inexplicably, dungarees. What’s new are his long-lost twin brother Dru (also Carell), a shiny-haired billionaire with a palatial, pig-themed mansion modelled after the Sistine Chapel, and Balthazar Bratt (South Park creator Trey Parker), a prankish washed-up kids’ TV star who still sports the mullet and violet shell suit from his 1980s heyday. It’s all a bit sickly, but there are some fun set pieces involving little Agnes’s earnest search for a unicorn, “heist music” (Michael Jackson’s Bad) and some super-sticky, self-inflating bubblegum.