Despicable Me 3 2017 by AverageMansReviews

Despicable Me 3 2017 by AverageMansReviews

Review Time: my opinions about this instalment are extremely mixed [minus the fact I missed about two minutes at the beginning of the film, because I was finding my space.] I never felt truly comfortable with this film and throughout this review you will see why.

Animation: yes this is colourful and engaging from beginning to end; the animation itself looks up-to-date as it relates to the movements, characters [individual elements,] landscapes throughout the project and so on and so forth. But having said that the animation isn't groundbreaking or at least in the category of standout title if that makes sense, but it has been given the tools to do its job with ease.

Storyline: on reflection, this is where I think this project heavily falls down [without giving too much away,] the storyline has been sectioned off into too many elements, in a nutshell this project uses a format like this; Gru and Dru, Minions, Lucy Wilde and the girls and Balthazar Bratt. Now just for the record at one time or another these storyline elements do indeed overlap one another or sometimes they can feel so far away from one another that even when we get back into a storyline that we haven't seen for a short amount of time or longer, it just needs some time to settle down again and not forgetting there are some elements to this storyline that I would consider to be highly predictable.

Comedy level: this is also a very mixed bag of tedious elements and funny, engaging bits and pieces. How can I put this; there are some occasions in this title, where it just feels like they are trying too hard on some of the comedy elements, instead of gently building up the sequence, they are just putting a comedy reference here or there, because maybe it has been a short amount of time since the last comedy reference.

Now let us focus on the good elements of the comedy level: in a nutshell anything to do with Balthazar Bratt voiced by Trey Parker this character is funny and mostly everything he does is over-the-top, in fact his personality including voice are that well rounded, that I would feel comfortable suggesting this character should get his own film title and use him as the lead role, that is how entertaining this character is.

This film receives: 50% approval, I couldn't really justify going any higher or any lower. Because this title does have potential and it does show elements of what it can do, but then I have to factor in where this project falls down and to be kind this film does go up, up, down, down, up, down and up as it relates to its negative or positive elements.