I have no wish to see any more movies featuring the Minions but I'd make an exception for a crossover project in which they were pitted against the Brood for a fight to the death.

| Jul 14, 2017

Despicable Me 3's tender moments are often drowned out by everything else its filmmakers want to smash into its 90 or so minutes.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 6, 2017

Watching Agnes is like emptying five packets of Space Dust into your mouth: guaranteed to induce tingles.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 2, 2017

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 2, 2017

Despicable Me 3 is easily the least interesting film in the trilogy, the fact all involved are having such difficulty coming up with many original ideas speaking volumes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 30, 2017

Steve Carell doubles your fun in Despicable Me 3 - voicing feuding twin bros. Carell is the life of the party and the main reason this animated blast of slapstick silliness packs appeal beyond the PG crowd.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 30, 2017

It's pretty and sweet, but there's little inside.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 30, 2017

To call Despicable Me 3 desperate would be to ascribe too much effort and passion to the thing. Ice Age: Collision Course, now: There was a properly desperate sequel.

| Original Score: D | Jun 30, 2017

90 minutes of mostly uninspired vapidity that appears to be ticking the correct Despicable boxes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 30, 2017

Gru, Lucy, and the girls are back for Despicable Me 3, which uses '80s nostalgia for fun and musical action sequences. But the movie feels slighter than its predecessors.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 30, 2017

Think of it, in terms of quality, as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of the Despicable Me films.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 30, 2017

...Undeniably charming, although not especially ambitious in storytelling, animation or emotional stakes. But sometimes you just want a summer movie that'll make you laugh.

| Jun 30, 2017

By the midpoint, the movie, which is directed by three different people - franchise regular Pierre Coffin gets help from Éric Guillon and Kyle Balda - is dragging badly.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 30, 2017

"Despicable Me 3" has some laughs, but not enough to prop up what feels like a flagging franchise.

| Original Score: C | Jun 30, 2017

There are a mix of many ideas, none fully realized, so what the heck? Just toss 'em all in there, see what sticks.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 30, 2017

My son walked out of Despicable Me 3 declaring that he just had "the best day ever." That doesn't speak to quality but instead to how appealing the movie's elements are for audiences under the age of 10.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 30, 2017

The problem with making the title character into a happily married good guy is that he is not despicable any more. He is therefore much less interesting than the villain.

| Original Score: B | Jun 30, 2017

A middling offering at best, it's time to retire Agent Gru and let him get on with domesticity. Who knows what skeletons might turn up in his garden plot?

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 29, 2017

While the first movie was, as noted, at its core rather charming, for Despicable Me, the third time definitely isn't the charm.

| Jun 29, 2017

Here's some Despicable Me math: third movie plus Gru times two plus one new supervillain = not much of anything.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 29, 2017