Look Gru’s back! Our hair-challenged
hero faces ‘twin’ threats in Despicable
Me 3. Will he return to his evil ways?
ife was good for former
supervillain-turned-devoted
dad Felonius Gru at the
end of 2013’s blockbusting
Despicable Me 2. He’d defeated the
bad guy (the infamous El Macho), got
the girl (his beloved Lucy) and was
proving a more-than-able father to his
adorable adopted offspring: Margo,
Edith and Agnes. Heck, even his tiny
yellow lackeys, the Minions, were
behaving themselves (well, kind of!).
Unfortunately for our sardonic
antihero, this bubble of good fortune
well and truly bursts in Despicable
Me 3 and it’s all to do with the new
supervillain in town: Balthazar Bratt.
Bratt is a former 1980s TV child star
who just can’t let go of the decade
that style forgot. From his mullet
and tache to his gravity-defying
shoulder pads and Michael Jackson-
inspired fight moves, he’s officially
the least cool baddie of all time.
But Bratt doesn’t care, all he wants
is to be back in the limelight again.
To ensure this happens, he plots
to steal the world’s biggest diamond,
which is being kept on a heavily
guarded ocean liner...
Alarmed, the Anti Villain League tasks
agents Lucy and Gru (now going by
the name Grucy, much to Gru’s horror
– “I like it, but not a lot. I don’t like
it!”) with stopping him, but Bratt
proves a slippery customer and gets
away with the unfeasibly large gem.