Minion madness round 3
MORE SPIES, MORE LAUGHS AND MORE VILLAINS Gru’s brother is seemingly better than him in every way, but he has a secret ...
After he is fired from the Anti-Villain League for failing to take down the latest bad guy to threaten humanity, Gru finds himself in the midst of a major identity crisis. But when a mysterious stranger shows up to inform Gru that he has a longlost twin brother – a brother who desperately wishes to follow in his twin’s despicable footsteps – one former super-villain will rediscover just how good it feels to be bad.
Steve Carell (The Big Short, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) not only reprises his role as Gru, but also takes on a second part – that of Dru, Gru’s long-lost twin. Kristen Wigg (Bridesmaids, The Martian) returns as super-spy Lucy, while Emmy, Tony and Grammy Awardwinner Trey Parker (South Park, The Book of Mormon) voices new villain Balthazar Bratt, a former child star who has become obsessed with the evil TV character he played in the ’80s. Gru’s most formidable and comedic nemesis to date, Bratt, is out to take down Hollywood … and anyone who stands in his way.
In Despicable Me 2, Gru was recruited by the Anti-Villain League (AVL) to put his skills as a former villain to use and brought the worst of the worst to justice. Never thinking romance was in the cards, Gru wound up falling hard for his super-spy partner, Lucy. To the delight of his daughters – who had always wanted a mom – he ultimately asked Lucy to marry him.
In Minions (which was released in 2015 but is a prequel to the Despicable Me franchise), we learned the origins of the lovable, yellow creatures and saw how Kevin, Stuart and Bob’s comedically misguided quest for an evil leader ultimately led them to team up with a young Gru.
This summer, in Despicable Me 3, Gru and his new wife, Lucy, are unable to take down the latest villain to threaten humanity – an ’80s-fixated former child TV star named Balthazar Bratt who was abruptly fired in that decade and is now obsessed with revenge on Hollywood. As a result, they are humiliated and fired by the new boss of the AVL.
The Minions hope Gru will use this opportunity to return to a life of crime, but when Gru makes it clear that he’s retired from villainy, the Minions quit and head out on their own. Minion Mel, who led the strike against Gru, emerges as their new leader. Meanwhile, Jerry and Dave – the two Minions who were accidentally absent during the strike – stay with Gru and the family throughout the story.
After being fired, Gru feels like a failure and struggles to figure out his next move. Just when it seems he has hit rock bottom, a stranger appears, informing Gru that his estranged father has died … and that he has a long-lost twin brother named Dru who would very much like to meet him.
Shocked to learn this, Gru confronts his mother, who confesses that she did, in fact, have twins. Shortly after the boys were born, she divorced Gru’s father and they promised never to speak to each other again, each parent taking one child as they parted ways. She relishes informing Gru that she got second pick. Initially excited about the prospect of having a brother, Gru takes Lucy and the girls to his father’s homeland of Freedonia to meet his twin … only to find that Dru is seemingly better than him in every way. While Gru is bald, misanthropic and newly unemployed, Dru has a gorgeous, full head of hair, is effortlessly charming and has inherited their father’s fortune and pig farm.
Gru is overwhelmed by a feeling of inferiority, but it isn’t long before Dru reveals he has a secret desire: to follow in their father’s footsteps and become a worldclass villain. Dru confesses that since his dad never believed in him, he lacks basic villain training and needs Gru’s help to achieve his dream and carry on their family legacy.
A brother who wishes to follow in his twin’s despicable footsteps