DESPICABLE ME 3

DESPICABLE ME 3. Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin, directors; Eric Guillon, co-director. Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio, script. USA: Illumination Entertainment, Universal Pictures presents (production) / Universal Pictures (US distribution), 2017. See IMDb for details of distribution.¶

Animation suitable for children with many high-tech weapons lethal in appearance but unused for lethal effect; of mild interest: an electric guitar weapon used by the Balthazar Bratt, the villain, but capturable by others. Of greater interest are devices associated with the large and small. One large item is a non-lethal "killer" robot in the shape of Balthazar Bratt and operated from the inside by Bratt, accompanied by "Clive the Robot," his small robot companion: cf. and contrast the fighting robots in such works as ROBOT JOX and Battletech and the motif of human body as committee-operated machine in INSIDE OUT and the works cited there. On the level of the small, note that the Minions are balanced by swarms of action figures of Bratt: note motif of the swarm (cf. and strongly contrast "The Upside-Down Evolution") and the Minions' inventions, especially a flying machine used to escape prison and stressing everyday objects, with an emphasis on toilets.

RDE. Initial Compiler, 31July17