Despicable Me 3 review: The laughs keep coming but the movie lacks emotion

The characters work better as a team than as a bunch of disparate elements

The standout sequences of the third instalment in the Despicable Me franchise feature the super-villain called Balthazar Bratt (voiced by South Park co-creator Trey Parker) who is a disgruntled star of a cancelled television show from the 1980s. His fashion sense has been stuck in that decade, with shoulder pads and spiked hair, and the dance moves he busts out as through heists and battles are straight out of a cheesy music video.

After reuniting Lucy (Kristen Wiig), Gru (Steve Carell), the kids and the Minions at the end of the last movie, Despicable Me 3 splits them up. Lucy tries