Despicable Me 3 Review: 6 Ups & 4 Downs

2. The Soundtrack Is Really, Really Lazy

This franchise has always made pretty on-the-nose musical choices both in the marketing and the movies themselves, and number three takes things to an even more egregious level.

Though the use of Michael Jackson's hit "Bad" is amusing to a point, it's also ludicrously lacking in subtlety, and basically just spells out exactly what's being shown on screen, as Trey Parker's 80s-styled villain Balthazar Bratt steals the world's most expensive diamond in the movie's opening scene.

From there the musical choices are essentially a jukebox of 80s hits anytime Bratt is onscreen, a gag which quickly wears thin and gives the movie an unsavoury similarity to last summer's Suicide Squad, which assaultively hurled songs at the viewer as a substitute for actual substance.