The jealousy is misplaced. Although he’s obsessed with following in his brother’s once-villainous footsteps, Dru basically turns out to be a stupider, whinier version of Gru, testing the audience’s patience and the upper limits of Carell’s vocal register in equal measure. The movie extracts some wit from the image of the brothers in their black and white suits, a yin-and-yang flourish that brings “Spy vs. Spy” to the mind, but that kind of quiet deftness is otherwise beyond this movie’s abilities. (If you didn’t notice, for example, that Dru’s ceiling is painted to resemble the Sistine Chapel but with pigs, rest assured that someone will pipe up, “It’s like the Sistine Chapel but with pigs!”) Some movies are so haphazard that they seem to have been created by throwing stuff at a wall and using whatever sticks. The “Despicable Me” films represent an even more singular achievement: They seem to have been cobbled together from the things that don’t stick. Far from achieving the kind of inspired comic lunacy that the better Pixar and DreamWorks titles sometimes manage, “Despicable Me 3” seems deliberate in its disjointedness, its sloppiness willfully achieved. And also, somehow, utterly formulaic. In addition to the blah spectacle of Gru and Dru plowing through the streets in a massive gadget-laden vehicle or launching a secret raid on Bratt’s hideaway, we will be treated to the sort of remedial parenting lessons that bring old “Full House” reruns to mind. The most insulting of these is leveled at Lucy, whose first experience as a stepmother involves sorting out some boy trouble with Margo and, of course, keeping a safe distance from the action while the men go off and play. I realize I’ve barely mentioned the Minions, which is fitting given that they seem more or less like an afterthought. After going from scene-stealing sideshow to main attraction in their 2015 stand-alone feature (also directed by Coffin and Balda), perhaps these chattering overgrown corn kernels felt the need for some downtime. Tired of Gru’s identity crisis and craving the comforts of old-fashioned villainy, the Minions resign in protest and spend much of the movie off by themselves, utterly oblivious to their former master and his latest round of imbecilic misadventures. You may miss them a bit, but you’ll envy them more. Please share your feedback in the comment box and your concerns, if any :) .................. For Subscribing Our Channel; Click Here: . ****** .