During a fight sequence, Belle Bottom uses her gold chain to lasso and catch the minions, which subsequently breaks. She had taken it off her waist, but in the next shot it is shown wrapped back around her, reformed.
When Otto gives Gru the Zodiac Stone, the necklace is around his neck. A split second later, Otto holds the necklace in his hand, ready to give the stone to Gru.
The fuzzy dice hanging from the Corvette rear view mirror showed the 3 and 4 at the same time. Which is impossible since they are opposite of each other.
Unless it is not a real dice.
Unless it is not a real dice.
Based on the clothing and hair styles, this movie takes place in the mid 70's however when the Minions were being trained in Kung Fu they were dancing to Funkytown by Lipps Inc., released in March 1980. However, this is obviously played for laughs.
When Gru leaves to find the stone, Kevin puts his hand on the inside of the window and it wipes away the dew. This is not possible as the dew is in the outside of the window.
However, condensation is on the inside of the window.
However, condensation is on the inside of the window.
The Minions recite the greeting from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) a year before it was released. Within the story, they are spontaneously composing the tune themselves.
When Wild Knuckles fakes a heart attack in the bank, the doctors shock him with a defibrillator. This is incorrect, as doctors would first check for a pulse before using an AED.
Correction: First, this is played for laughs. Second, this is not an AED but a manual defibrillator (A stands for automatic). Third, a paramedic (doctors don't usually respond to first aid situations as quickly) would assess the level of consciousness and then the breathing, not the pulse, before deciding on shocking a patient.
Correction: First, this is played for laughs. Second, this is not an AED but a manual defibrillator (A stands for automatic). Third, a paramedic (doctors don't usually respond to first aid situations as quickly) would assess the level of consciousness and then the breathing, not the pulse, before deciding on shocking a patient.
In the Bank of Evil, Vector's father shows us the same photo that was on his desk in Despicable Me (2010). This would put Vector's age at least the same as Gru's. In the first film, young Gru watches the moon landing. In this film he's supposed to be 11 years old. Set in 1976, that would make young Gru 4 years old in 1969.
Gru and the Minions see Jaws (1975) at an auditorium with stadium seating, which was not available in movie theaters until 1995.
Several vans in the movie used the AVL, Viscous 6, and the civilians appear to be 1979 Dodge Vans.
Gru puts Blue painters tape in his tool bag. Blue painters tape was not invented until 1988.
The movie is set in the 70's, but the 'Pet Rock' kid's bedroom includes a modern "double-kick" style of skateboard, which wasn't invented til the 90's.
When the Uncle and Otto were going "up the coast " on the motorcycle the ocean was on the right. It should have been on the left. They also cross the Golden Gate Bridge from North to South.
It's unknown if the AVL found out that Wild Knuckles faked his death. It's also unknown if the other people found out about his fake death too.
When Gru meets Dr Nefario at the record store he doesn't recognize him. However, Gru saw him at the Villain Con in Minions (2015) and presumably also bought the freeze ray gun from him.
The symbols on the inner edge of the Zodiac Stone are meant to be the Bagua or Eight Trigrams. However the ones seen are numbers 1, 5, 2, 6, 8, 2, 7 and 3; the fourth is missing and the second is repeated.