Happy Friday! With the new Minions Mini film, “Competition” …. 😉 Have a great weekend everyone.
Minions? What?
If you’ve never heard of them… you probably should watch the film they first appeared in right now: Despicable Me. It’s about an evil villain, Gru (voiced by Steve Carrell), whose latest plan for world domination gets derailed by a far younger and obnoxious villain upstart. He ends up having to adopt three little girls to steal his tech back, and in the meantime, his priorities (predictably?) change. The real hero of the film are the Minions, Gru’s strange, podlike henchmen who do his bidding and help run his underground secret laboratory. Despicable Me has since then spawned a second film and a standalone Minions film, both of which had been hugely funny, but we have a special place in our hearts for the very first.
Distributed by Universal Pictures as its first offering from its new animation studio Illumination Entertainment, the first film earned mostly positive critic reviews, with Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes giving it a rating of 81%, based on 191 reviews. It grossed over $543 million worldwide, against a budget of $69 million. A third Despicable Me film is due to be out in 2017.