If even one kid comes out of this movie wanting to see more movies with kung fu, killer nuns, and badass Black women, then that'd be enough. But where the film really shines is in how it takes Bruce Lee and Blaxploitation movies and wraps them around a Minions story. What it will do is entertain kids with more Minions shenanigans, a fair number of fart jokes, and references to other characters in the franchise. "Minions: The Rise of Gru" will not usher in a new era of animation, nor change the way we treat prequels. Coffin once again steals the show as the voice of all of the Minions, sputtering and giggling as they squash, stretch, and fart (of course) in response to the stimulus around them. The film’s celebrity voice cast members deliver their dialogue with uninspiring proficiency, although I’d pay good money to watch live video of Arkin cantankerously reading lines in the booth and wondering what he’d signed up for. Visually, the kinetic movie is occasionally inventive but disappointingly content to paint by numbers. Audiences know what to expect, and Illumination delivers, offering another feel-good dose of bad behavior.
Six months into 2022, it’s the funniest film Hollywood has produced thus far. But the MacGuffin plot is perfunctory and frankly this is a franchise now running on the thinnest of fumes.Īn unexpected treat, and by far the series' punchiest and most polished entry yet. There are one or two laughs, largely from characters’ names, and a witty and unexpected reference to the “Don’t tase me, bro” meme.
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