2022 · animation · comedy · sci-fi
Minions: The Rise of Gru
Directed by Kyle Balda1h 27m2022
A fanboy of a supervillain supergroup known as the Vicious 6, Gru hatches a plan to become evil enough to join them, with the backup of his followers, the Minions.
Our read: Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · comedy · sci-fi entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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How Minions feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want loud, silly Minions chaos with zero narrative demands tonight.”
Skip it tonight — Minion squealing in the trailer already drains your patience completely.
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