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After waiting two years for their return, Gru’s yellow army is back and they are exactly out you expect them to be

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The Despicable Review of Minions: The Rise of Gru

After waiting two years for their return, Gru's yellow army is back and they are exactly out you expect them to be

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Hugo Segal

It's easy to say at this rate that we're keeping a watchful eye on Mario and won't be missing out on the usual Minions hijinks. Gru and the gang had a solid run; we can only hope "Despicable Me 4" bookends that era.

Justin Monti

I have to say congratulations on getting an early screening of this movie. As someone you does enjoy the Despicable Me movies, and even though the Minions movie was decent, I might consider giving this film a watch when it hits digital. However, even as a fan of the franchise, I am incredibly concerned because I really don’t want to see this franchise be run into the ground similar to Ice Age or Hotel Transylvania, considering we are getting a Despicable Me 4 in 2024, I just hope it doesn’t come to that and after the fourth movie they end the franchise. Also at this point I am begging and pleading to Illumination to please not screw up the Mario movie and please let that film be good.

Kenneth Stoddard

Well I guess it not gonna change my mind about those yellow twinkies, which I call it, “Ha, I knew you’re gonna called since Devon called them out on your podcast!”. Anyways, considering that I have yet to see this film myself until tomorrow, just so I can avoid kids as possible during that busy 4th of July weekend, I’ll take your word for it. When it comes to the franchise, I don’t hate it as a whole. I did enjoy the first two films of Despicable Me, but when it come to the third installment and Minion’s spin-off, that when I noticed that it stared to dip down in terms of quality. For the 2015 Minion film, I hate it mainly because Minions can’t carry a whole feature film as they are underdeveloped plus it was never a good idea in giving a comic relief characters to begin given what happened with Planet Sheen and even Cars 2 where it feels more spin-off than a legit sequel. I could go on but I’ll save it for another time. For Despicable Me 3, while better than the spin-off, it is the weakest of the trilogy due to how the writing gotten worst to the point of having too many subplots despite some good moments like Trey Parker’s villain for example. From what I’m hearing, it sounds like it repeating the same mistakes of what Despicable Me 3 has went through: too many subplots with very little story and that downward with their recent films from the franchise and if they do this again of doing the same shtick again as they did with previous films and this, people will end up feel fed with this franchise like what Ice Age and Hotel Transylvania have went with the former still refuse to die. I’ll still see it tomorrow to see what my thoughts of this film as a whole but so far, I’m not hearing bright with this film. Also, I’ll give credit to Illumination of wanting to wait for this long until things are settled down with the pandemic so that kids can watch it safe. It similar to what Top Gun Maverick has gone through, wait until older audiences feel safe enough to watch movies on the big screen again.

Hunter O'Laughlin

While I confess I did enjoy the first Minions film as a guilty pleasure, even seeing the first trailer and the sneak peak during the Super Bowl LIV made me not as interested in checking this out. I’d rather see Lightyear than Minions: Rise of Gru. If I need my animated bad guys flick, I’ll just stick with The Bad Guys.