Director: Pierre Coffin, Patrick Delage

Cast: Pierre Coffin, Trey Parker, Jesse Eisenberg

Synopsis:

Follows the Minions in 1920s Hollywood as they search for frightening creatures for their monster movie, partner with a green creature, and must save the planet after unleashing monsters.

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Why do we love (or hate) the Minions? Simply put, they’re everywhere: Illumination Studios’ mascots have existed in the public consciousness for 16 years at this point, across six (now seven) feature films, plastered on every piece of merchandise Universal Studios can muster and, for a while there, flooding our Facebook feeds with droll memes your problematic aunt would plaster all over her page.

Their ubiquity, and their stupidity, might aggravate those seeking higher entertainment than a group of babbling, pill-shaped henchmen who blow raspberries and hit each other with hammers. But there’s a bigger, more elemental reason these little guys have endured and profited (to the tune of nearly $6 billion over the previous six films), spinning off from their breakout status in the “Despicable Me” films to an honest-to-goodness phenomenon in their own right: they’re but the latest iteration of slapstick comedy stars that hearken back to the earliest days of the art form.

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