“Rise of Gru,” directed by franchise veteran Kyle Balda, supplies a brisk and breezy 88-minute Minion morsel to keep the pipsqueak masses sated before the next “Despicable Me” movie. It’s not a recipe for the greatest movie ever, necessarily, but a far worse sin, in this world of Minion domination, would be to skimp on screen time for the little guys. But the coming of age belongs less to Gru than his little army of sidekicks who once again steal the show as they establish their undying allegiance to “Mini Boss.” The outline of the film is a sequel to 2015 “Minions” and “Despicable Me” prequel for Gru (Steve Carell), who here is an 11 3/4-year-old aspiring supervillain. The Minions are one of the great second-banana success stories.Īnd the franchise’s latest installment, “Minions: Rise of Gru,” is smart enough not to reinvent the wheel - even if trying to do so might sound like the kind of job the Minions would love to get a crack at. They have swarmed the planet like that human mob in “World War Z,” spreading a happy cartoon plague that long ago became endemic. Now five films and 12 years into the “Despicable Me” series, the appeal of the bug-eyed, overalls-wearing, banana-yellow henchmen horde is overwhelming apparent. For a not small segment of the audience for “Minions: Rise of Gru,” only one thing really needs to be said.
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