In the middle of a chase sequence, their rotundity allows them to simply roll down a crowded sloping road, in a moment that would have done the old Looney Tunes masters proud.

The Minions have never looked this good, this sprightly or this spectacularly kinetic ever before. There are other amusing sideshows, like Hong Kong cinema legend Michelle Yeoh playing a martial arts instructor and acupuncturist who teaches kung fu to the three main Minions-their training montage sequence is pure gold and perhaps the clearest reflection of the debt the creators owe to The Three Stooges.īut really, the main event here is the animation. The crux of the story is about how the Minions are reunited with their ‘mini-Boss’ (what they call Gru) and how Gru learns some quintessential lessons in super-villainy from Wild Knuckles the latter is just one of the many ways in which this film is inspired by The Karate Kid. This puts him in the supervillains’ crosshair (they kidnap Gru) and thanks to some classic Minions misadventures, in cahoots with the exiled Wild Knuckles himself. Predictably, the interview doesn’t go very well for Gru and in retaliation, he steals an amulet that the Vicious Six are planning to use on the Chinese New Year’s Eve to take over the world. This first encounter between our heroes is very entertaining and unabashed fan service. This is also where Gru meets the store’s assistant, Doctor Nefario (Russell Brand), who we know is destined to become Gru’s future chief scientist and key ally. In a characteristically boisterous first act, we see Gru interviewing for the vacancy thus opened up at The Vicious Six, whose secret headquarters are a record store called, appropriately enough ‘Criminal Records’. A Haunting In Venice movie review: Kenneth Branagh's murder mystery doesn't dazzle enough That ’70s Show actor Danny Masterson gets 30 years to life in prison for rapes of 2 women

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