How are there so many devoted Minions stans? It’s bananas! (Sorry.)Ĭ’mon, I thought while reading these assessments. The overall tone is one of bafflement: This was an “ unusually large showing among teenagers for an animated movie,” The Hollywood Reporter observed. Variety interviewed Minions fans who dressed up in suits for screenings because of a TikTok trend, calling such #gentleminions “largely innocuous albeit startling.” The Washington Post deemed the costume fad “somewhat bizarre.” Theaters began banning well-outfitted viewers from showings, reportedly in response to fans who got too rowdy. Read: Minions: an amiable origin story in need of a worthwhile villainĪnd yet, the Minions’ success has been met with confusion-and maybe even a hint of panic. “They’re endearing and silly and can kind of get away with anything … a stroke of genius, certainly in terms of marketing.” Take it from Steve Carell, who plays Gru, the Minions’ boss: “They are the Three Stooges, the Marx Brothers,” he said in an interview.
And adults can enjoy the vocal performances of a stacked cast, including Alan Arkin, Julie Andrews, Michelle Yeoh, and Taraji P. Teenagers are nostalgic for them the Minions began their dominance 12 years ago, with the release of Despicable Me. Children can’t get enough of the Minions, which are essentially toddlers themselves, needy and nonsensical in their babbling but sweet and vulnerable. They’re agents of chaos, and their latest film, Minions: The Rise of Gru, just broke the box-office record for a debut over the Fourth of July weekend.īecause of course it did. They’ve had their images stitched onto every piece of merchandise possible- sanctioned or not-and probably make up the bulk of those memes your one relative won’t stop posting on Facebook. The banana-yellow, denim-clad, booger-shaped thingamabobs are so popular that they’ve overtaken the film franchise in which they originated. Minions! You know them, even if you don’t want to.
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