![]() So too does the former leader of the group, Wild Knuckles (Alan Arkin), an aging hippie who was the one who found the zodiac stone in the first place.Īlas, the Minions have lost the zodiac stone along the way because one of them traded it for a pet rock he happened to fall in love with. Henson) and featuring such evocatively named members as Jean Clawed (Jean-Claude Van Damme), Nun-Chuck (Lucy Lawless), and Svengeance (Dolph Lundgren), comes after Gru. (“Evil is for adults who steal powerful stones and wreak havoc, not for tubby little punks who should be at school learning, taking a recess, sucking their thumbs!”) So the Vicious 6, led by the sassy Belle Bottom (Taraji P. The setup, too nonsensical to describe in much detail, involves the 11 ¾-year-old Gru stealing the so-called zodiac stone from the Vicious 6, the league of villains that has rejected his membership. If only the mayhem itself were a bit more inspired. But, really, the movie is just an excuse for nutty Minion mayhem, and it knows it. Yes, it does ostensibly tell the story of how a very young Gru (still voiced by Steve Carell), the supervillain-in-name-only hero of the Despicable Me series, became an honest-to-goodness baddie. The film, directed by Kyle Balda, doesn’t bog down in plot or narrative coherence or world-building despite that portentous title. So the best thing I can say about Minions: The Rise of Gru is that it understands this fundamental truth. Adults enjoy the Minions (well, those of us adults who do enjoy the Minions, at any rate) because the land of reason is a prison, and we’ll take any escape from it we can, however brief or vicarious. Kids enjoy the Minions because for them, the land of reason is still a foreign place. The murmuring polyglot gibberish of Minionspeak and the baroque incompetence of these happy yellow homunculi promise a reprieve from a world of logic and order. The Minions may be for kids, but something about them speaks to those of us with a bit more mileage, too. Minions: The Rise of Gru Photo: Illumination Entertainment/Universal Pictures
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