Minions: The Rise of Gru
A fanboy of a supervillain supergroup known as the Vicious 6, Gru hatches a plan to become evil enough to join them, with the backup of his followers, the Minions.
- Released: 2022-05-30
- Runtime: 87 minutes
- Genre: Action, Animation, Family
- Stars: Steve Carell, Pierre Coffin, Russell Brand, Alan Arkin, Taraji P. Henson, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lucy Lawless, Dolph Lundgren, Danny Trejo, Michelle Yeoh, Julie Andrews, RZA, Jacob Batalon, Will Arnett, Steve Coogan, Jimmy O. Yang, Kevin Michael Richardson, John DiMaggio, Michael Beattie, Colette Whitaker, Raymond S. Persi, Kyle Balda, Bob Bergen, Beau Billingslea, Cathy Cavadini, David Chen, Will Collyer, Meilee Condron, Antonio Raul Corbo, Debi Derryberry, Scarlett Estevez, Kellen Goff, Jake Green, Isa Hall, Ramone Hamilton, Aaron Hendry, Barbara Harris, JP Karliak, Evan Kishiyama, Sam Lavagnino, Dawnn Lewis, Amari McCoy, Levi Nunez, Benjamin Plessala, Alex Puccinelli, David J. Randolph, Carla Rempp, Nev Scharrel, James Sie, Mindy Sterling, Fred Tatasciore, Regina Taufen, Nisa Ward, Debra Wilson, Nora Wyman, Bastian Baker, Valentine Zhou, Asto Montcho, Frédérique Cantrel, Gad Elmaleh, Claudia Tagbo, Jonathan Cohen, Gérard Darmon, Hélène Babu, Christophe Rouzaud, Grégory Questel, Daniel Koenigsberg, Pierre Forest, Omar Sy, Dwayne Johnson
- Director: Kyle Balda, Joseph Kosinski, Kyle Balda
Comments
- cardsrock - 20 December 2022
Getting to the point of diminishing returns
While there are still a decent number of laughs and clever references, this franchise is starting to run out of gas. The first Minions movie and Despicable Me 3 were already showing some signs of franchise fatigue and Rise of Gru further exemplifies this. It's not the worst animated film out there, but it just isn't too outstanding.
The plot is fine and has some decent lessons. The voice cast is pretty stacked as well. However, they are all a bit buried in their weird characters. The 70s time period provides some fun entertainment, but it's all a bit surface level. The Rise of Gru is perfectly adequate, but that is a bit of a step down for this franchise.
