Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticEvery entry in the “Despicable Me” franchise is technically a Minions movie, since one way or another, the adorable yellow buggers manage to steal the show.
But the fun thing about 2015’s standalone prequel was just that: It allowed the Minions to stand alone, pairing them with someone other than Gru for a change.Gru’s great, but his bad-guy-gone-soft shtick is starting to get old.
Now, in “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” we get to see him young: At the mischievous age of 11, he’s already sporting the hunchback and hook nose, and dreaming of world domination.
On career day at school, the enfant terrible (still voiced by Steve Carell, delivering his Eastern Euro accent at a slightly higher little-kid register) announces, “I want to be a super-villain!” And not just any super-villain.
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