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Minions: The Rise of Gru

2022

Kyle Balda, Brad Ableson ...

Animation, Voice: Steve Carell, Pierre Coffin, Alan Arkin ...

5.8

4,762

Animation. Comedy. Adventure The untold story of one 12-year-old's dream to become the world's greatest supervillain.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Olly Richards Empire	"Plot has never been a particular strong point of these movies (...) This instalment is barely distinguishable from any of the others, but it's easy to be won over by its nutty joy and enthusiasm (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Thomas Floyd The Washington Post	"A perfectly painless romp that should enthrall kids, entertain adults and keep Minion cosplayers employed for many a birthday party to come (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Scott Mendelson Forbes	"It’s visually creative, occasionally funny and kid-targeted for sure. But even my kids argued that it needed less Gru and more Minions."	NEU
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"'Minions: The Rise of Gru' gives fans more of what they’ve come to expect, mainly Gru acting evilly, the Minions acting stupidly, and enough clever gags"	POS
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"There’s very little that’s new in 'The Rise Of Gru' (...) But the familiar silliness of the Minions is essential to their appeal."	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The plot is perfunctory and frankly this is a franchise now running on the thinnest of fumes (...) Although the character of Gru is mildly funny, the minions are unfunny without him (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Rafael Motamayor SlashFilm	"[It] will not usher in a new era of animation, nor change the way we treat prequels. What it will do is entertain kids with more Minions shenanigans, fart jokes, and references to other characters in the franchise"	NEU
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Six months into 2022, it’s the funniest film Hollywood has produced thus far. Audiences know what to expect, and Illumination delivers, offering another feel-good dose of bad behavior."	POS
United States	Brian Lowry CNN	"Long on silliness and songs, and short on plot (...) 'The Rise of Gru' relies on how visually pleasing and malleable its title characters are"	NEU
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"A brilliant, breakneck throwback to Looney Tunes (...) The 'origin story' for criminal mastermind Gru (and his yellow helpers) is by far the series’ punchiest entry yet (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Canada	Rachel Labonte Screen Rant	"What audiences are left with is a slick, fast-paced burst of energy and color. That isn't a bad thing, just as long as one hasn't grown too tired of the ['Minions']' shtick at this point (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Carlos Aguilar The Wrap	"There's a real crisis of imagination in studio animated features, and the 'Minions' are the prime example of an uninspired property that exists merely to churn out mindless content"	NEG
United States	Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"Short on plot, long on silliness, the return of the little yellow troublemakers is a fun but fleeting helium high (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Todd Gilchrist AV Club	"Kyle Balda redeems the best part of the franchise he helped create by wisely giving Gru a back seat to the most fun you’ll see this side of Wile E. Coyote’s Acme catalog"	POS
United States	Siddhant Adlakha IGN	"It wastes its fun ideas and comedic setups in favor of disconnected slapstick gags (...) 'Minions: The Rise of Gru' doesn't live up to 'Despicable Me', let alone other popular animated films"	NEU
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"It's a brand of comedy that's appealing to everyone, regardless of age (...) If you can't laugh at a bunch of yellow ovals clad in denim singing Simon & Garfunkel's 'Cecilia', what's wrong with you? (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Deadline	"This sequel serves up reasonable amusement for roughly the first hour, only to rather overstay its welcome thereafter. All the same, it will keep kids tolerably amused"	NEU
United States	Katie Walsh Los Angeles Times	"87 minutes of pure chaos, a hallucinatory, cacophonous fever dream of nonsensical subplots and Minion gibberish (...) Blessedly short"	NEG
United States	Kate Erbland IndieWire	"'Minions: The Rise of Gru' sort of succeeds (...) If this franchise wants to survive, the next entry will have to take on a much tougher mission: stay silly, but get a whole lot smarter"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers ABC News	"Here's the movie that tells you how Gru and the Minions became the life of a party you never want to end"	POS
United States	Odie Henderson rogerebert.com	"Even if you can’t stand the Minions, you might find this one tolerable. If nothing else, everything gets tied up neatly in a bow thereby making any further films unnecessary (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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