Minions back for more mayhem
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The little yellow creatures are back in action! After the success of 'Despicable Me' and 'Despicable Me 2', along with their own theme-park ride, the minions have no doubt become the lovable face of the franchise. Now, it's time to tell their story with the new self-titled movie, 'Minions', which goes back in the past to show their origins.
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After the success of 'Despicable Me' and 'Despicable Me 2', along with their own theme-park ride, the minions have no doubt become the lovable face of the franchise. |
Much like the Minions' favorite fruit, everything was yellow on the yellow carpet at the Los Angeles premiere. From the big minion balloon overlooking the crowd to nearly each outfit on the carpet, there was an obvious color scheme. The three main minions in the movie, Bob, Kevin, and Stuart made an appearance, tottering out in their bright blue overalls and dancing along.
'Minions', which is a prequel to the 'Despicable Me' franchise, follows how the minions have been around since the beginning of time, meant to serve the nastiest villains they can find. After encounters with some of the world's most notorious leaders, including Napoleon and Dracula, the main three decide to travel to Villain-Con, a special convention meant entirely for super-villains.
Allison Janney plays Madge Nelson, a groupie who gives a ride to the minions on their way to Villain-Con.
"She's very instrumental. She and her husband, played by Michael Keaton, are instrumental in getting the minions to where they want to go, where they need to go, to find their next evil master," she said.
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After the success of 'Despicable Me' and 'Despicable Me 2', along with their own theme-park ride, the minions have no doubt become the lovable face of the franchise. |
Once they reach their destination, the minions feel entranced by a villain who exudes pure rock-star status among the attendees. She's Scarlet Overkill, voiced by the ever-charming Sandra Bullock, and she orders the minions to help her capture the crown from the Queen of England.
"I like that she was a spoiled brat; she was stuck in an eight-year-old girl's mentality who'd never been given the approval or attention that she needed. She's taken that into her adult years, but I also like that she has no fear to be somebody that she wants to be in a time when women are not really, weren't really supported and appreciated that way. So the fact that they wove that little storyline into things, is really, I think, very exceptional," she said
Although Scarlet is a very different villain from Gru, the one that the minions serve in the two Despicable Me installments, producer Chris Renaud was quick to explain the elements from the previous films that the team had hoped to preserve in this prequel.
"Well, I think the first question we had to answer was, where did they come from? And we had a variety of answers because for us, we sort of created them as we made Despicable Me, and we never really knew where they came from. And so we always had fans asking, where did they come from? So this gave us our opportunity to answer that question. And we felt like the best answer was that they'd been around forever and we see them through time. Because who doesn't want to see a minion work for T-Rex and Napoleon? So I would say that was what really got it started. In addition to wanting to expand on the world of villains, beyond Gru, and that was also the idea with the Villain-Con where we see a lot of villains, much like a Comic-Con. So those couple of ideas were what really got us going," he said.
Making an animation film with a nonsensical language, Illumination Entertainment had to invent more gibberish for the minions. The director Pierre Coffin and co-director Kyle Balda shared the fun story about creating the new language called Minionese.
"We made all these versions for international, for France, Germany, just on those couple of words and we asked China to help us out because I couldn't make them," he said.
Already beloved by all ages, these happy, yellow minions will be brightening up movie theaters and the summer box office. As they spin off into their own tale and go bananas, Minions will be sure to even more deeply establish the recognizable creatures' foothold in pop culture.
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