As an additional incentive, Scarlet makes clear that if they fail, she will be slicing herself some filet minion. There, Scarlet and her doting husband, Herb Overkill (Jon Hamm), charge the minions with stealing Saint Edward’s Crown from Queen Elizabeth II (Jennifer Saunders). (In one of the movie’s better gags, 1968 Orlando is portrayed as essentially an empty swamp.) At Villain-Con, the minions meet and sign on with the world’s self-described greatest supervillain, Scarlet Overkill (Sandra Bullock), who whisks them off to London, where the central plot will unfold. The minions first arrive in New York, but while flipping channels on a department-store TV- The Saint, Bewitched, The Dating Game-they stumble across a secret channel announcing the upcoming Villain-Con convention to be held in Orlando. The year is by now 1968, which means that the Minions soundtrack will make amiable (if not terribly imaginative) use of the Rolling Stones, The Who, the Doors, the Beatles, The Spencer Davis Group, and the theme song from Hair. Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley Is Lurid, Violent, and Boring David Sims (All of the minions are voiced, as before, by director Pierre Coffin, in their distinctive pidgin mishmash of English, Spanish, French, Italian, and sheer gibberish.) So three members of the colony-Kevin, Stuart, and Bob-set out to find a suitably despicable master. The minions are like rogue planets lost in space, bereft of a star to orbit. So the minions retreat to an arctic cavern, where they build their own society in seclusion.īut something is still missing. Caveman, pharaoh, vampire, Napoleon-all are tried on for size as masters, but none quite fit. The minions graduate from fish groupies to dinosaur groupies, before taking an inevitable step backward with the arrival of human beings. A narrator (Geoffrey Rush) explains that while not all minions are created alike-some have one eye, some two some are taller, some rounder-“they all share the same goal: to serve the most despicable master they can find.”Ĭue history. But who’s that there, dangling off the tail fin of a particularly wicked-looking fish? Why it’s a minion, one of those little lemon Tic Tacs of servility who worked for the supervillain Gru in the prior films. Minions, the spinoff/prequel of Universal Pictures’ Despicable Me movies, begins, fittingly enough, at the very beginning: In a protean sea, single-celled creatures compete and evolve, predators and prey growing in tandem.
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