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What is Minions?
Minions are a species of tiny yellow henchmen; they look like unusually dressed Mike and Ike candies. They’re earnestly driven by the desire to serve an evil boss, though they often screw up because they’re selfish, easily distracted, and generally inept. They vary in height, but it’s safe to say they’re between 2 and 3 feet tall (though closer to 2). They communicate using a gibberish language that’s understandable to them and a few people who have longstanding relationships with them.
The cartoon characters called Minions, sufficiently popular to anchor two ostensibly discrete animated film franchises, are diminutive capsule-shaped yellow yammerers outfitted in goggles and overalls, whose bearing for the most part is simultaneously hyper and insouciant. While one of their number seems a relatively competent D.J., the remainder of this innumerable lot aren’t very adept, especially as henchminions. Kids love them. Parents, as far as one can see, tolerate them.
Minions are small and somewhat incomprehensible, troublesome but also innocent and fun-loving. They’re basically children already. Complete the look with Minion costumes for kids and you’ll have everything you need for a fun Halloween party. Or a birthday party, or a bapple party.
The Minions, the 2015 animated feature film, shows that they have existed since the beginning of life on Earth. Minions are biologically wired to seek out and serve the most terrible of villains; when they have no “boss” to serve, they become depressed and listless. They are also shown to have a degree of invulnerability, as Kevin, Stuart and Bob are able to survive a European torture chamber without any injuries, even playing with the torture devices. In the 2010 short film “Banana”, the Minions are revealed to have an almost uncontrollable craving for fruit, especially bananas.
What’s more, it’s difficult to pull out the same bromides for Minions that work for other types of animation — can you compare a Minion to the “madcap poetry of Buster Keaton” or the “zany pop imagery of Chuck Jones” when they’re such a unique comic invention (and multimillion-dollar megabrand)?
And that may be the reason kids like them, too. Kids recognize, in themselves, the silliness of the Minions, and they can love them and laugh at them simultaneously. Minions also speaks to kids’ unspoken wishes; I don’t know many children who wouldn’t want to have an underground lair packed with other kids, but they’d still yearn for structure to keep things from getting boring.
Aside from their infectious humor, Minions are uniquely suited to an internet age. They’re meme-able, GIF-able, and lovable in bite-size portions. It doesn’t take a 90-minute movie to understand their appeal of the Minions. Four-second clips can be enough to help them shine.
The history of minions
Of course, as with all great things in history, the existence of Minions prompts big questions: Where did these strange beings come from? Why do they inspire such polarizing reactions? And is there any deeper meaning to these unusual yellow creatures?
First, let’s tackle the little guys themselves. Minions The Rise of Gru sheds some light on their beginnings in an opening credits sequence that depicts them evolving in the ocean, similar to many other organisms, before emerging fully formed as they appear today (this is a departure from Darwin). Though the supervillain Gru has a gun that can transform humans into Minions, it’s only been seen in an amusement park ride, so most Minions presumably came from the sea. (If you’re looking for more information about Minion reproduction, there’s probably fan-fiction somewhere that can help you out, but you’ll have to Google it on your own.)
Minions The Rise of Gru is the origin story of Gru and a prequel to the Minions movie of 2015, which showed the journey of the Minions from the beginning of time. For hundreds and thousands of years, the lovable gang of yellow creatures has been looking for a villain to lead them. By the end of the movie, they encounter Gru and find their new master in him.
Geologically speaking, Minions depicts its subjects serving an evil dinosaur that appears to be a Tyrannosaurus rex, suggesting they’ve been around at least since the Late Cretaceous Period. That means they’ve existed for at least 60 million years, making them one of the oldest surviving complex organisms on the planet. Throughout history, they’ve served different masters including ancient Egyptians and vampires.
While wild and unpredictable, the Minions are all dedicated henchmen at their core. The central plot of Minions takes place in 1968 as Kevin, Stuart, and Bob (all voiced by Pierre Coffin) attempt to find a new supervillain to serve, although there are also scenes early in the movie that date back billions of years, as Minions are almost as old as the Earth itself. A young 8-year-old Gru meets the Minions at the end of the first prequel, while Minions: The Rise of Gruwill pick up with them serving a 12-year-old Gru during the early years of his super-villainy, some 40 years prior to the crew adopting Margo, Edith, and Agnes in Despicable Me. The franchise’s chronological order is as follows:
Widespread dislike of Minions is well-documented, everywhere from Facebook pages to BuzzFeed.Brian Feldman, writing at the Awl, makes a compelling argument for hating the Minions because their pop cultural ubiquity makes them meaningless. It’s kind of like how every time a Rolling Stones song is used to promote an operating system, it becomes harder to love “Start Me Up”; every time a Minion appears next to a treacly homemade meme about friendship, it gets a little harder to love them:
Minions reveals that the Minions become listless after too much time without a master to serve (since the movie occurs before they meet Gru, it’s the catalyst that sends them searching for a new villain). Despite constructing a magical underground ice lair — complete with sports and musical productions — they sank into ennui without a boss to tell them what to do. Over time, their daily routine broke down without an outside force to control their chaos.Seeing Minions bored turns out to be just as funny as seeing them hyper — it’s like seeing the aftermath of a particularly long sugar rush.
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Though it’s often tough for the layperson to distinguish one Minion from another, they all have unique personalities and names (which their masters quickly learn). The new movie centers on three Minions — Kevin, Stuart, and Bob — who each become more distinct throughout the course of the film (or at least as distinct as gibberish-speaking henchmen can be). Kevin’s the leader, Stuart’s the musician, and Bob’s the kid (he totes around a teddy bear that somehow makes him appear even more adorable — and, in an equally lovable detail, he’s heterochromic).
There are a few things we don’t know about Minions that the new movie doesn’t clarify: We don’t know why they wear goggles, though they’ve done so for thousands of years (early goggles were fashioned from available flora). Relatedly, the evolutionary function of some Minions having one eye while others have two eyes remains unclear. We also don’t know what compels them to serve evil people, though Minions implies it’s an evolutionary imperative, similar to the parasitism seen in the natural world (but only the cute kind, suitable for a McDonald’s toy).
Kevin, Stuart, and Bob are three of the most familiar minions, who appear as stars in the film Minions (2015) and its sequel Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022). Many other Minions are mentioned by name in the films and other media in the franchise. They were created by art director Eric Guillon, who worked on several Illumination films.
The Minions go in another direction, abandoning the realism of Pixar in favor of a more expressionistic depiction of childhood. The Minions are the best and worst things about kids, painted in the brightest colors: They’re pure id, and they’re also pure joy. They’re prone to distraction, but they’re unceasingly devoted. The can be selfish, but also willing to work together toward a common goal. They’re hilarious, infuriating, and wonderful all at once, just like kids.
Minions is a spinoff and prequel to Despicable Meand Despicable Me 2, but instead of focusing on Steve Carell’s Gru, it puts the spotlight on the Minions alone. Set in the late 1960s, the movie follows three Minions as they search for a new evil boss to rule their species. The quest takes them to a villain convention in Florida and, soon after, all around the world.
“Minions: The Rise of Gru” is the latest installment in the “Despicable Me” franchise, which includes three “Despicable Me” movies set in the present and another prequel. The attempts of adult Gru to become the most evil villain in the world are derailed by his love for his new adopted daughters and the hijinks of the Minions, his yellow pill-shaped henchmen.
The Minions were voiced by Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud, and Jemaine Clement in the first film. Coffin voiced Kevin, Tim, Bob, Mark, Phil, and Stuart, Renaud voiced Dave, and Clement voiced Jerry. Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud later reprised their roles in Despicable Me 2. Jemaine Clement was the only one not to reprise his role. Starting from the 2015 spin-off Minions film, Coffin became the solo and only voice actor of the Minions. He would later reprise his role in Despicable Me 3 (2017) and Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022), with Kyle Balda directing the latter.
