San Francisco Chronicle
At 88 minutes, Minions: The Rise of Gru struggles to find enough story to encompass its run time...
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Minions: The Rise of Gru
Steve Carell returns as tyrannical leader Gru, this time a bright-eyed child with dreams of world domination, in the prequel to Illumination's CG-animated Despicable Me film series.
When supervillain supergroup the Vicious 6 oust their leader, Wild Knuckles (voiced by Alan Arkin), a young and inspired Gru interviews to become their newest member but messes it up so bad that he finds himself the group's new sworn enemy. Now running for his life, he must turn to an unlikely source of help - Wild Knuckles himself - to fend off his foes and realise his evil potential.
Less2022Rating: PG, Mild themes and animated violence87 minsUSAIllumination
AnimatedKids & Family
- Director:
- Kyle Balda ('Minions', 'Despicable Me 3', 'The Lorax')Brad Ableson (feature debut)
- Cast:
- Steve CarellPierre Coffin
Minions: The Rise of Gru | Reviews
66%44 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® Score
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Stuff
This fitfully funny family entertainment is what Goldmember was to the original Austin Powers... fun, but ultimately fairly forgettable.
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Little White Lies
It’s by no means horrendous or offensive, but it’s just a chronic bore...
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TVNZ
Despicable Me has always shone with its wordplay and background gags and Rise of Gru is no different.
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Los Angeles Times
87 minutes of pure chaos, a hallucinatory, cacophonous fever dream of nonsensical subplots and Minion gibberish.
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Collider
This heist bonanza switches from storyline to storyline faster than a gaggle of whack-a-moles.
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A.V. Club
Ultimately, The Rise Of Gru exerts a negligible impact on the Minions’ canonical journey.
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Sydney Morning Herald
It should be fun... but the action is so loud and so relentless that the Minions’ quieter charms are left in the shade.
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The Telegraph
An unexpected treat, and by far the series' punchiest and most polished entry yet.
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Empire Magazine
Like the Minions, this instalment is barely distinguishable from any of the others, but it’s easy to be won over by its nutty joy and enthusiasm.
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Slash Film
Where the film really shines is in how it takes Bruce Lee and Blaxploitation movies and wraps them around a Minions story.
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Variety
Audiences know what to expect, and Illumination delivers, offering another feel-good dose of bad behaviour.
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Screen Daily
Ultimately... the madcap elements of the Minion repertoire still deliver the playful escapism that the series is known for.
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Minions: The Rise of Gru | Release Details
Minions: The Rise of Gru is now playing in 308 cinemas in Australia.