![]() ![]() ![]() Following its premiere at Annecy, the film will be released in most territories globally on July 1, almost exactly two years after its planned pre-Covid release date of July 2020. Older audiences may appreciate the film’s profligate use of needle-drops throughout, ranging from The Ramones to Linda Rondstadt’s ’You’re No Good’ to a Minion cover version of The Rolling Stones’ ’You Can’t Always Get What You Want.’ Still, it does feel that with this good-natured but somewhat repetitive outing, the Minions might have finally run out of some of that pinballing energy. It’s an appeal which seems likely to be concentrated mainly among younger audiences, although the art direction of the mid-1970s San Francisco setting is unexpectedly handsome and detailed. ![]() The appeal of a bunch of oversized lemon Tic Tacs in welding goggles catapulting around the frame endures But the familiar silliness of the Minions is essential to their appeal. There’s very little that’s new in The Rise Of Gru, unless you count the introduction of Minion sad eyes, which are deployed strategically to emotionally blackmail their victims. But in fact, the film is dominated by Minion slapstick, and serves predominantly as a showcase for those pessary-shaped agents of chaos to do what they do best: fart, blow raspberries and belt each other over their freakish little yellow heads. The picture is billed as Gru’s origin story - an insight into his formative years, his early forays into villainy and an introduction to the man who will become his evil mentor, a long-in-the-tooth West Coast biker known as Wild Knuckles (Alan Arkin). The title of the latest film in the enduringly popular Despicable Me series gives some indication of the conflicting forces at work here. Dirs: Kyle Balda, Brad Ableson, Jonathan Del Val. ![]()
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