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Minions

  • 20152015
  • PGPG
  • 1h 31m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
236K
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POPULARITY
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83
Minions (2015)
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AnimationAdventureComedy
Minions Stuart, Kevin, and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a supervillain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world.Minions Stuart, Kevin, and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a supervillain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world.Minions Stuart, Kevin, and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a supervillain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world.
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
236K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
432
83
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Directors
      • Kyle Balda
      • Pierre Coffin
    • Writer
      • Brian Lynch
    • Stars
      • Sandra Bullock(voice)
      • Jon Hamm(voice)
      • Michael Keaton(voice)
    Top credits
    • Directors
      • Kyle Balda
      • Pierre Coffin
    • Writer
      • Brian Lynch
    • Stars
      • Sandra Bullock(voice)
      • Jon Hamm(voice)
      • Michael Keaton(voice)
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 393User reviews
    • 343Critic reviews
    • 56Metascore
    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 4 wins & 29 nominations total

    Videos10

    Stuart & Dave
    Trailer 0:53
    Stuart & Dave
    Trailer #3
    Trailer 3:19
    Trailer #3
    Trailer #2
    Trailer 2:22
    Trailer #2
    Trailer #1
    Trailer 2:48
    Trailer #1
    Trailer #1
    Trailer 2:38
    Trailer #1
    Scarlett Enlists The Minions Help
    Clip 0:51
    Scarlett Enlists The Minions Help
    Super Bowl Spot
    Clip 0:36
    Super Bowl Spot
    Mini-Movie: Competition
    Featurette 3:52
    Mini-Movie: Competition
    Exclusive Featurette
    Featurette 2:06
    Exclusive Featurette
    Pierre Coffin
    Interview 2:32
    Pierre Coffin

    Photos309

    Pierre Coffin in Minions (2015)
    Minions (2015)
    Sandra Bullock in Minions (2015)
    Minions (2015)
    Minions (2015)
    Michael Keaton and Allison Janney in Minions (2015)
    Minions (2015)
    Minions (2015)
    Sandra Bullock and Jon Hamm in Minions (2015)
    Michael Keaton, Allison Janney, and Katy Mixon in Minions (2015)
    Sandra Bullock in Minions (2015)
    Minions (2015)

    Top cast

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    Sandra Bullock
    Sandra Bullock
    • Scarlet Overkill
    • (voice)
    Jon Hamm
    Jon Hamm
    • Herb Overkill
    • (voice)
    Michael Keaton
    Michael Keaton
    • Walter Nelson
    • (voice)
    Pierre Coffin
    Pierre Coffin
    • The Minions
    • (voice)
    Allison Janney
    Allison Janney
    • Madge Nelson
    • (voice)
    Steve Coogan
    Steve Coogan
    • Professor Flux
    • (voice)
    Jennifer Saunders
    Jennifer Saunders
    • The Queen
    • (voice)
    Geoffrey Rush
    Geoffrey Rush
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    Steve Carell
    Steve Carell
    • Young Gru
    • (voice)
    Katy Mixon
    Katy Mixon
    • Tina
    • (voice)
    Michael Beattie
    Michael Beattie
    • VNC Announcer
    • (voice)
    Hiroyuki Sanada
    Hiroyuki Sanada
    • Sumo Villain
    • (voice)
    Dave Rosenbaum
    Dave Rosenbaum
    • Fabrice
    • (voice)
    Alex Dowding
    • Royal Advisor
    • (voice)
    Paul Thornley
    Paul Thornley
    • News Reporter
    • (voice)
    Ava Acres
    Ava Acres
    • Additional Voices
    • (voice)
    Carlos Alazraqui
    Carlos Alazraqui
    • Additional Voices
    • (voice)
    Lori Alan
    Lori Alan
    • Additional Voices
    • (voice)
    • Directors
      • Kyle Balda
      • Pierre Coffin
    • Writer
      • Brian Lynch
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Director Pierre Coffin voiced all 899 minions in this film.
    • Goofs
      The ticket prices at the Tower of London were shown in decimal currency (and were too expensive for the time). The film is set in 1968, but the UK didn't adopt a decimal currency until 1971.
    • Quotes

      Scarlett Overkill: Work for me, and all this will be yours: respect, power...

      Stuart the Minion: Banana!

      Scarlett Overkill: ...Banana!

    • Crazy credits
      The Universal Pictures fanfare is sung by Minions. One of them holds a note until he loses his breath and passes out on the Illumination Entertainment title card.
    • Connections
      Featured in Annoying Orange: Trailer Trashed: Minions (2015)
    • Soundtracks
      Happy Together
      Written by Gary Bonner, Alan Gordon

      Performed by The Turtles

      Courtesy of Flo & Eddie, Inc.

    User reviews393

    Review
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    Top review
    Playfully Aimless
    2013's Despicable Me 2 has proved that people came back to this franchise for the striking popularity of the film's comic relief characters, the Minions. So the studio basically made a spin-off mainly for them, which makes more sense than having these characters stealing the predecessor's spotlight, thus leads to a result that can be good and mostly bad. It seems that the filmmakers don't have much of a decent idea for the original character for a while, so it's quite appropriate for them to stumble into these Minions while it lasts. Unfortunately, the film doesn't find a compelling storyline for these antics to fit right through. While the gags are funny enough, it suddenly gets exhausting after a while. In the end, there is just nothing remarkable about it.

    The Minions happen to be long-living prehistoric creatures that exist to serve any formidable master, in spite of their often incompetence. It's a decent little origin story, even though we would rather assume them as an accidental science experiment. But this makes for a setup of putting them in desperation for having a boss after a number of failures of keeping them alive. Now that the actual plot enters the picture, the movie now takes place where supervillains are the ones who deserve them, with three of the Minions stumbling from one misadventure to another. The laughs are solid, though some can feel a little forced while some can be unexpectedly tasteless, but a joke works if the film actually finds an inspired humor within itself. But the main story itself doesn't find any remarkable substance or any cleverness, at all. It's just randomness after randomness, and it's sometimes losing its steam until the film finally finds another occasional great joke again after ten minutes or so.

    The comedic action on screen is undeniably enjoyable. The bright, playful visuals have always been helpful in these Despicable Me movies. The movie centrally takes place in a new environment and time, while adequately captures the era and location, though also making unimaginative stereotyping to the British culture, but anyway. Some dark humor sneaks in, as well, it gets a little too outrageous, but I believe it's for the sake of establishing its world of villainy. The story eventually not gaining much of a center at all. These series of silly situations lead to the fate that we would all expect. Nothing more and nothing less. The voice acting is only impressive when it comes to the Minions, we all knew that already from the past installments. The rest of the cast are committed to go over-the-top as their characters are actually written.

    In spite of extending the focus of these characters who are more popular than Gru, it's still not quite a satisfying experience. Maybe the Minions aren't meant to have a movie at all. It would have been a kid's TV show being played in the morning or something. Or the story would have given itself more effort in sticking these comedic moments with coherency. It's possible. Earlier this year, Aardman proved that physical comedy still works in this era of more verbal animated films and can be consistent in narrative. But the film seems too aimless to realize that. It's only pandering the audience until they are interested with Gru again for the third Despicable Me, only if that sequel could offer more than this.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • July 10, 2015 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • United Kingdom
    • Official sites
      • Official Blog
      • Official Facebook
    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Suoiuiw
    • Filming locations
      • New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Illumination Entertainment
      • Universal Pictures
    • See more company credits at IMDbPro

    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $74,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $336,045,770
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $115,718,405
      • Jul 12, 2015
    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,159,444,662
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 31 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Datasat
      • SDDS
      • Dolby Digital
      • Dolby Atmos
      • Auro 11.1
      • Dolby Surround 7.1
      • Dolby
      • 12-Track Digital Sound
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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