“Minions: The Origin of Gru”: an animated series that does not lose popularity

That the saga keeps leveling up one film after another, in light of the ones we know, shouldn’t be easy at all. Ups and downs and irregular deliveries seem to be energizing. And animated films are no exception. Just looking at the franchise shrek (since 2001) and ice Age (since 2002), for example, we understand that after the third film they decrease quite a bit. But this circumstance does not affect Minions: Gru’s Origin (2022).

This is the name of the fifth adventure in which they take part. a long-nosed supervillain voiced by Steve Carell and his hilarious yellow henchmenfor which director Pierre Coffin, having taken over the leadership of the first four in the company of Chris Reno, Kyle Balda and Eric Guyon (2013-2017), finally passed the baton to the second, who shares the baton here with Jonathan del Val, whose debut feature film was pets 2 (2019) and Brad Ableson, feature film newcomer.

These filmmakers managed to keep without problem – or with painstaking work – the same line of lively and humorous style and quality during a real pentalogy. But we must understand something important; his work, however valuable it may seem to us, in no way can reconcile with the proposals of the major league of the genre. And the best one mentioned shrek D ice Age or Pixar is light years away from a decent movie like Minions: Gru’s Origin.

Relentless movement “Minions: The Origin of Gru”

New adventures of these characters are added another necessary piece of the puzzle of history cooperation and hierarchy between Felonius Gru, his unpredictable and out of control cylindrical minions and other colleagues. And, as in the previous ones, and in any story that generates real interest in the internal forum of the main characters, one of its tasks is to explain the reasons why our bad boy is the way he is. A target for which there is no doubt that this length has not come to an end.

Thus, his insistence on dwelling on the motives of the future supervillain and the connection he makes with eccentric beings, Minions: Gru’s Origin this is true to the idiosyncrasy of the saga cinematic No wonder this is Brian Lynch’s third script for her after the short Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem (2012) and that of minions (2015), although the first created by Matthew Vogel, based on the creations of his colleagues Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul.

Enthusiasm and energy that remain intact

As with the rest of the franchise, there are hits in some cases that make us genuinely laugh while the 3D scenes are happening, but yeah. some comedic moments are about to become glorious. In particular, a crazy journey that reinforces the fun with various situations in alternative montage and the irresistible counterpoint of the symphonic musical theme of the classic, slipping between the successful notes of the composer Heitor Pereira.

may be, Minions: Gru’s Origin It cannot be considered an animated film at all, like previous adventures, to which even mega mind (2010) excels in its own narrative combat. But rides driven by a movie salesman like Kyle Balda and his henchmen such enthusiasm and energy that, if they do not infect us, they at least make us see him with great pleasure, and that we cannot take our eyes off his unbridled images.