It’s a franchise whose sharp, steep decline began with its first sequel, and the precarious drop has only accelerated through the increasingly lazy, hollow follow-ups. There’s no beating around the bush – the Despicable Me franchise has nowhere to go and nothing to say. If you want or are expecting much in the way of story, don’t bother the plot is mostly a pretense for a series of Three Stooges like setups for the minions and some extremely tenuous character development for Gru as he interacts with newcomer Wild Knuckles, voiced by a very tired Alan Arkin. The film follows Gru and the minions as they first attempt to impress a team of supervillains, then deal with the fallout of those actions. It’s a good thing Illumination is already under the Universal banner they’re the perfect studio to control and guide a franchise which adamantly refuses to change or adapt, already well practiced in the art of not giving a shit with the Jurassic World franchise. The jaundiced pills are back, hollering and pratfalling their way through eighty-five minutes of mostly filler B-roll, a film which could easily be chopped up into those three-minute shorts Illumination use to make back when the first film released. This week is Minions 2: The Rise of Gru, a completely unapt title, but we’ll get there. In theaters this week, what else? Another film from Universal, one of only two studios left that still has a chance at erecting those lucrative tentpoles. “Did You Just Trade My Future for a Pet Rock?”
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