MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU

It’s hard to believe that the last time those yellow Minions graced our screens was back in 2017. They are such a prominent part of pop culture that even though they haven’t had appeared in a feature film since ‘Despicable Me 3’ their faces still haunt us in short films, billions of pieces of merch and, of course, the Facebook memes. After years of delays due to the pandemic, Stu, Bob, Kevin and the rest of the Minions are back and we get to found out when they first meet Gru.

After the events in London from the first ‘Minions’ film, 'Minions: The Rise of Gru' sees them follow a 12-year-old Gru (Steve Carell, ‘Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day’, ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love’) back to his life in the United States. There, they wreak havoc around town as supervillains-to-be and idolise over The Vicious 6. The group is led by Wild Knuckles (Alan Arkin, ‘Argo’, ‘Little Miss Sunshine’), but after going after he goes missing, they are looking for new recruits and interview Gru. The interview goes horribly wrong and now Belle Bottom (Taraji P. Henson, ‘What Men Want’, ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’), Jean Clawed (Jean-Claude Van Damme, ‘Kung Fu Panda’, ‘Kickboxer: Vengeance’), Nunchuck (Lucy Lawless, TV's ‘Park and Recreation’ and ‘Xena: Warrior Princess’), Svengeance (Dolph Lundgren, ‘Creed II’, ‘Aquaman’) and Stronghold (Danny Trejo, ‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’, ‘Machete’) are after Gru and his minions - but there are secrets looming about the villainous group that change everything.