A comeback.
With 600,000 admissions on its first day of operation (including 95,000 previews), the animated film
The Minions 2: Once Upon a Time Gru
achieved the best start of the year.
They dethroned the behemoths
Jurassic World: The World After
and
Top Gun Maverick.
First imagined as simple comic commas to humanize this endearing antihero of Despicable
Me
released in 2010, the Minions roundly stole the show from their master.
Seven years after the first film, we find Kevin, Stuart, Bob and their friends in 1976. Released on Friday in the United States where it also had a triumph
, The Minions 2: Once Upon a Time Gru
, whose broadcast has been postponed of two years by Universal because of the pandemic, explores the origins of the main character of the franchise.
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The Minions 2: Once upon a time Gru
, the minions dive into the kung fu of the seventies
In this part signed Kyle Balda, the young Gru is 12 years old and dreams of only one thing: to become a super-villain like his idols of the moment, the Machiavellian Vicious Six.
Will Karnage (whose French voice is provided by Gérard Darmon) is the undisputed leader.
When he has just stolen an amulet with terrifying magical powers, hidden deep in the equatorial jungle, his colleagues betray him and take the precious loot away.
As the gang has made a name for itself on the name of the Vicious Six, it becomes urgent to recruit a new member to maintain its reputation.
Le Figaro critic Olivier Delcroix
considers the film to be “focused on 1h20
,
this little gem of slapstick by Kyle Balda plays the card of non-stop action to the fullest, sprinkled with subversive and referential humor, which crackles like the final bouquet of a joyful firework.