

He is playful and brings much annoyance to Kevin. īob first appears during the credits of Despicable Me 2, where is auditioning for the spin-off film Minions along with Kevin and Stuart. Is also shown more mature, albeit still playful, as well as more of a goofball like all the other Minions.īob with Kevin and Stuart in the audition of the spin-off film Minions. However, in the audition scene in Despicable Me 2 (having grown since the time of Minions), he became more plumper which made him look more like the short and plump Minions with spiky hair, just no hair. He also enjoys bedtime stories and playing with his favorite stuffed teddy bear, Tim. He is described as a "Little Brother" who finds love in anything and everything, including a rat (who he named Poochy) he found in a sewer in the Minions film. He often carries around a teddy bear that he owns called Tim, which is brown with yellow buttoned eyes.īob is a Minion who is more childish and immature than most of the other Minions. Movie Promo)īob is a short and bald Minion with heterocromia. The Rise of Gru made $107 million at the box office for its opening weekend, totaling a whopping $548.2 million worldwide at the time of writing. It's more forgettable and immaterial than the first two Despicable Me movies but remains a pacy, occasionally inspired installment. While the Minions are certainly forces of cuteness and destruction in their own right, their antics weren't enough to carry an entire movie, but the prequel saw greater success (both creatively and commercially) than its immediate forebear. Minions: The Rise of Gru succeeded where Minions failed because Gru was at the center of the plot. The Minions must help Gru along the way while protecting him from the even-more-villainous Six.

Gru is eventually targeted by a supervillain group known as the Vicious 6 after he's able to steal the Zodiac Stone. The prequel takes the story back to 1975 when an 11-year-old Gru is starting his ascent as a supervillain-in-training with the help/hindrance of his Minions. While the Minions movie was a notable disappointment, its prequel, The Rise of Gru, reintroduced the better elements of both worlds. After Minions bombed critically, the studio went on to make Despicable Me 3 and seem to have listened to many critics who thought Gru should be at the forefront of the franchise. While not the best Despicable Me movie, Minions: The Rise of Gruis pretty far up on the list.

The creators tried to give the people what they wanted: more Minions, but Minions ended up being too much of a good thing. However, given that the movie brought in over $1.1 billion at the worldwide box office, it seems that Minions must have resonated with younger viewers with its often nonsensical jokes. There's no doubt that Despicable Me would not be what it is today without the Minions, but the movie often finds itself on lists that rank the worst films that made over a billion dollars. To its credit, Minions was on Netflix’s top 25 movies in 2021, but the slapstick humor got old really fast and the film just ran out of steam. With the lowest Rotten Tomatoes rating of the franchise, the Minions movie proved that the little guys function better as little morsels of comic relief, not the main characters of a full-length film. The cute yellow Minions may have gotten their own movie because they stole audiences' hearts in the first two Despicable Me movies, but Minions went a little too far.
