Minions: The Rise of Gru instal the last version for windows

The first Minions prequel wasn’t exactly a contemporary classic, but it had a gonzo anarchic sensibility (including a handful of cartoonishly violent deaths) and an over-the-top animated turn by Sandra Bullock as the film’s prime villain.

But as a story and character play, it rarely rises above “Oh, it’s a Minions flick.” That said, Minions: The Rise of Gru is a gorgeously animated comic adventure, one that played quite well on that huge TCL IMAX screen. That’s not entirely a criticism, as the film is yet another example of how Illumination grows and evolves as an animation powerhouse without coming off as showy or “for the sake of razzle-dazzle.” Perhaps because their films tend to be more grounded and less fantastical (even if the characters themselves are inherently fantastic), they don’t quite get the “Holy moly!” animation huzzahs of their (often more expensive) competitors. Following the $407 million finish for Sing 2 (on par with The Secret Life of Pets 2’s $430 million gross in 2019) and the $239 million gross for The Bad Guys and the $253 million gross for Encanto and the (likely) $225-$250 million finish for Pixar, a business-as-usual blockbuster result for Minions 2 could signal a genuine changing of the guard.Īnyway, that’s more of a commercial consideration ( Minions earned $1.1 billion in 2015 while Despicable Me 3 grossed $1 billion in 2017 and Despicable Me 2 earned $968 million in 2013) than an artistic one, but honestly, this latest franchise installment almost defies artistic consideration.

No matter how it would have played in summer 2020 under non-Covid circumstances, it arrives in theaters during a moment whereby Disney’s biggest animated rivals (DreamWorks and Illumination, now both under the Comcast umbrella) have been mostly surpassing the Mouse House’s theatrical toons in terms of the global box office.

Illumination and Universal’s Minions: The Rise of Gru is the last film that was intended for release in 2020 that was left unreleased due to Covid, opening just over a month after Top Gun: Maverick and Bob’s Burgers: The Movie.

Minions: The Rise of Gru instal the last version for windows