Those not so Despicable Minions

November 4, 2014 6:09 AM

After laboring as second bananas in Despicable Me 1 and 2, the Minions are finally getting their own movie.
posted by Brandon Blatcher (35 comments total)

This will either be really good or really bad. There is no middle ground possible here.
posted by eriko at 6:18 AM on November 4, 2014 [8 favorites]

BAAAAAAAAA

NAAAAAAAAA

NAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!



(bapple?)
posted by soundguy99 at 6:20 AM on November 4, 2014 [15 favorites]

Arriving in the US in 1968, wanting to work for the biggest baddest villain to serve. Soooo, I guess they just go down to DC to work in the Nixon administration?
posted by barnacles at 6:20 AM on November 4, 2014 [6 favorites]

I'm excited and also terribly afraid that it will be like a cake made entirely of frosting.
posted by hat_eater at 6:22 AM on November 4, 2014 [24 favorites]

Despicable Me 2 practically was all about the minions anyway.
posted by Foosnark at 6:30 AM on November 4, 2014

I saw Despicable Me and kind of liked it, but I knew without a doubt that the Minions would take over the entire franchise. I didn't bother seeing the sequel.

I hate it when I'm right.
posted by Faint of Butt at 6:44 AM on November 4, 2014 [2 favorites]

My younger child, who is 3 and a total chaos Muppet, loves the minions and their cheerful chaos with all his soul. They are his spirit animal.

He was a good minion for Halloween and has a bad minion hat for winter and would prefer to subsist entirely on bananas.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 6:48 AM on November 4, 2014 [7 favorites]

Anybody notice the David Bowie song Under Pressure being used in the trailer? And did anybody notice that Bob the minion has heterochromia?
posted by workerant at 6:50 AM on November 4, 2014 [8 favorites]

First Penguins of Madagascar, and now the Minions. So the supporting characters are getting their own shows, and are often more interesting than the primary billing.

I fully support this trend.
posted by Old'n'Busted at 6:51 AM on November 4, 2014 [4 favorites]

Is that Esperanto they're speaking, or some kind of pidgin French?
posted by Flashman at 7:16 AM on November 4, 2014

workerant, I went back and check, and Bob didn't seem to have heterochromia that I could see...
posted by jrishel at 7:18 AM on November 4, 2014

Huh, really? They totally look like two different colors to me. Weird.
posted by workerant at 7:36 AM on November 4, 2014 [3 favorites]

I saw Despicable Me and really enjoyed it, and I knew without a doubt that the Minions would entirely deservedly take over the entire franchise because they are the cutest bestest things ever. I enjoyed the sequel as well.

I love it when I'm right.

Also:

Bottom.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 7:38 AM on November 4, 2014 [5 favorites]

Is that Esperanto they're speaking, or some kind of pidgin French?

It's gibberish, really, but with words from a variety of languages thrown in. Besides mis-pronounced English, various websources claim French, Spanish, Indian, Italian, Japanese & Korean.

The co-directors of the Despicable Me films (Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud) created the "language" and did some of the voices of the minions.
posted by soundguy99 at 7:41 AM on November 4, 2014 [2 favorites]

Well I can't wait for "That was fantastic, well it was pretty good, I didn't like it, boo" - The Stadtler and Waldorf movie.
posted by stevil at 7:46 AM on November 4, 2014 [3 favorites]

I saw Despicable Me and kind of liked it, but I knew without a doubt that the Minions would take over the entire franchise. I didn't bother seeing the sequel.

BIG MISTAKE


bottom
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 8:33 AM on November 4, 2014 [2 favorites]

My nephew also went as a minion for Halloween. He refers to the second movie as the one where they go "Wee bo! Wee bo! Wee bo!"
posted by dirigibleman at 8:36 AM on November 4, 2014 [1 favorite]

stevil: "Well I can't wait for "That was fantastic, well it was pretty good, I didn't like it, boo" - The Stadtler and Waldorf movie."

"Did you say it was fantastic?"

"What? No! I said it was fantastically bad!"

DOH HOHO HOHO HO!

OH HOHO HO HO!
posted by boo_radley at 8:59 AM on November 4, 2014 [5 favorites]

Pretty sure this will be one of the greatest movies of 2015, both financially and creatively.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 9:14 AM on November 4, 2014 [1 favorite]

So they are making a Raving Rabbids movie?
posted by scruss at 9:14 AM on November 4, 2014 [2 favorites]

Whaaaaaaa?
posted by Kabanos at 9:39 AM on November 4, 2014 [1 favorite]

Eagerly awaiting the "Minions Meet the Simpsons and Spongebob Movie", with cameos by Tweety Bird, Pac-Man and Woodstock. Everything's coming up yellow.
posted by oneswellfoop at 10:08 AM on November 4, 2014

I vote on heterochromia for Bob, too.

And the minions getting their own movie is infinitely better than 95% of the SNL skits that were made into movies. Hell, that trailer was better than those movies.
posted by IAmBroom at 10:21 AM on November 4, 2014 [3 favorites]

I work at comic-cons and it's startling how much enthusiasm there is for a concept with such a tenuous base. It was just a few weeks ago that I was double checking to see if those two movies were the only source of the minion love.
posted by tychotesla at 10:42 AM on November 4, 2014

The GF is really resistant to anything that seems targeted to kids or young adults. She loved DM2. I predict this movie will do gangbusters.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 10:52 AM on November 4, 2014

... but I knew without a doubt that the Minions would take over the entire franchise.

This ended up not being such a bad thing.

In fact it's just about the only thing that hauls it out of the vat of treacle it threatens to drown itself in.
posted by lodurr at 12:06 PM on November 4, 2014

Sure, Minions can have their own movie. Not Black Widow though.
posted by wabbittwax at 12:30 PM on November 4, 2014 [3 favorites]

She can if she becomes a Minion.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 12:37 PM on November 4, 2014 [6 favorites]

I briefly considered the rule 34 ramifications of minions, and now I want to scrub my brain.
posted by lodurr at 1:12 PM on November 4, 2014 [1 favorite]

I wonder, did they keep "serving" dinosaurs until there were none left? An alternate extinction theory...
posted by Kevin Street at 1:55 PM on November 4, 2014 [1 favorite]

tychotesla: It was just a few weeks ago that I was double checking to see if those two movies were the only source of the minion love.

Actually, there have been one or two viral videos released as well, to tease and feed the throngs. IIRC, the Banana song doesn't appear in either movie.
posted by IAmBroom at 2:26 PM on November 4, 2014

The Minions' creator, Pierre Coffin, was interviewed today by a French newspaper about their apparent lack of penis (as seen in the trailer). He answered that they actually have a tiny and yellow penis but that it is necessary to press on the Minion to make it appear.
posted by elgilito at 2:38 PM on November 4, 2014 [8 favorites]

Why is the creator doing the internet's work of figuring out creepy cartoon anatomy?
posted by mccarty.tim at 3:33 PM on November 4, 2014 [2 favorites]

Haters gonna hate, but my 5-year-old son was pretty bored by Despicable Me except for the Minions. He was similarly bored by Frozen except for Olaf the snowman, so maybe Olaf will get his own gig someday.

Haters--the Minion movie is not for you.
posted by zardoz at 3:37 PM on November 4, 2014 [2 favorites]

I laughed hard enough at the trailed for Minions that I scared a cat off my lap. And I loathe most kids' movies. I'll be seeing this one in the theater, I think.
posted by sarcasticah at 4:05 PM on November 4, 2014 [2 favorites]