That a saga maintains the level one film after another, in light of those we know, should not be easy at all. The ups and downs and irregular deliveries seem to be the tonic. And animated cinema is not an exceptional case. Just looking at the franchises of Shrek (since 2001) and ice-age (since 2002), for example, we realize that, after the third film, they decline quite a bit. But this circumstance does not affect the Minions: The Origin of Gru (2022).
This is how the fifth adventure in which they take part has been titled the long-nosed supervillain voiced by Steve Carell and his hilarious yellow henchmenfor which the director Pierre Coffin, after taking charge of the first four in the company of Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda and Eric Guillon (2013-2017), has definitively passed the baton to the second, who shares the baton here with Jonathan del Val , whose debut feature was pets 2 (2019), and Brad Ableson, Feature Film Rookie.
These filmmakers have managed to preserve without problems—or with painstaking effort, that is— the same line of lively and humorous style and quality during the present pentalogy. But we must understand something significant; his work, no matter how estimable we see it, can in no way rub shoulders with the proposals of the big leagues of the genre. And the best of the mentioned Shrek Y ice-age or Pixar is light years away from a decent movie like Minions: The Origin of Gru.
Minions: The Origin of Gru
If you had a ton of fun watching the previous four movies about our favorite animated villain and his giddy Simpsons-colored minions, you’d better not miss out. Minions: The Origin of Gru. Kyle Balda’s new sequel retains his unstoppable visual spectacle of rhythm, his same energy and situations of crazy humor and pure entertainment. It may be that none of his installments have managed to become a milestone in the genre like those of Pixar, but they don’t need to as long as they continue to provide us with adventures as satisfying as this one.
The irrepressible movement of ‘Minions: The origin of Gru’
The new adventures of these characters add another necessary piece to the puzzle of history of collaboration and hierarchy between Felonious Gru, his unpredictable and uncontrolled cylindrical minions and other colleagues. And, like the previous ones and any story with a real interest in the internal forum of the protagonists, one of its objectives is to explain the reasons why our bad boy is the way he is. A purpose about which there is no doubt that this length has not come to an end.
Thus, by his insistence on dwelling on the future supervillain’s motivations and the bond he forges with the eccentric creatures, Minions: The Origin of Gru it is faithful to the idiosyncrasy of the saga filmic Not surprisingly, it is the third script by Bryan Lynch for her after the short Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem (2012) and that of The minions (2015), although the first by Matthew Fogel, taking up the creations of his colleagues Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul.
But apart from this and the usual highly refined technique, Kyle Balda and company do not lose their way and, with the structure of the libretto, once again offer us the quintessence of the purest entertainment and genuine. In Minions: The Origin of Gru there is the almost constant movement, the irrepressible verbiage, the jokes that are not very clever but always acceptable that they throw at us without stopping, trying to make the viewers, absorbed, unable to get away from what is happening on the screen.
Enthusiasm and energy that remain intact
As in the rest of the works of the franchise, on few occasions there are blows that make us laugh sincerely while the three-dimensional sequences take place, but yes some comedy moments about to become glorious. Specifically, a delirious journey that underpins its hilarity with different situations in alternate montage and the irresistible counterpoint of a symphonic musical theme of the classics, which slips between the successful notes of the composer Heitor Pereira.
maybe, Minions: The Origin of Gru It cannot be considered an animated movie at all, just like the previous adventures, to which even mega mind (2010) surpasses in its own narrative fight. But the attractions in which a cinematic carny like Kyle Balda and his cronies ride us have such enthusiasm and energy that, if they do not infect us, at least they make us see it with great pleasure and that one does not take our eyes off its unbridled images.