"Minions: The Rise of Gru" is out July 1. Say what you will about Minions -- those tiny yellow, goggle-wearing buggers in blue overalls who’ve been around since the dawn of time talking ...

Gru and the Minions thus take off on parallel tracks, which merely adds to the splintered nature of the story, which is unhelpfully crammed into a less-than-90-minute package.

MONDAY AM: Writethru after Sunday AM post — As Illumination/Universal‘s Minions: The Rise of Gru clinches an Independence Day 4-day opening record of $125.1M, the ...

Then a young Gru (Steve Carell) dressed in signature black outfit, with gray-and-black striped scarf, looks up from his fan drawing of the Vicious 6, a super-villain crew, to declare ...

That immediately earned Jokic comparisons to the protagonist of the "Despicable Me" series, Gru. This was no accident. Jokic's costume was part of an elaborate marketing stunt for the upcoming ...

Previous entries in the series played like zany feature-length cartoons. This one feels like someone shoehorned a handful of shorts into a slightly messy 90-minute movie. Returning director Chris ...