Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) on Netflix
PG20221h 30m
Gru is eleven in 1976 and wants to be a supervillain. The Minions work for him, and an invitation to audition for the Vicious 6 brings him before the team he idolizes.
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- IMDb6.5/10109,365 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes70%
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Plot summary
Eleven years old in 1976, Gru lives in the suburbs and is set on becoming a supervillain. The Minions work for him: Kevin, Stuart, Bob, and Otto, a newcomer with braces who is eager to please. They build a first lair together and test a first set of weapons. The Vicious 6, the supervillain group that Belle Bottom now leads, is looking for someone to fill the place of its founder, Wild Knuckles, whom the group has ousted. Gru, a fan of the team, gets an invitation to audition and wants to show he is evil enough to join. The Minions serve as his backup as he prepares.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022)
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- The film set off an Internet meme tagged #Gentleminions, with groups of Generation Z adolescent boys dressing in suits like Gru to attend screenings and some dressing as Minions. It began with a group of Australian high schoolers and spread on TikTok almost immediately after release.
- Large groups recorded themselves cheering, throwing bananas at the screen and performing Gru's trademark steepled fingers gesture; several theaters in the United Kingdom banned groups of young men in formal attire from seeing the film because of their disruptive behavior during screenings.
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The theatrical Chinese release replaced the ending scene with a message stating that Wild Knuckles was arrested and sentenced to twenty years in prison, pursued his love of acting and started his own theater troupe, while Gru “returned to his family”.- The film's opening total set the Independence Day weekend record, surpassing Transformers: Dark of the Moon's $115.9 million in 2011.
- Deadline Hollywood reported that Universal spent $140 million promoting The Rise of Gru and a total of $285 million on marketing, the biggest-ever campaign for a Despicable Me film.
- Steve Carell, who reprised his Despicable Me role as Gru, was paid $12.5 million for his involvement in the film.
