Ever since the dawn of time, the Minions have lived to serve the most despicable of masters. From T. rex to Napoleon, the easily distracted tribe has helped the biggest and the baddest of villains. Now, join protective leader Kevin, teenage rebel Stuart and lovable little Bob on a global road trip where they'll earn a shot to work for a new boss-the world's first female super-villain-and try to save all of Minionkind...from annihilation. Written by
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The movie starts with a narration about the minions, how they have existed since long ago, seeking the most evil entity to serve. The change from master to master due to often its them who cause their masters demise. One day they find themselves isolated in an ice cavern and thrive as a tribe. But as time passes they lose spirit in living because they dont have a master. A minion Kevin decides to go to the outside world to find a master. He gets Stuart and Bob as his companions. They arrive at New York and after some time wandering around they found a secret villain TV channel that announces the Villain Con in Orlando. Hitching a ride with the Nelsons, who turn out to be villains also, the minions reach Villain Con. There they see Scarlet Overkill, then the worlds most notorious villain, who turns out to be seeking for a henchman. Bob accidentally wins the contest to become Scarlets henchman.
The minions follow Scarlet to her castle and Kevin phones his fellow minions to come. She tasks the minions to steal the royal crown from Queen Elizabeth of Britain. With gadgets from Scarlets husband Herb, the minions succeed in stealing the crown but get caught red handed so they run from capture, until Bob accidentally releases the sword in the stone from the Excalibur legends. Thus Bob is crowned king. Scarlet is infuriated by this and visits the minions. They instead happily give the crown and the kingship to Scarlet. But Scarlet instead sends them to a torture chamber. But somehow the minions cant be killed by the torture equipments and they sneak back into Scarlets coronation ceremony to apologize. But again their will dont as well as their deeds, as instead the crash an ancient chandelier onto Scarlets head. Scarlet sends the other villains from Villain Con after the minions. Stuart and Bob get captured.
Kevin escapes and stumbles into Herbs secret weapon, which transforms him into a gigantic minion. He saves Stuart and Bob while battling Scarlet, while the rest of the minions arrive. Kevin swallows Scarlets rocket but prevents her to escape, blowing her up and returning Kevin to his size. Kevin, Stuart and Bob are rewarded by the Queen. But Scarlet returns and steals the crown, only to be stopped by young Gru, who takes the crown and gains the minions as his servants.
Director Pierre Coffin voices all 899 minions in this film.
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The British Royal Crown seen being worn by Bob during his 'coronation' scene can briefly be seen in Despicable Me when the Minions are all offering up treasures to help fund Gru's attempt to steal the moon.
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The leading three minions were designed to resemble Gru's daughters: Margo, Agnes and Edith.
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Gargamel from Smurfs can be seen sitting in front of the minions at Villiancon.
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The first teaser of this film is seen towards the ending credits of Despicable Me 2 (2013), where three minions are auditioning for this film. Although the audition features the same three minions, they have changed slightly since their first appearance. Bob's eye colour is more obvious in this film compared to the teaser, for instance.
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The language known as "Minionese" which is spoken by the minions is a mix between several languages including English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Malay, Hebrew and Gibberish.
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Bob has "Heterochromia iridum." His eyes are two different colors.
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Kevin, Stuart, and Bob visit 'Villain Con', which shares a lot in common with Comic Con. Indeed, Scarlet Overkill's bombastic presentation takes place in 'Hall H', commonly used for some of Comic Con's biggest events.
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Bob has a similar bear to the one Rowan Atkinson's Mr Bean owns, however Bob's bear - Tim - has shorter arms.
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The first Non-Disney or Pixar animated film to take $1 billion worldwide at the box office.
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First movie in which Sandra Bullock portrays the villain.
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There's some of the Minionese's words taken from Indonesian such as "terima kasih" (thank you), "kemari" (come here), "yang mulia" (your highness) and other else. This is mainly because Piere Coffin's mother is an Indonesian writer.
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The song the minions sing to the Yetis is Donald O'Connor's "Make 'Em Laugh" from "Singing In The Rain".
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The film takes time in 1968 and 42 years B.G (Before Gru). If you add 42 years on 1968, it will be 2010, the year Gru and the Minions made their debut in Despicable Me (2010).
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In the first trailer, a minion picks a banana from under a rock. He then says: "C'est Banana, Miam Miam!". In French that translates into: "It's a Banana, Yummy!"
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The Kevin in this film is a different Kevin to whom Gru acknowledges in the first "Despicable Me" film.
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Kevin often uses the phrase "Se pa la", which could be used as the French terms "C'est par l" (It's that way), or "C'est pas l" (It's not there).
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During the wolf/bedtime story scene, the background music is Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.
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Professor Flux at Villain Con is named after the flux capacitor from Back to the Future (1985). The flux capacitor was what made time travel possible, while Professor Flux invented the first time machine which he uses to collect future versions of himself and bring them back as his assistants.
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Sandra Bullock wore minion-inspired shoes to the film's premiere.
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When exiting the sewer, the Minions leave via a manhole marked 'Abbey Road' and appear underneath The Beatles doing their famous "Abbey Road" walk, complete with Paul McCartney's naked feet.
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The butler from the palace is the same butler from Despicable Me 2. He can be seen serving tea at the AVL to agent Ramsbottom.
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Minions is set in 1968. When the minions were trying to get into the Tower of London, the entrance fees were displayed in decimal currency, but England did not adopt a decimal currency until 1971. In 1968, the currency was pounds, shillings, and pence.
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Kevin, Stuart and Bob travel to Orlando, Florida for Villain Con. Orlando is currently home to the Universal Studios Florida theme park, which features a Despicable Me ride in which guests are "transformed" into Minions.
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The carpet in the lab of Herb Overkill is the same as the carpet in the Overlook Hotel in The Shining.
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The TV shows watched in the department store during their overnight stay were: The Saint, Bewitched, and The Dating Game.
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When arriving in New York, a billboard is shown for Richard Nixon's 1968 Presidential Campaign with the slogan "Finally, a name you can trust".
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Depending on the country where the film is shown, the bulk of the minions trek from Australia to differing countries, including at least India and Japan.
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This film shows how the minions come cross their iconic dungarees. However, the dungarees don't sport Gru's logo as they don't work for Gru at the time.
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In Despicable Me 2, in the background while the minions are mashing fruits, You can see Bob, Stuart, and Kevin mashing the fruits as a group.
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Stuart's haircut in this movie is different from Despicable Me.
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The movie's trailer also contained the scene where Kevin gets hit in the groin by the elderly Tower guard, but longer, showing that Kevin doesn't feel any pain over it (suggesting a lack of genitalia).
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In the scene in Villain-Con of Professor Flux's booth, one of the video displays in the background is a stylized version of the PDP-1 vector display.
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When the minions interrupt the Beatles crossing Abbey Road, the order is incorrect as Paul features second; on the album cover Paul is actually third behind John then Ringo, with George last.
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During the Super Villian Expo, Dr Nefario can be seen showing off his latest invention - the freeze ray gun - to a young Gru and his mother.
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There is a short musical scene after the credits where all the film's characters are shown until they are chased off by the T-Rex from the beginning of the movie.
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When Stuart is presented with the guitar at the end of the film, he plays the guitar solo of Van Halen's "Eruption". Given the movie was set in 1968 while Eruption was released in 1978, which means that Stuart played this nearly 10 years before Eddie Van Halen.
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There are references to Mozart's opera The Magic Flute scattered in the Minions' gibberish, in scenes associated with fire hydrants. Stuart calls the fire hydrant he falls for "Papagena" and later the tune Kevin whistles when he releases the spray from underneath a fire hydrant resembles the first line of "Der Vogelfanger bin ich Ja" from the same opera.
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A young Gru appears at the end of the film. The Minions follow him and have a few "escapades" with him during the end credits.
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When Bob was delivering a speech at the end of his coronation, the music played was Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 in D. This is one of the pieces used for the Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953. This piece is also the most popular music for graduation walking march in the U.S.
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One of Scarlett's paint collections is Andy Warhol's "Campbell's Soup Cans". There are actually thirty-two of these paints. Each of them features a different flavor. The one Scarlett has in her collection is the Tomato Soup, which debuted in 1897 by the Campbell Soup Company. The company is still making this soup right now. Warhol first exhibited these thirty two paints in 1962. Given the movie is set in 1968, it fits into the movie's timeline. These 32 paints are now a part of the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY) permanent collection. You may find them on Floor 2 of MoMA.
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Though her surname is "Overkill", Scarlett kills no one in the movie.
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The Despicable Me theme is only heard twice in the movie at the end when Young Gru appears and when Kevin, Stuart and Bob are breaking into the Tower of London.
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The ticket prices at the Tower of London were shown in decimal currency (and were too expensive for the time). The film is set in 1968, but the UK didn't adopt a decimal currency until 1971.
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In the opening scene the Nelsons' family station wagon bears the New York license plate, "BRN2ROB". New York did not introduce personalized plates until 1977, which were limited to 6 characters and had pattern limitations. The plates on this car could not have been had until 1982 at the earliest, 16 years after the setting of the movie.
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At the beginning of Scarlet's coronation the sun is shining brightly. It continues to shine as she enters and light pours through the windows during the ceremony. As the minions enter the building the sun is just beginning to set in a mostly clear sky. A few moments later the minions exit the building to total darkness and pouring rain.
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After Stuart is given his guitar as a prize, he plays for awhile and then smashes the guitar. Next scene, the guitar is no longer there.
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When Kevin puts out the fuse leading to the TNT with water, he replaces a red American style Fire Hydrant onto a street in London. These style Fire Hydrants are not found in the U.K.
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Stuart attempts to "chat up" a bright yellow fire hydrant, and is later seen with two fire hydrants in a jacuzzi. These are American-style hydrants; in Britain hydrants are simple pipes whose position is marked by a yellow sign with a black 'H'.
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The "Queen of England" urges one of the minions not to get "mad". An older English person would never use the term "mad" in that context; she would say "angry" or "cross".
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The monarch of the UK cannot change the law or constitution on their own initiative, so even allowing that Bob became king by acclimation, he would not have the power change the succession to abdicate in favor of Scarlet.
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As the three minions land in New York, you can briefly see S.S. France probably docked at Pier 88 (official French Line pier at the time). Her funnel colors were red with black tops until 1979, as she was sold to Norwegian Caribbean Line and became S.S. Norway (www.classicliners.net/SSNORWAY.html).
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The fire hydrants in the film are shown with hexagonal (six-sided) nuts, but most fire hydrant nuts/caps are pentagonal (five-sided) and require a special tool to open.
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"The Queen of England" in reality is not just Queen of England, and it's a regularly promoted misnomer in Hollywood that England is the only part of the UK that has a monarchy (with many people believing that "England" and "UK/Britain" are interchangeable terms). Elizabeth II is Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which also encompasses Scotland and Wales. Wales formally united with England in 1536, Scotland's and England's crowns formally united in 1603 with a parliamentary union occurring in 1707. Ireland joined the Union in 1801, with the Irish Free State being established in 1921 and leaving only the Northern States maintaining membership of the UK since.
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At the end of the movie, Stuart plays "Eruption" by Van Halen nearly ten years before Van Halen recorded it. As with other films including Back to the Future, this could simply mean Van Halen heard the solo and decided to copy it from the Minions.
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When the Minions are walking through the sewer in London, they goes up the manhole of Abbey Road and get trodden on by The Beatles. While Abbey Road was recorded in 1969, the image we saw wasn't the one on the album cover, suggesting they could have reshot the album cover in 1969, minus the Minion interruption.
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AKAs Titles:
Argentina - Minions
Azerbaijan - Minyonlar
Bulgaria (Bulgarian title) - œинŒони‚е
Brazil - Minions
Canada (French title) - Les Minions
Chile - Minions
Czech Republic - Mimoni
Germany - Minions
Spain - Los Minions
Finland - Ktyrit
France - Les Minions
Greece - Minions
Hungary - Minyonok
Israel (Hebrew title) - Ha'Minionim
Italy (promotional title) - Suoiuiw
Lithuania - Pakalikai
Latvia - Minioni
Poland - Minionki
Portugal - Mnimos
Romania - Minionii
Serbia - Malci
Russia - œинŒон‹
Sweden - Minioner
Slovenia - Minioni
Slovakia - Mimoni
Turkey (Turkish title) - Minyonlar
Ukraine - Ÿоiпаки
USA (promotional title) - Suoiuiw
Uruguay (3-D version) - Minions
Certifications:
Argentina:ATP / Australia:PG / Austria:6 / Belgium:KT / Canada:G (British Columbia) / Chile:TE / Czech Republic:U / Finland:K-8/5 / France:U / Germany:0 / Greece:K / Hong Kong:I / Ireland:G / Japan:U / Mexico:A / Netherlands:6 / New Zealand:PG / Norway:A / Philippines:PG-13 / Portugal:M/6 / Puerto Rico:PG / Russia:6+ / Singapore:PG / South Korea:All / Sweden:7 / Switzerland:6 / Thailand:G / UK:U / USA:PG (certificate #49722)
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