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Minions: The Rise Of Gru Review - A Fun, Yet Slight Despicable Me Prequel
Back in 2010, a franchise was born when so-called supervillain Gru (Steve Carell) dipped his toes into fatherhood with Illumination's Despicable Me. Now, 12 years later, Gru gets something of an origin story in director Kyle Balda's Minions: The Rise of Gru, which also serves as the sequel to the first Despicable Me prequel. Released in 2015, Minions was an unexpected box office smash, becoming the then-second-highest-grossing animated movie of all time. Pandemic delays have pushed The Rise of Gru back considerably, and now it finally arrives. Whether it was worth the wait will ultimately be determined by the audiences it was made for, but it is certain that this is a sequel that does manage to surpass the original. While Minions: The Rise of Gru still can't entirely justify itself, it does provide a far more heartfelt and fun outing than its predecessor.