Dir: Kyle Balda. Starring: Steve Carell, Taraji P Henson, Michelle Yeoh, RZA, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lucy Lawless, Dolph Lundgren, Danny Trejo. U, 88 minutes.
I do feel sorry for the Minions. Surely, when those severely jaundiced sentient tic tacs first hit screens in 2010’s Despicable Me, no one envisioned that they’d one day be hyper-weaponised into Boomer Facebook memes. Now it’s hard to look at their little, gormless expressions and not immediately picture some nauseating pun like “a balanced diet is chocolate in both hands” floating by their head. The cultural omnipresence of the Minions has backfired spectacularly. Now, a decent chunk of the population considers them an active threat.
