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Families went bananas for Minions this weekend at the movie theater. “Minions: The Rise of Gru” brought in an estimated $108.5 million in ticket sales from 4,391 screens in North America, Universal Pictures said Sunday.

As the new installment of the Minions franchise opened Friday, AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AMC) stock rose to $14.31 as it neared a 6% jump in value earlier in the session.  AMC shares were trading negative as Friday's trading session drew to a close. 

The plot about 11-year-old Gru (Steve Carell) is mostly just a mechanism for Minion mayhem.

The yellow critters are back, and serving as simple vehicles for slapstick

This new film easily outshines the second and third instalments of the series

When the aliens finally invade, they will find the vestiges of our Minions-based civilization and wonder just what the hell happened here. Having lived through it, I could not possibly begin to explain just how these hot dog-shaped, banana-hued, gibberish-speaking overlords came to infiltrate our culture at every level, storming…

You can’t help but be charmed by the current of weirdness that washes through the computer-animated “Despicable Me” franchise.

This fifth instalment in the Despicable Me animation series spirals back to 1976 and a stolen mega-powerful amulet but the plot is perfunctory and it runs on the faintest of fumes