Are you ready for Gru to rise? Michelle Yeoh followed up her Oscar-winning turn in Everything Everywhere All at Once with a voice role in an animated film that inspired Gen Z to return to movie theaters dressed in their finest attire. It's time to assemble the GentleMinions to talk MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU!
[00:00:00] Season 3, a deep dive into the career and films of actor Michelle Yeoh.
[00:00:33] My name is Mike Smith and joining me on this journey into the YoAverse is my friend,
[00:00:37] co-host and fellow Psychopath.
[00:00:39] Mike to Chris Yeoh.
[00:00:40] How you doing, Mike?
[00:00:41] I am alive.
[00:00:43] Yes.
[00:00:44] Sometimes that's as good as it gets.
[00:00:46] Mike D currently battling active COVID, I believe at the moment.
[00:00:49] Active COVID, yes.
[00:00:50] Right?
[00:00:51] Tested positive a couple of days ago, had a little scratchy throat on Friday and I
[00:00:56] was like, I'm probably okay.
[00:00:57] And then I woke up Saturday and I was like, man, I think I have a fever.
[00:01:01] I should probably take a COVID test.
[00:01:02] And then that son of a bitch was positive.
[00:01:05] That's how it is going to be working from home for the next week or so.
[00:01:08] So I apologize if there's any coughing, sneezing, sniffles, cough drop in my
[00:01:13] mouth sounds in the podcast for this episode.
[00:01:17] I'll do my best to mute, but you know, sometimes a sneeze just sneaks up on you.
[00:01:21] Yeah, it's the way it happens sometimes.
[00:01:22] You're currently battling COVID and I just got home about 45 minutes ago
[00:01:26] from a 10 hour car ride.
[00:01:28] So we're both going to be at our best selves today.
[00:01:30] So I think we'll just, if we can make 15 minutes, great episode.
[00:01:36] I think it'll be slightly longer than that.
[00:01:37] But yeah, I think under an hour, I think we should try to aim for
[00:01:40] for the minions episode.
[00:01:41] Right? Yeah.
[00:01:42] If there's any episode that deserves no time, it might be this one.
[00:01:46] It might be this one.
[00:01:48] Well, actually, Mike, I'm going to add time to this.
[00:01:50] But before we begin today's episode, I want to tell a story.
[00:01:55] Is about a little boy named Gru.
[00:01:57] It is not about Gru.
[00:01:58] It's not about Gru or seeing Gru rise.
[00:02:01] It is about my, it is my own personal experience with the minions, actually.
[00:02:06] So I have been to Universal Studios in Florida twice in my life.
[00:02:11] Two times.
[00:02:11] Have you been to Universal Studios in Florida, Mike?
[00:02:13] I have.
[00:02:14] I've been there a whole bunch of times.
[00:02:15] My grandparents used to live in Orlando, so we would go down and visit them.
[00:02:19] And then of course go to all the parks and stuff.
[00:02:22] So a whole bunch, but not in a really long time, not since, you know,
[00:02:25] probably before high school.
[00:02:27] OK, so the first time that I went was in 2009, which was one year before
[00:02:32] the release of Despicable Me.
[00:02:34] Got it.
[00:02:35] The second time I went was in 2012, two years after the release of Despicable Me.
[00:02:42] Now really a fulcrum point in the history of Universal.
[00:02:47] Truly, yes, absolutely.
[00:02:49] Now Despicable Me, the first feature film from Illumination Studios,
[00:02:53] was a big hit.
[00:02:54] I had a budget of just under $70 million and it made over $500 million
[00:02:59] worldwide and almost immediately the thing people latched on to the most
[00:03:03] in that movie was the minions.
[00:03:05] And so when I went in 2009, minions did not exist.
[00:03:10] They were not a thing as a concept.
[00:03:12] Yes, exactly.
[00:03:13] No one knew what a minion was.
[00:03:14] When I went in 2012, it was clear the studio was going all in
[00:03:21] on minions.
[00:03:22] They were everywhere.
[00:03:23] There were dozens of people dressed up as minions all across the park.
[00:03:26] There was merch and plushies in every store.
[00:03:28] There was a minion parade and there was already a minion ride.
[00:03:33] Two years after the movie came out, there was already a minion's ride
[00:03:37] which actually replaced the Jimmy Neutron ride.
[00:03:39] And I'm still pretty mad about that.
[00:03:41] I'm sorry, Mike.
[00:03:43] And I very specifically remember my dad being very taken with the
[00:03:48] minions like he loved the minions.
[00:03:51] He had no concept of what they were until we got to the park in 2012.
[00:03:55] And so he loved the minions and was really into them.
[00:03:58] And when we got back home, he went into our Netflix Disc Q, which
[00:04:02] RIP that's ending in a week, and got a DVD of Despicable Me
[00:04:08] so he could see where they came from.
[00:04:10] And I remember he and my mom watched it while I wasn't home
[00:04:13] and I came back and asked him what he thought of the movie
[00:04:16] and he was like, it was fine.
[00:04:19] But Bob and Kevin, though.
[00:04:21] But Bob and Kevin, of course.
[00:04:23] But the minions became nothing short of a cultural force.
[00:04:26] The Despicable Me movies continued, which already heavily featured minions
[00:04:32] and then they spun off into their own solo movie
[00:04:34] that was just called Minions in 2015.
[00:04:37] That movie made over one billion dollar.
[00:04:40] What?
[00:04:41] And it is still the highest grossing movie in the Despicable Me
[00:04:44] series to this day.
[00:04:47] So naturally, a sequel was developed.
[00:04:49] But indeed, yes, I mean, how could you not?
[00:04:52] The minions made a billion dollars worldwide.
[00:04:54] You got it. You got a green light.
[00:04:55] A baby. I remember being at FYE even a couple years after that.
[00:05:00] I guess 2013 maybe is when I started working there
[00:05:03] and just every all the merch, the t-shirts, the plot, everything
[00:05:07] in New York in FYE, you know, was all Minions everywhere for.
[00:05:11] Yeah. I mean, 2013 would have also been the year of Despicable Me
[00:05:14] 2 coming out. So it was definitely like a hotbed of Minions time.
[00:05:18] Yeah. Peak Minion. Yes.
[00:05:20] So naturally they developed a sequel.
[00:05:22] This one actually tied more into the Despicable Me movies
[00:05:26] by telling the story of Grooze origin alongside the minions.
[00:05:30] It was originally scheduled to be released in July 2020.
[00:05:34] What do you think happened there?
[00:05:37] COVID happened, they pushed it back to 2021.
[00:05:41] But kids movies, especially we're still not performing all that well.
[00:05:44] So they ended up pushing it another year to July 2022
[00:05:49] when it finally came out.
[00:05:50] And since Michelle Yeo is in it, we have to talk about it.
[00:05:54] It is time for Minions, The Rise of Groo.
[00:05:57] Good night. Good night.
[00:06:00] Yes, yes, yes. Good night.
[00:06:07] There are a lot of other villains in the world
[00:06:10] when I am going to be a super villain.
[00:06:18] This world is mine for the taking.
[00:06:19] Make me king as we move toward a new world order.
[00:06:23] This puny little child thinks he can be a villain.
[00:06:26] I am pretty despicable.
[00:06:31] Not many. Please stop calling me that.
[00:06:44] Time to strike.
[00:06:49] Minions will save me.
[00:06:57] You like picking on little guys, huh?
[00:06:59] I am a master of kung fu.
[00:07:03] Teach a new kung fu?
[00:07:04] Pour smoochy, smoochy.
[00:07:10] I will teach you.
[00:07:16] Now you.
[00:07:22] Kevin, Kevin, Kevin.
[00:07:28] You're out.
[00:07:44] Woohoo. Here we go.
[00:07:45] Why don't we make this a fair fight?
[00:08:03] Minions, the sample.
[00:08:20] So Michelle Yeo stars in Minions, The Rise of Groo as Master Chow,
[00:08:25] an acupuncturist who is also a kung fu master
[00:08:27] who helps the Minions on their journey.
[00:08:30] Steve Carell reprises his role from the Despicable Me franchise as Groo.
[00:08:34] In this movie, a child growing up in the 70s who wants to be a great super villain.
[00:08:39] All of the Minions are played by Pierre Coffin,
[00:08:41] who has voiced them since the beginning
[00:08:43] and who was the co-director of the first four movies in the series.
[00:08:46] All three main Despicable Me's and the first Minions movie.
[00:08:50] So it's a real arturist franchise is what you're saying.
[00:08:54] Without Pierre Coffin directing and starring in these Minions movies,
[00:08:59] we might not have the Minions.
[00:09:00] So we must be grateful, I guess?
[00:09:03] But he actually did not direct this one.
[00:09:06] So I'll talk about that in a little bit.
[00:09:08] He just does the voices?
[00:09:09] He just does the voices, yeah.
[00:09:10] He just does the voices for this one.
[00:09:11] Then you have Wild Knuckles, Groo's favorite super villain
[00:09:15] who becomes his mentor, who is played by Alan Arkin
[00:09:17] in his final film role.
[00:09:19] I was wondering.
[00:09:20] This is the last movie that Alan Arkin will ever be in.
[00:09:23] It's Minions, The Rise of Groo.
[00:09:25] Give it for him, it's what he would have wanted.
[00:09:27] That's how he wanted to go out.
[00:09:29] Once he finished complete, once he completed work
[00:09:32] on Minions, The Rise of Groo, he was like,
[00:09:33] and now I can call that a career.
[00:09:35] Yeah.
[00:09:36] It's time for me to shuffle off this mortal coil.
[00:09:38] He said Minions and he dropped a stuffy of Bob and passed on.
[00:09:44] Exactly.
[00:09:45] From there, Taraji P. Henson plays Bell Bottom,
[00:09:49] the new leader of the Vicious Six.
[00:09:50] The rest of the Vicious Six includes
[00:09:52] Dolph Lundgren as Svendgins,
[00:09:54] Danny Trejo as Stronghold, Lucy Lawless as Nunshuk
[00:09:58] and Jean-Claude Van Damme as Jean-Claude,
[00:10:01] which makes this a Kung Fu Panda 2 reunion.
[00:10:04] Whoa.
[00:10:05] Very weird that Michelle Yeoh and Jean-Claude Van Damme,
[00:10:08] both notable action stars, have been in two movies together
[00:10:12] and they are both as voices in animated kids movies.
[00:10:15] In like animated martial arts action movies.
[00:10:18] Yes.
[00:10:19] That's so weird.
[00:10:20] I will get into it though.
[00:10:21] Anyway.
[00:10:22] Definitely.
[00:10:23] So also reprising their roles from other Despicable Me movies,
[00:10:25] Will Arnett as Mr. Perkins, Steve Kugin as Silas Ramsbottom
[00:10:30] and Russell Brand as Dr. Neferio,
[00:10:35] who he's not been in the news for anything lately
[00:10:38] so we can move right along.
[00:10:40] Whoops.
[00:10:41] Also Julie Andrews in this movie,
[00:10:43] Mary Poppins herself playing Groo's mom Marlena.
[00:10:46] The biker that the Minionado befriends
[00:10:49] is voiced by RZA of Wu-Tang Clan.
[00:10:52] I was wondering who that was.
[00:10:53] Yep, there it is.
[00:10:54] And Wild Knuckles' Three Goons are voiced by John DeBaggio,
[00:10:58] Kevin Michael Richardson and Jimmy O. Yang
[00:11:00] which also makes this a crazy rich Asians reunion as well.
[00:11:03] Look at that.
[00:11:04] So Minions, The Rise of Groo was written by Matthew Fogel
[00:11:08] and directed by Kyle Balda, a former Pixar animator
[00:11:12] who has been with Illumination since the beginning
[00:11:14] who also co-directed The First Minions
[00:11:15] and Despicable Me 3.
[00:11:17] It was released on July 1st, 2022
[00:11:20] and opened number one that weekend
[00:11:22] ultimately grossed over $900 million worldwide
[00:11:25] so just short of the first movie.
[00:11:27] Minions' Fever is still at an all-time high.
[00:11:29] Yeah, yeah absolutely.
[00:11:30] Can't you feel it?
[00:11:32] Yes, also opening that weekend was Mr. Malcolm's List,
[00:11:36] a period drama with Frida Pinto
[00:11:37] which did not make as much money.
[00:11:39] The rest of the top 10 consists of Top Gun Maverick
[00:11:43] still number two and it's sixth week at the box office.
[00:11:45] Wow.
[00:11:46] Still killing it.
[00:11:47] Bazlerman's Elvis, Jurassic World Dominion
[00:11:50] which we talked about on this podcast.
[00:11:52] The Black Phone, Light Year,
[00:11:54] everything everywhere all at once
[00:11:57] at number eight in its 15th week of the box office.
[00:12:00] That's crazy.
[00:12:01] Good for that movie.
[00:12:02] Yeah, an unbelievable box office run that movie had
[00:12:04] and also Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness
[00:12:07] which was number nine in its ninth week of the box office
[00:12:09] which means everything everywhere overtook it
[00:12:11] in terms of just like legs.
[00:12:13] Yeah, yeah.
[00:12:14] And then finally an Indian movie called Jug Jug Geo
[00:12:17] was number 10 of the box office.
[00:12:19] But yeah, cool to see everything everywhere
[00:12:21] still hanging around there.
[00:12:22] It's always fun when the episode's back to back
[00:12:24] and like the last movie we talked about is still around.
[00:12:27] Yes, yeah, absolutely.
[00:12:28] So the IMD Plats and Ops is for Minions,
[00:12:30] The Rise of Gru reads the untold story
[00:12:33] of one 12 year old's dream
[00:12:35] to become the world's greatest supervillain.
[00:12:38] So, Mike D, going into Minions, The Rise of Gru
[00:12:42] I gotta ask are you familiar
[00:12:44] with the Despicable Me series?
[00:12:46] Have you seen any of these movies?
[00:12:48] Did you do any research leading up to this podcast?
[00:12:51] Anything like that.
[00:12:53] Yeah, so I was familiar with the obviously,
[00:12:55] I don't think anybody could have not heard
[00:12:58] of the Minions by now, but yeah,
[00:12:59] just through cultural osmosis
[00:13:00] and I had seen maybe Despicable Me one and two.
[00:13:04] I don't remember definitely the first one
[00:13:06] because I do like I said I worked in FYE
[00:13:07] and I remember maybe it was the second one
[00:13:10] if I don't really, I don't remember which one
[00:13:12] but one of them was on the like Blu-ray player
[00:13:15] in the store that we would have
[00:13:16] one of those movies, yeah.
[00:13:17] It'd be like Frozen or whatever,
[00:13:19] stuff like that would be on there.
[00:13:22] The Parrot one, Rio I think is that that movie?
[00:13:25] Yes, yeah, Rio.
[00:13:26] I don't think it was Parrots,
[00:13:26] I think it was maybe Toucans.
[00:13:27] Toucans, yeah, whatever, one of those movies.
[00:13:29] But yeah, so it'd be like animated family films
[00:13:31] and stuff like that is cause they're rated G
[00:13:34] and it wouldn't have to worry about
[00:13:35] what would be on there.
[00:13:36] And they'd play on a loop
[00:13:37] and they'd just play over and over for weeks at a time
[00:13:41] and you'd be like,
[00:13:42] I gotta just finally watch this movie, right?
[00:13:44] Like you're just going insane
[00:13:46] only paying attention to the same five minutes
[00:13:48] every two hours, just like what the fuck is going on?
[00:13:51] I believe this is how you also watched The Crudes.
[00:13:53] I think that's why this story might seem familiar
[00:13:55] to people who listen to this podcast.
[00:13:57] Yes, yeah, so Crudes is definitely one of those also.
[00:13:59] So I watched either Spickle Me One or Two
[00:14:02] or maybe both, I don't really remember
[00:14:04] in that fashion and then because of that.
[00:14:06] So, and I remember they're being fine,
[00:14:08] like I don't know, I think there's like this,
[00:14:10] you know, we hit like such a cultural saturation point
[00:14:12] with the minions and everything
[00:14:14] and all that, that it's just like,
[00:14:16] everyone is just repulsed by them.
[00:14:20] But I think they're ultimately just like fine.
[00:14:23] I don't know, they're okay, I guess.
[00:14:25] I feel like I definitely had like an adverse reaction
[00:14:28] to minions when they were kind of first happening.
[00:14:30] Like, you know, I was, you know,
[00:14:32] I saw that I went on the minions ride
[00:14:34] right at Universal, it's a fun ride.
[00:14:36] Like I got the appeal.
[00:14:37] Snow Jiminyutron.
[00:14:37] Yeah, Snow Jiminyutron.
[00:14:39] What's weird is that the minions ride
[00:14:40] is the exact same ride.
[00:14:41] They just like, you know,
[00:14:42] they basically put a new paint over it.
[00:14:44] Yeah, they put a new coat of paint over it.
[00:14:46] And I know the Jiminyutron,
[00:14:46] I was replacing something else,
[00:14:48] which I think they did the same thing to.
[00:14:50] But I remember like the ride,
[00:14:51] like moves in the exact same way,
[00:14:53] just like, you know, they redid the entire thing.
[00:14:55] Amazing.
[00:14:56] But the Jiminyutron ride was fun
[00:14:57] because it also took you through
[00:14:59] other Nickelodeon cartoons.
[00:15:00] Like there's a bit in the ride
[00:15:02] where you're on Jiminyutron ship
[00:15:03] and you're blasting through SpongeBob
[00:15:04] and fairly hot parents and all that stuff.
[00:15:07] It was great.
[00:15:07] It was a good time.
[00:15:08] I miss it.
[00:15:09] And now I think it's still the minions.
[00:15:11] Probably is.
[00:15:12] There's probably a lot more minions stuff
[00:15:14] since 2012 when you were there.
[00:15:15] Yeah.
[00:15:16] So yeah, that was me going into Rise of Gru
[00:15:18] was like, yeah, okay, whatever.
[00:15:20] I mean, here's the thing.
[00:15:22] I think the minions are funny and I can't help it.
[00:15:25] I don't understand what it is about them.
[00:15:26] I think it's the weird,
[00:15:29] simlish language that's like French and Spanish
[00:15:33] and gibberish just all mixed together, right?
[00:15:35] That is just like inherently fun for a little bit,
[00:15:40] you know?
[00:15:41] I think there's a point where you're like,
[00:15:43] okay, I get it.
[00:15:44] But they're cute.
[00:15:46] I don't know.
[00:15:47] It's silly.
[00:15:48] It's a funny concept.
[00:15:48] I think we're, you know, it's been stretched
[00:15:50] to its potential limits.
[00:15:53] However, there is a point where you're like, okay,
[00:15:56] we're done, I think with the minions, you know?
[00:16:00] Yeah.
[00:16:00] So that was me loading up Rise of Gru
[00:16:03] and I don't know.
[00:16:05] Maybe it's because I have COVID
[00:16:06] and I watched it while I'm like delirious and sick
[00:16:09] but like, I don't know.
[00:16:10] It's kind of fun.
[00:16:11] You know, like I haven't got enough time.
[00:16:13] It's dumb.
[00:16:15] It's mostly just a bunch of set pieces
[00:16:16] and I was really just comparing it
[00:16:18] to the experience of watching Boss Baby
[00:16:21] for the Go Bloom season last year.
[00:16:25] This is aces compared to Boss Baby.
[00:16:27] So like, I'm all here for it.
[00:16:30] It's very strange.
[00:16:31] I think there's a lot of extra shit going on
[00:16:33] in terms of like all the like stunt casting
[00:16:35] of the vicious six, which I didn't even know.
[00:16:37] I didn't even bother to look at who any of them are
[00:16:39] because none of them have more than one or two lines
[00:16:41] other than Bell Bottom and-
[00:16:43] Oh, White Knuckles.
[00:16:44] Yeah, White Knuckles.
[00:16:45] Yeah, Allen Arkham.
[00:16:46] Other than the two of them,
[00:16:47] they just all the other henchmen have like,
[00:16:49] ha ha, like stuff like that,
[00:16:52] where it's like they're not really saying sentences
[00:16:54] or like saying lines that you might be like,
[00:16:56] is that Delflungren?
[00:16:57] Is that the any trait?
[00:16:58] Like you would never like what?
[00:17:01] So that's bananas that they even bothered
[00:17:03] to pay those people for that.
[00:17:05] I'm not like that they got them to do that.
[00:17:06] I don't know.
[00:17:07] I can't really think of any other illumination studio things
[00:17:10] off the top of my head.
[00:17:11] Is it like Secret Life of Pets or something like that?
[00:17:13] Yeah, Secret Life of Pets is one of them.
[00:17:15] So here's the thing.
[00:17:16] So I had seen the first Despicable Me.
[00:17:18] I have not seen two and three
[00:17:20] and I've not seen the first Minions.
[00:17:22] Wait, hold on before we do that.
[00:17:23] I was saying that I haven't thought of any,
[00:17:25] I can't really think of any other illumination things
[00:17:27] because the title card,
[00:17:29] it starts with like illumination studios, right?
[00:17:32] And then it's sort of like the Pixar thing or whatever.
[00:17:34] But a Minion comes like swinging in
[00:17:37] and crashes into the word illumination
[00:17:39] and only the letters left that spell out Minion.
[00:17:44] And I was like,
[00:17:44] oh this whole studio is like a money laundering front
[00:17:47] for the Minion.
[00:17:47] Like that was the only reason this exists.
[00:17:49] Oh yeah, 100%.
[00:17:50] I mean, Illumination has become
[00:17:52] I think one of the most successful animation companies
[00:17:55] in recent years, largely built on the Minions.
[00:17:58] Absolutely they spun off the Minions their own thing.
[00:18:00] I think when you watch any illumination movie,
[00:18:03] whenever you see the illumination logo,
[00:18:05] even if it's not a to speak me or Minions related thing,
[00:18:08] there's usually a Minion that's part of the logo
[00:18:10] at the beginning.
[00:18:11] Incredible.
[00:18:12] That's just part of it.
[00:18:13] That's their version of the Pixar lamp, you know?
[00:18:14] Right, right, right.
[00:18:15] Is this branded thing.
[00:18:16] Yes, as a Secret Life of Pets is illumination,
[00:18:20] the Singh movies are illumination.
[00:18:22] Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:18:23] And most recently,
[00:18:25] the Super Mario Brothers movie was illumination
[00:18:28] which also grossed a billion dollars,
[00:18:30] was huge obviously.
[00:18:31] And they've done a lot of other stuff too.
[00:18:33] There was the animated Grinch movie a couple years ago
[00:18:35] with Benedict Cumberbatch as the Grinch,
[00:18:37] which is a weird thing where it sounds like,
[00:18:39] oh, Benedict Cumberbatch playing the Grinch.
[00:18:40] Great casting, he has a great voice for it.
[00:18:42] And then you watch the trailer and he's doing
[00:18:43] a weird nasally voice that's not his own voice.
[00:18:45] And it's like, why don't you cast Benedict Cumberbatch
[00:18:47] as the Grinch for if this is the take on?
[00:18:49] Yeah, bizarre.
[00:18:50] Super weird.
[00:18:52] But it all started with the Spickle Me,
[00:18:53] it was their first movie.
[00:18:54] It was a big hit and it was clear
[00:18:56] that the Minions were kind of the breakout characters
[00:18:58] in them so they went all in on those.
[00:19:00] And so Minions became the thing.
[00:19:03] And I have been mostly removed from it.
[00:19:05] I think Spickle Me came out when I was 17
[00:19:09] and I was like, oh, I'm a little too old for this.
[00:19:11] I'm beyond this.
[00:19:12] And so I didn't see the first one
[00:19:14] until a couple of years ago because my girlfriend likes it
[00:19:17] and she made me watch it at one night
[00:19:19] and you know, it's fine, it's okay.
[00:19:21] But I've not seen anything past it
[00:19:23] until Minions Rise of Gru.
[00:19:26] And so this is a whole series of movies
[00:19:29] that I just had no interest in.
[00:19:32] Despite liking a lot of the voice actors
[00:19:34] and all that kind of stuff.
[00:19:35] And honestly, most of the illumination stuff
[00:19:36] that I've seen, I'm just like, this isn't for me.
[00:19:40] It feels very much like a pan,
[00:19:42] like even more so than Dreamworks at its most base.
[00:19:46] Dreamworks has some great films, I think.
[00:19:49] Some really great stuff.
[00:19:50] Kung Fu Panda 2, for example.
[00:19:51] Kung Fu Panda 2 is great, Had a Trainin' Dragon.
[00:19:52] Great, I love those.
[00:19:54] But Dreamworks had a pandering streak
[00:19:58] that I think every once in a while
[00:19:59] kind of comes out again, like Shark Tail or whatever.
[00:20:01] A pandering streak.
[00:20:06] Yes, a pandering streak.
[00:20:09] But you know what I mean?
[00:20:10] It feels like they like pander to kids
[00:20:12] with like pop culture references
[00:20:13] and celebrity voice names and all that kind of stuff.
[00:20:15] And I think illumination does that in most of their movies.
[00:20:18] And I haven't seen one of their movies
[00:20:21] that I'm like, yeah, this is the one.
[00:20:23] Like they haven't had their Had a Trainin' Dragon
[00:20:25] where I'm like, this transcends all age groups.
[00:20:27] Yeah, no Prince of Egypt.
[00:20:28] Yeah, exactly.
[00:20:29] And they're mostly made for kids under 10.
[00:20:32] And that is the thing.
[00:20:34] But here's the thing, kids under 10
[00:20:36] have grown up with the Minions
[00:20:37] and are now, you know, Disciple Me came out in 2010.
[00:20:40] That was 13 years ago,
[00:20:42] which means that there's like an entire generation
[00:20:44] of children who grew up on Minions.
[00:20:46] And as a result, Gentle Minions came into being.
[00:20:50] Oh, is that what that was all about?
[00:20:52] So yeah, so I did wanna talk about this
[00:20:54] in relation to this movie.
[00:20:55] But this movie made $900 million of the box office
[00:20:59] which doesn't seem crazy considering how big
[00:21:03] the previous movies had been.
[00:21:04] Like Minions one had made a billion and stuff.
[00:21:07] But I think this one was projected to make a lot less
[00:21:10] because of COVID, because kids movies
[00:21:12] have been performing that well, all that kind of stuff.
[00:21:14] And it got pushed back two years and all that.
[00:21:16] Like it has Minions fever, finally died down.
[00:21:20] And then it became like a viral trend on TikTok.
[00:21:22] I think it started with like some kids in Australia
[00:21:25] who decided, you know what?
[00:21:25] We're gonna dress up
[00:21:26] and all go out to the midnight release of the Minions.
[00:21:29] And then people started doing it.
[00:21:31] And it was a lot of like Gen Z kids
[00:21:32] who would put on their finest clothing
[00:21:35] and go see the Minions in theaters
[00:21:37] and it like boosted the box office.
[00:21:39] And it was a weird thing where I think some people were like,
[00:21:41] are they doing this like ironically
[00:21:43] because it's Minions and it's kind of dumb?
[00:21:45] And I think that's an element of it.
[00:21:46] But I think there is like a sincere like,
[00:21:48] no we grew up on the Minions, we love this.
[00:21:50] And we're just gonna do a weird fun thing for it.
[00:21:53] I think we've all suffered some massive psychic damage
[00:21:57] over the last five, six years.
[00:22:00] That is the only logical explanation.
[00:22:02] And I can't quite articulate anything more than that
[00:22:05] other than that we're all suffering
[00:22:07] and maybe the Minions are the cure.
[00:22:09] And that's really it, you know?
[00:22:11] It could be that.
[00:22:11] Yeah, I mean, you gotta think back on July, 2022.
[00:22:15] And you know, I mean, there's a few movies
[00:22:17] that had been big hits at this point.
[00:22:19] You had everything everywhere
[00:22:20] and you have Top Gun Maverick.
[00:22:21] Like they're like kind of doing that.
[00:22:23] They saved the movies, the movies are back baby.
[00:22:24] But I think you also have to give some credit
[00:22:26] to the Minions, they brought people back.
[00:22:29] And like before this, kids movies had not been doing well.
[00:22:34] Like I can't think of any between 2020 and now
[00:22:37] and this that made $900 million, you know?
[00:22:41] Yeah, especially cause at that point
[00:22:43] and even now too, we're like the,
[00:22:45] what was that, I can't even remember the last,
[00:22:47] the name of the most recent Pixar movie.
[00:22:49] Oh, Elemental.
[00:22:51] Yeah, where we've kind of all been trained
[00:22:53] for like, whatever that'll be out on Disney
[00:22:55] or whatever that'll be on VOD and two E2 Cares.
[00:22:57] You know, especially for kids or families,
[00:23:00] you know, you gotta pay all this money
[00:23:01] to take all of your kid, your whole family
[00:23:03] to the movies, just wait
[00:23:05] and you can pay $20 and see it at home.
[00:23:07] Yeah.
[00:23:08] And Elemental actually ended up like, you know,
[00:23:10] legging out just enough where it ended up becoming
[00:23:12] sort of a minor hit.
[00:23:14] Oh really?
[00:23:15] Yeah, it did.
[00:23:16] But it had like a really bad opening weekend
[00:23:17] but then it kind of just like kind of kept going
[00:23:20] which was kind of nice to see.
[00:23:22] I haven't seen the movie yet.
[00:23:22] I know it's on Disney Plus now.
[00:23:24] But yeah, there was a year where, you know,
[00:23:27] Seoul went straight to Disney Plus
[00:23:28] and Turning Red went straight to Disney Plus
[00:23:30] and Luke, like a lot of Pixar movies especially.
[00:23:32] Right.
[00:23:33] You know, they would just go straight there.
[00:23:35] I know that I think Trolls 2 went straight
[00:23:37] to Peacock or something
[00:23:38] or it was a premium video on demand.
[00:23:39] Like there was that, which that's,
[00:23:42] when I talk about DreamWorks Pandering Street
[00:23:43] gets the Trolls movies.
[00:23:44] That is basically what I'm talking about.
[00:23:46] I saw the trailer for Trolls 3 recently
[00:23:48] and I was like, this sucks.
[00:23:49] I hate this so much.
[00:23:52] But yeah, I think, you know,
[00:23:54] the families have been kind of trained
[00:23:56] to just wait until they're home,
[00:23:57] like, you know, they're home
[00:23:58] because it's not a long window anymore.
[00:24:00] Right.
[00:24:01] And so Minions ended up being the one that waited.
[00:24:03] Like they pushed back two years
[00:24:05] so they can get a good audience for it.
[00:24:06] It really is the top gun maverick of kids' movies
[00:24:09] out of that year.
[00:24:10] For all the evil, the Minions perpetrate
[00:24:15] in the movies,
[00:24:16] metatextually they're forced for good.
[00:24:19] You know?
[00:24:21] Absolutely.
[00:24:22] So that all said, Minions, there was a grew.
[00:24:23] I mean, what was your take on the mic?
[00:24:24] Did you like, I mean, you said you kind of liked it.
[00:24:27] I kind of was kind of into it, right?
[00:24:28] Yeah, I was kind of into it.
[00:24:29] It's just dumb.
[00:24:30] Anything that is, I don't,
[00:24:32] I watched this maybe 24 hours ago.
[00:24:36] I can't really remember anything that happened to it.
[00:24:38] It happened within the movie.
[00:24:40] You're in a COVID fog.
[00:24:40] I understand.
[00:24:41] Yeah, yeah.
[00:24:42] That's something to say it's because COVID,
[00:24:44] but like while it was going on,
[00:24:45] I was having a fun enough time.
[00:24:46] I was laughing a little bit.
[00:24:48] I was chuckling anytime,
[00:24:50] I guess RZA called Otto a soul brother.
[00:24:53] I was like, this is weird, but I'm kind of into it.
[00:24:56] That was silly.
[00:24:58] When you hear Alan Ark and talk,
[00:25:01] you're just, he's just sounds like the oldest man.
[00:25:06] So like that alone was like kind of weirdly funny,
[00:25:08] but also very dark.
[00:25:09] I don't think I knew that it was his last movie,
[00:25:11] but I kind of assumed.
[00:25:13] So just with all the timing and stuff,
[00:25:15] but yeah, I don't know.
[00:25:16] It's fun.
[00:25:17] It was fun enough.
[00:25:17] I looked at Letterboxed
[00:25:20] and saw that you gave it like one and a half stars
[00:25:22] and it was like, what the hell?
[00:25:24] And then saw a friend of the show,
[00:25:26] Solvee gave it three and a half stars.
[00:25:28] And I was like, I'm in.
[00:25:29] I mean, I'm gonna ride or die.
[00:25:31] Minions, the riders have grew with Solvee
[00:25:33] and I gave it a three.
[00:25:35] That might be COVID.
[00:25:36] I don't know.
[00:25:37] I don't know if I'll ever come back
[00:25:38] and revisit this and give it a proper reassessment
[00:25:40] air quotes, but right now as of 24 hours ago,
[00:25:43] I had a fun enough time.
[00:25:45] It wasn't Boss Baby.
[00:25:46] So that's like worth two stars alone.
[00:25:48] I don't know.
[00:25:49] I kind of prefer Boss Baby too.
[00:25:51] Psycho, you mad man.
[00:25:54] I don't know.
[00:25:54] I think this movie is,
[00:25:56] I think it's barely a movie.
[00:25:58] Absolutely, 100%.
[00:25:59] I have no way to refute anything you're gonna say.
[00:26:04] Well, 100% agree.
[00:26:05] I'm totally with you, three stars.
[00:26:10] You know, I think it's barely a movie.
[00:26:12] I think the Minions themselves,
[00:26:14] like I'm sort of with you.
[00:26:15] I think the Minions work as comedic devices.
[00:26:19] Yeah.
[00:26:19] You know, I think they can be funny
[00:26:21] and I think they are pretty funny
[00:26:23] in that first Despicable Me movie
[00:26:25] when they are the side characters
[00:26:26] to the larger story going on.
[00:26:28] I think that's when they pop.
[00:26:30] And so to me, again, having zero context
[00:26:34] for the rest of this series,
[00:26:35] like I have not watched two or three
[00:26:37] or the first Minions.
[00:26:39] I don't know.
[00:26:40] I think the Minions themselves
[00:26:41] get kind of greeting after a while.
[00:26:44] And I think when you focus a movie
[00:26:46] that's just on the Minions,
[00:26:47] that's a lot to just kind of buy in with those characters.
[00:26:50] I also do think it's weird that like,
[00:26:53] I don't know, to me, the appeal of spinning off the Minions
[00:26:55] is that you don't have to do anything with Gru, right?
[00:26:58] I was gonna bring that up, yeah, especially in this one.
[00:27:00] Like the Despicable Me movies are,
[00:27:02] that's supposed to be Gru and his family
[00:27:04] and he wants to be a supervillain
[00:27:05] and all that kind of stuff.
[00:27:06] And then the Minions are side characters and those.
[00:27:08] Theoretically, again, I haven't seen two and three.
[00:27:10] I'm guessing they played major roles.
[00:27:12] They must be.
[00:27:13] I'm guessing they're huge.
[00:27:15] I feel like the appeal of the first Minions
[00:27:17] is the fact that like, hey, the Minions are unattached
[00:27:20] from Gru and his family.
[00:27:21] You can just have the Minions run loose.
[00:27:23] And from what I understand,
[00:27:24] that's kind of what that movie is.
[00:27:25] Like it's a prequel that takes place,
[00:27:27] I think, like thousands of years in the past.
[00:27:29] So I went on the wiki.
[00:27:31] Okay, so you are familiarized yourself with Minions?
[00:27:36] Mostly just with the brief timeline
[00:27:37] because I was very interested,
[00:27:40] and of course there's the whole moral debate.
[00:27:42] I think mostly spawned by your tweet
[00:27:45] about the double feature you did
[00:27:46] when you watched Come and See,
[00:27:47] the most harrowing movie of all time, followed by
[00:27:51] Rise of Gru.
[00:27:52] And then I followed up with Minions,
[00:27:53] which that might be why I rated this movie so low.
[00:27:57] 100%, the height.
[00:27:58] It's total possibility.
[00:27:59] Pure heights of artistic cinema and then Rise of Gru.
[00:28:02] So I was like, they must, they have to acknowledge this.
[00:28:05] Right?
[00:28:05] Like the whole Minions whole thing is that they serve
[00:28:08] the most evil person in the world at any given time.
[00:28:12] That's like the whole shtick
[00:28:13] or they're always seeking to have a boss.
[00:28:16] And so apparently Minions, the first one,
[00:28:19] they're depicted as like bumbling idiots
[00:28:22] and they always accidentally kill their boss.
[00:28:24] So like they serve the T-Rex in prehistoric times
[00:28:27] and push them into a volcano.
[00:28:28] And they get to Napoleon.
[00:28:30] I'm assuming it's just like a montage.
[00:28:32] I don't know, I haven't seen it.
[00:28:33] They serve Napoleon, he suffers his defeat in Russia
[00:28:37] and they're so ashamed at their long history
[00:28:39] of failing their bosses.
[00:28:40] They go into hiding until 1968.
[00:28:44] And like, can't imagine why.
[00:28:47] So why they had to specify a date in the 60s
[00:28:53] for when they come back into hiding.
[00:28:54] Like don't worry, the Minions did not cause the Holocaust.
[00:28:57] They just not cause the Holocaust.
[00:28:59] But they don't acknowledge any of the other, you know,
[00:29:02] and the other stuff that they might have served
[00:29:04] in the 60s.
[00:29:05] But so they don't cause the Holocaust.
[00:29:06] They come back into 60s
[00:29:07] and then I guess find Gru in the 70s at the end of that
[00:29:11] or whatever, I don't really know.
[00:29:12] Right, yeah.
[00:29:13] But I know that movie ends with them meeting Gru, right?
[00:29:16] Yeah, it just specified like following their Napoleon's
[00:29:20] defeat they go into hiding until 1968.
[00:29:22] It's just like incredible.
[00:29:26] But they don't, you know, so I guess he's been
[00:29:27] serving Gru and not Al-Qaeda or whatever.
[00:29:32] I don't know how they, I don't know when these movies
[00:29:34] in the modern to speak with me when they take place.
[00:29:37] I figure, you know, since this is Gru growing up in the 70s,
[00:29:40] I'm sure the modern ones are just present day.
[00:29:42] They still are, yeah.
[00:29:43] So I guess in 2010, like, you know,
[00:29:46] maybe in this universe, 9-11 didn't happen.
[00:29:48] Who knows?
[00:29:50] So yeah, I think that's absolutely hilarious
[00:29:52] that you absolutely know somebody was in a pitch meeting
[00:29:55] like fuck, we gotta figure out what they're doing
[00:29:57] during the World War II.
[00:30:00] Somebody is talking about it.
[00:30:02] Yes, yeah, 100% that conversation absolutely happened
[00:30:06] and I'm glad that you brought that.
[00:30:09] But yeah, so kind of what I was saying is that,
[00:30:12] you know, the Minions, I feel like the appeal
[00:30:14] of spinning them off into their movies
[00:30:15] you can be unattached from any of the Gru stuff
[00:30:17] and you can just have the Minions running wild.
[00:30:20] Could be hanging out with Napoleon.
[00:30:21] Yeah, hanging out with Napoleon.
[00:30:22] I mean, I could see a version of this series
[00:30:24] where just like, you know, every movie is the Minions
[00:30:28] messing up the evil plans of some like
[00:30:30] would be dictator, right?
[00:30:31] Right.
[00:30:32] Like that could be a pretty fun series.
[00:30:36] Just recreate like doing Gladiator but with Minions.
[00:30:39] Just like doing historical dramas.
[00:30:42] And then instead they kind of just like kind of weave back
[00:30:44] into the Despicable May movies
[00:30:46] and so now you're seeing the rise of Gru
[00:30:48] and you're seeing Gru as a child
[00:30:49] and how the Minions gonna have helped him
[00:30:51] get to where he is in the actual Despicable May movies.
[00:30:55] So I don't know, I found that to be a little weird.
[00:30:58] Like I feel like if you're gonna do that
[00:30:59] then it's like, well, now like half this movie
[00:31:01] is about Gru and half it's about the Minions.
[00:31:04] And I do think the Minions work best as side characters
[00:31:07] but they're really more like co-leads of this movie
[00:31:10] along with Gru and it kind of feels like
[00:31:12] you can kind of just do away with Gru.
[00:31:14] Just go all in on the Minions
[00:31:16] if you're gonna go all in, you know?
[00:31:17] Yeah, yeah, it definitely splits the narrative
[00:31:19] like literally separates them.
[00:31:21] The two, like a classic sequel.
[00:31:23] The Empire Strikes Back of Minions films.
[00:31:25] Yeah, absolutely.
[00:31:26] Gru's kidnapped and the Minions
[00:31:27] have to go save him kind of thing.
[00:31:29] Which is whatever.
[00:31:30] But you know, honestly, it just comes down to
[00:31:33] I'm gonna steal this, this was I think one of the
[00:31:35] Letterbox reviews that I saw.
[00:31:37] Which was just put the Minions in a wig and it's funny.
[00:31:42] The Minions disguising themselves as humans.
[00:31:46] Commedic gold, I don't know.
[00:31:47] That whole sequence when they're
[00:31:49] trying to get the flight to San Francisco
[00:31:51] so they like disguise themselves as pilots
[00:31:53] and a flight attendant.
[00:31:55] That is pretty funny.
[00:31:56] That's all great.
[00:31:57] I did enjoy that.
[00:31:58] I think the Minions, like I said
[00:31:59] maybe better side characters but also at their best
[00:32:01] and you kind of just let them be like
[00:32:03] anarchic Looney Tunes self sort of.
[00:32:05] Yeah, absolutely.
[00:32:07] Yeah, when they're trying to do like dramatic moments
[00:32:09] and stuff it's like what is going on?
[00:32:10] Yeah, why are we doing this?
[00:32:12] Yeah, why are we doing this?
[00:32:12] But they do undercut it.
[00:32:13] There's that one scene in particular,
[00:32:15] the flashback when the Minions like find Gru
[00:32:18] and they're like, they're trying to convince him
[00:32:20] to let him inside and be his Minions
[00:32:23] and they're like out in the rain
[00:32:24] and it's thunder and lightning and cry.
[00:32:26] They're all crying.
[00:32:27] And then they like cut to the guy
[00:32:28] standing next to the window with a hose,
[00:32:30] spraying down all the Minions.
[00:32:32] So it looks like it's raining out.
[00:32:33] I don't know, it's weird that they tease banana
[00:32:36] a bunch of times in this movie
[00:32:38] but don't ever actually say banana, right?
[00:32:41] It is a little weird.
[00:32:42] Yeah, I mean,
[00:32:42] do they never actually say banana in the movie?
[00:32:44] I don't think so.
[00:32:45] I can't remember.
[00:32:46] They go to like the world's largest banana.
[00:32:48] There's a couple other things
[00:32:49] than the casket full of bananas at the end.
[00:32:52] Right, yeah.
[00:32:53] But I don't think anybody ever says banana.
[00:32:55] It's like kind of like set in the hun solo.
[00:32:58] Like you know.
[00:33:00] So because this is a prequel.
[00:33:02] It's so weird.
[00:33:03] It does a lot of those like prequely things
[00:33:05] where it's like setting up the things later.
[00:33:07] But because I only have like vague memories
[00:33:09] of the first one, they weren't really landing for me.
[00:33:11] Yeah, 100%.
[00:33:13] You know, and so there,
[00:33:14] I did have a moment watching the movie
[00:33:16] where I was like, oh, okay.
[00:33:18] Wild Knuckles is gonna be the old band
[00:33:21] from the first movie called Me,
[00:33:23] like Gru's mentor in that movie.
[00:33:25] Like the guy who works with Gru to do the moon.
[00:33:27] And like I see what's going on here.
[00:33:29] And then that's not what happens.
[00:33:30] And it turns out that's Dr. Nefario
[00:33:32] and his name has always been Dr. Nefario
[00:33:35] and I just didn't remember that.
[00:33:36] Yeah, I didn't remember that at all honestly.
[00:33:38] And also explains why Russell Brand was in this movie
[00:33:41] because it's like, well he's been in it since 2010.
[00:33:44] Like guess, bring him back.
[00:33:46] You know, I mean, obviously he was casting this
[00:33:48] before all the allegations came out.
[00:33:50] But it's also like a thing where like Russell Brand
[00:33:52] is not getting cast in movies anymore.
[00:33:54] Why is he in Minions too?
[00:33:55] Yeah.
[00:33:56] Especially if they recorded it years before it released, right?
[00:34:00] If it was delayed from 2020 and all that stuff.
[00:34:02] It's even further away
[00:34:04] from whenever he might have been relevant.
[00:34:06] It was strange to you, you know,
[00:34:08] watch the opening credits like literally
[00:34:10] I think two days after all those allegations dropped
[00:34:12] and it's like Russell Brand.
[00:34:13] Yeah, it's like women watch Crash Attacker 2
[00:34:16] in the Weinstein Company's logo show.
[00:34:17] And we're like, hey.
[00:34:19] Jump scare, yeah, the opening credits.
[00:34:22] Yeah, that said actually the opening credits
[00:34:23] I think the best part of the movie.
[00:34:24] It's like a James Bond-esque kind of parody
[00:34:28] with the Minions flopping around.
[00:34:29] So that was when that happened,
[00:34:31] I was like, I gotta know what Mike Smith
[00:34:34] thought about this movie.
[00:34:35] Like just from the opening credits
[00:34:37] is when I went to Letterbox and saw you
[00:34:39] had given it 1.5 stars and was like, no.
[00:34:44] And I didn't let that sway my enjoyment of the film, Mike.
[00:34:47] I'm glad.
[00:34:48] I'm glad that you got more enjoyment
[00:34:49] out of the Minions than I did.
[00:34:50] Like I said, I enjoyed elements of it.
[00:34:52] I just don't think it holds together as a movie at all.
[00:34:55] And I think the energy that the Minions do have
[00:34:57] like last maybe like interspersed
[00:34:59] like maybe 10 minutes throughout this 90 minute movie.
[00:35:01] It is short, it is 87 minutes.
[00:35:04] Thank God.
[00:35:04] There's that which is nice.
[00:35:07] But we haven't even talked about this yet.
[00:35:09] Michelle Yeo, she's in the movie Mike.
[00:35:11] She is in the movie barely though I think.
[00:35:14] Yeah, I mean based on the trailers
[00:35:17] I thought that she was gonna be in a lot more of it.
[00:35:20] I specifically remember seeing her in the trailer.
[00:35:22] Like obviously not like hearing her voice
[00:35:24] but like seeing her character
[00:35:26] and doing the whole thing with the acupuncture
[00:35:27] and like moving the needles around the guy's body
[00:35:29] to make it slap the Minions and all that kind of stuff
[00:35:31] which is a funny physical comedy bit, I enjoyed that.
[00:35:33] Yeah, yeah, to rack a coonie him
[00:35:36] via acupuncture needles.
[00:35:39] Yes.
[00:35:39] And yeah, I watched this movie also 12 hours
[00:35:42] after I watched Audition, the Takashi Mikae movie.
[00:35:47] So lots of...
[00:35:47] You had your own weird double feature here.
[00:35:50] Yeah, well not double feature
[00:35:51] but just lots of weird acupuncture needle crossover
[00:35:54] between two different ends of a spectrum there.
[00:35:57] You know I've actually never seen Audition.
[00:36:00] And I did buy the Blu-ray a while back
[00:36:02] I was having the chance to watch it yet
[00:36:03] but add it to your list.
[00:36:04] Add it to the con, all right.
[00:36:07] If you want, I don't know.
[00:36:08] I do want to but I don't know
[00:36:09] if I wanna torture you with it but I will.
[00:36:12] Yeah, so she's barely in this movie
[00:36:13] and she, I don't know, yeah her character
[00:36:16] I do remember in the trailer, you know
[00:36:18] it being portrayed as like a major plot point
[00:36:20] at the Minion, well not whatever,
[00:36:22] major plot point air quotes for the Minions movie
[00:36:24] but like they have to learn Kung Fu
[00:36:27] to save crew and all this stuff
[00:36:28] and it seems like it'd be the whole back half
[00:36:30] of the movie or whatever.
[00:36:32] It's like a 10 minute sequence set piece.
[00:36:34] Yeah, they have a little montage,
[00:36:36] they do some things,
[00:36:37] they have the little crouching tiger sequence
[00:36:39] with the or you see Michelle Yo's character
[00:36:40] jump through the trees
[00:36:41] which is kind of a fun reference
[00:36:43] and also weirdly there's no way
[00:36:45] this could have been on purpose
[00:36:46] but there is a rock with googly eyes in the movie.
[00:36:49] There is.
[00:36:51] A weird connection to everything everywhere all at once.
[00:36:54] Yeah, you're right.
[00:36:55] And yeah, I guess timing wise
[00:36:56] whenever they would have made this movie
[00:36:58] I don't know if that could have now
[00:36:59] because they came out within two months of each other
[00:37:01] so yeah, there's no way.
[00:37:02] Yeah, there's no way
[00:37:03] that was a deliberate reference
[00:37:04] but still pretty fun coincidence.
[00:37:05] Pretty fun coincidence.
[00:37:06] That happened, yeah.
[00:37:07] But what do you think of her performance
[00:37:08] in the movie Mike?
[00:37:09] I mean, what did you think of her voice role here?
[00:37:12] She's fine.
[00:37:13] I think it's more fun sort of just for us
[00:37:17] in like a meta way like, oh, that's Michelle Yo
[00:37:19] rather than this being like anything cool
[00:37:21] or stand out as far as within the context of the movie.
[00:37:23] I think she's doing good.
[00:37:24] It's cool.
[00:37:25] Yeah, I don't know.
[00:37:26] It's cool to see Michelle Yo get to do another one
[00:37:28] of these sort of mentor teacher Kung Fu things, I guess.
[00:37:32] Which I guess we haven't seen much
[00:37:33] of the Kung Fu teacher thing
[00:37:34] but like the position of authority or whatever.
[00:37:36] Yeah, I don't know.
[00:37:37] There's not really a ton there
[00:37:38] other than just like is Michelle Yo
[00:37:40] they're sort of just referencing her again
[00:37:43] like the sequence in everything everywhere
[00:37:45] all at once where she just becomes Michelle Yo
[00:37:47] in the real world and she becomes our teacher.
[00:37:50] And it's kind of funny, you know, I don't know
[00:37:53] the minions are bad at doing anything
[00:37:55] and that's, and she's very strict about it
[00:37:57] and she's slapping them with a stick and stuff.
[00:38:00] You get it.
[00:38:01] Yeah, they're doing the karate kid,
[00:38:02] the posing on the thing and you know, all that stuff.
[00:38:06] And then her advice, I mean,
[00:38:08] there's a funny moment like when she's like,
[00:38:10] okay, you are ready or she said something
[00:38:13] like something like you are ready.
[00:38:15] And the minions like, all right, we're ready.
[00:38:16] And they like disappear and it's like,
[00:38:17] no, your training is ready for today.
[00:38:19] There's still so much more we have to do.
[00:38:21] Yeah.
[00:38:22] You know, and that's pretty funny.
[00:38:23] And but I do like that, you know, her advice kind of comes
[00:38:25] in at a critical moment in the climax of the movie
[00:38:28] when like they remember at whatever it was she said.
[00:38:30] Find your inner beast.
[00:38:32] Find your inner beast.
[00:38:33] I watched this movie a week ago
[00:38:34] and it's evaporated from my mind.
[00:38:36] Yes.
[00:38:38] There is a really funny beat to that later on in the movie
[00:38:40] when they're having that big, big square off
[00:38:43] where it's Wild Knuckles versus the vicious six.
[00:38:45] And they've like all transformed into the animals
[00:38:48] from the zodiac, right?
[00:38:51] Oh yes.
[00:38:52] Dragon and the bull and all that stuff.
[00:38:54] And they're like...
[00:38:54] And it's like a Chinese New Year
[00:38:55] that's happening, right?
[00:38:57] They're like, she's a bell bottom is like,
[00:38:59] yeah, well you and what army?
[00:39:00] And then it's like the minions that are like a chicken
[00:39:03] and a rabbit.
[00:39:04] Like he's like, I guess this army.
[00:39:06] And then they all square off
[00:39:07] and it's just kind of silly loony tune shit from there.
[00:39:10] And that was fun.
[00:39:11] Yes, I did have a...
[00:39:13] There's one moment where a minion turns into a chicken
[00:39:17] and then it hatches another minion chicken.
[00:39:20] Like it hatches an egg, an egg that hatches
[00:39:23] and it becomes a...
[00:39:24] There's a minion chicken inside.
[00:39:26] And I'm wondering if that just turned back
[00:39:28] into a regular minion or whatever.
[00:39:30] Cause I don't remember like a minion chicken
[00:39:32] in Stickable Me.
[00:39:34] No, I don't remember that either.
[00:39:35] And I saw one Letterbox review or whatever that was like,
[00:39:38] it's nice that the minions are all non binary
[00:39:42] because they're all like have male or at least like Kevin
[00:39:44] and Bob like the main ones in Otto
[00:39:46] and right, like the ones that are like actually named.
[00:39:48] Yeah.
[00:39:48] Have male names.
[00:39:50] But then that one turns into a chicken
[00:39:51] and lays an egg.
[00:39:52] So must be a female feminine parts, I guess.
[00:39:55] I don't know.
[00:39:56] I guess non binary, yeah.
[00:39:58] Which is hilarious.
[00:40:00] And yeah, I think there's a lot of things.
[00:40:03] It's sort of like cars, you know?
[00:40:04] Like, don't let's not.
[00:40:06] Don't unpack any of that.
[00:40:07] Yeah, yeah.
[00:40:08] That's what I think too, Art, about it.
[00:40:08] 100%.
[00:40:10] How do you think this fits into the roles
[00:40:12] we've seen Michelle Yell play so far, Mike?
[00:40:13] Well, definitely they're like overtly referencing,
[00:40:15] of course, Crashing Tiger, like you said.
[00:40:17] And I can't remember the one movie
[00:40:19] that the Mummy, Indiana Jones thing...
[00:40:22] Oh, The Touch.
[00:40:23] The Touch.
[00:40:24] You got The Touch!
[00:40:26] That one?
[00:40:27] Yeah, that was produced by her company
[00:40:30] because this is about the Vicious Six,
[00:40:33] stealing like an ancient Asian artifact to control evil
[00:40:36] and it's this kind of treasure hunt thing.
[00:40:38] So maybe think of that.
[00:40:39] It has, it's got five minutes of that
[00:40:44] in the beginning of this movie
[00:40:45] when the Vicious Six go and steal that thing,
[00:40:48] steal the artifact, and then it's not about that at all.
[00:40:51] But maybe think of that.
[00:40:51] And yeah, Kung Fu Panda, of course,
[00:40:53] and the other voice roles we've seen from Yell.
[00:40:56] Well, I think that is the only other voice role
[00:40:58] I've seen from Michelle Yell so far,
[00:41:00] just Kung Fu Panda 2 and now this.
[00:41:03] I think you're right.
[00:41:04] Yeah, I think it is.
[00:41:05] We have some more coming up, I think.
[00:41:07] Yeah, there's definitely, I mean next week,
[00:41:08] we have a week of more coming up.
[00:41:10] Yeah, absolutely.
[00:41:11] Unless the retirement plan's out already,
[00:41:13] I don't know, but we'll, most likely next week,
[00:41:16] yeah, it's another Michelle Yell voice role,
[00:41:18] which I think, yeah, obviously Kung Fu Panda 2
[00:41:20] is kind of what I think of here.
[00:41:21] But also, I think this sort of feels like
[00:41:24] post-Crazy Rich Asians, Michelle Yell's star,
[00:41:27] like she was one of the main highlights of that movie.
[00:41:30] Like the thing that people kept talking about
[00:41:31] most after Crazy Rich Asians was
[00:41:33] how good Michelle Yell was in it.
[00:41:35] And so I think her star power increased a lot
[00:41:38] in American cinema and Hollywood.
[00:41:40] And so as a result, it's like, hey,
[00:41:41] I'm gonna jump onto a lot of things
[00:41:44] that will capitalize on my name
[00:41:47] and make a lot of money doing very easy work.
[00:41:49] And I think Minions 2 and next week's movie
[00:41:53] both fall into that category.
[00:41:54] We stan a paid queen.
[00:41:57] Yes, you know.
[00:42:00] Get that paycheck.
[00:42:01] Yeah, absolutely.
[00:42:01] I mean, you think about it.
[00:42:02] I mean, this year, 2022,
[00:42:04] she is in everything ever all at once,
[00:42:06] which smaller independent movie that ends up,
[00:42:09] breaking out big, Winsby's Peckster with the Oscars.
[00:42:12] But also in Minions Rise of Gru,
[00:42:14] which grossed almost a billion dollars in the box office.
[00:42:16] So yeah, doing great.
[00:42:18] Oh, she's got points, you know?
[00:42:19] Yes, hopefully.
[00:42:20] So any other scenes in Minions Rise of Gru
[00:42:23] that you wanna bring attention to, Mike,
[00:42:24] I do wanna give a shout out to the fact
[00:42:26] that I did enjoy that it takes place in 1976.
[00:42:28] And the movie does have
[00:42:30] a lot of references to 70s stuff
[00:42:32] and kind of does some work to kind of make it feel
[00:42:34] like it takes place in the 70s.
[00:42:36] And I think my favorite thing is that
[00:42:39] Gru and the Minions go to the theater to go watch Jaws.
[00:42:41] And that was fun.
[00:42:42] And they release a fart bomb
[00:42:44] and get everybody out of the theaters,
[00:42:45] they can watch it on their own.
[00:42:46] And they go watch Jaws, yeah.
[00:42:48] That's great.
[00:42:49] Good for them.
[00:42:50] Yeah, you know, I didn't even think of that.
[00:42:51] It's a universal property or sub-scenario, whatever.
[00:42:56] Whatever that shit is with the limitation.
[00:42:58] So like they can just play the footage from Jaws
[00:43:01] in the movie.
[00:43:02] I was like, how'd they get away with it?
[00:43:03] I mean, you hear the audio of it.
[00:43:04] All the music and disco and the funk
[00:43:06] and all that stuff is pretty funny.
[00:43:07] Is it Shining Star at Starts Earth or whatever the...
[00:43:10] I think it does show Shining Star, yeah.
[00:43:12] And there's a moment when he's leaving the record store
[00:43:14] because it's like the record store
[00:43:16] is also the evil villains like Lair.
[00:43:18] Criminal records.
[00:43:19] Yeah, criminal records is pretty good.
[00:43:21] And somebody, he's like escaping it
[00:43:22] cause he stole the thing from the vicious six
[00:43:24] and it's like, oh, Frampton comes alive.
[00:43:25] Great record.
[00:43:27] Just fun references.
[00:43:28] Yeah, and they're like, you're up to no good
[00:43:31] or you're no good, I think is the like passphrase.
[00:43:33] It's like the Linda Ronstadt single,
[00:43:35] you're no good is like the thing he gives him
[00:43:38] to go listen to in the booth.
[00:43:40] Let's see, what else?
[00:43:40] What other minions specific things are fun?
[00:43:43] I like when they're getting chased by the henchmen
[00:43:47] and the auto or whatever, one of them trips
[00:43:50] and it's like, cause they're cylinders
[00:43:52] and rolls all the way down the hill.
[00:43:54] And then the other ones are just like, oh yeah.
[00:43:55] And they just like rag doll themselves
[00:43:57] and take off.
[00:43:59] I don't know, when they do the,
[00:44:00] when they lean into the looty tunes stuff, that's fun.
[00:44:04] Like the Bugs Bunny in a dress,
[00:44:05] like that kind of thing with the minions and wigs.
[00:44:08] It's inherently funny.
[00:44:10] Yes, yeah.
[00:44:10] No, I did enjoy all that stuff.
[00:44:12] Also I enjoyed that a lot of this took place
[00:44:14] in San Francisco.
[00:44:15] I don't know.
[00:44:15] Which, hey, you know, shout out Shang-Chi
[00:44:18] also kind of a connection back to that movie.
[00:44:20] And also weirdly, I did not intend for this to happen
[00:44:24] but I watched Minions Rise of Gru
[00:44:26] as part of like a mini movie day I had for myself.
[00:44:28] And I say mini movie day,
[00:44:29] I watched four movies like in a row.
[00:44:32] And the first one was Come and See.
[00:44:34] Jesus Christ.
[00:44:35] As you know, and then I followed up
[00:44:37] with Minions Rise of Gru.
[00:44:38] And then the next two movies I watched,
[00:44:40] if only Come and See also did this, but it doesn't.
[00:44:43] But I ended up doing-
[00:44:44] It was San Francisco in the 70s.
[00:44:46] Yeah, I accidentally did a San Francisco triple feature.
[00:44:49] Really?
[00:44:50] Yeah, I watched Minions Rise of Gru
[00:44:52] and then I watched Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home.
[00:44:55] Okay.
[00:44:55] And then I watched the game, David Fincher's The Game,
[00:44:58] all three movies which take place in San Francisco.
[00:45:01] And like when I started up Star Trek IV,
[00:45:04] I was like, oh hey, in San Francisco,
[00:45:06] just like in Minions, that's weird.
[00:45:07] And then I started watching the game
[00:45:08] and I was like, what the fuck is happening?
[00:45:11] What's going on?
[00:45:12] It's just like, I mean, San Francisco I think is a,
[00:45:14] I mean, I've been there once, it's a cool city.
[00:45:17] And I think it's a uniquely cinematic city
[00:45:19] in that it's all uphill.
[00:45:21] And so I think by setting it in that,
[00:45:23] like placing it in that setting,
[00:45:24] you have like these very slanted angles
[00:45:27] and you have a good environment to do kind of runaway car chases
[00:45:30] and all that kind of stuff.
[00:45:32] And it's also a city that you don't see on film
[00:45:34] as often as like Los Angeles or New York.
[00:45:37] So it's like, oh, it is.
[00:45:38] It was just a weird coincidence
[00:45:39] that it was San Francisco, you know?
[00:45:41] Yeah, absolutely.
[00:45:42] More movies should be set in different places.
[00:45:44] You know?
[00:45:45] Yeah, I don't know.
[00:45:47] It's cool to see stuff be a little unique.
[00:45:48] I mean, I guess it's an animated movie, whatever.
[00:45:50] San Francisco has just got a weird vibe to it, you know?
[00:45:53] It's a strange place.
[00:45:54] Yeah, absolutely.
[00:45:55] Have you been to San Francisco, Mike?
[00:45:56] I have been to San Francisco.
[00:45:58] I think only once.
[00:46:00] I don't remember.
[00:46:01] I've been there once.
[00:46:02] I was there for Warp Tour a couple of years ago.
[00:46:05] The final Warp Tour, the 25th anniversary,
[00:46:07] like kind of an end of an era Warp Tour thing.
[00:46:10] And so I was mostly at the concert,
[00:46:12] but there was a couple of hours where me and my friend
[00:46:15] were like, oh, we'll go see City Hall.
[00:46:17] And then, oh, we can like, there's a place,
[00:46:19] like three quarters of a mile away that is like,
[00:46:23] you know, it's a burger place.
[00:46:25] We can get some food, whatever.
[00:46:26] And it was the most strenuous walk
[00:46:28] I've ever had in my entire life.
[00:46:29] Was it just uphill the whole time?
[00:46:30] Yeah, it was uphill the entire time
[00:46:31] and like a really steep hill.
[00:46:34] But that's just how the city is, you know?
[00:46:37] And I remember like not really expecting that.
[00:46:40] I mean, like, yeah, I guess we should have Ubered
[00:46:42] a mile to get to this place.
[00:46:45] But we didn't.
[00:46:46] We ended up doing the most strenuous walk of my entire life.
[00:46:49] You must have been so hungry, good thing you went.
[00:46:51] Yeah, that's true.
[00:46:52] That's very true.
[00:46:53] All right, any other scenes, Mike,
[00:46:54] in Minions Rise of Grube, before we start wrapping this up?
[00:46:57] I will be already talked about the,
[00:46:58] I think the standout like comedic scene
[00:47:00] is the Minions flying the plane to San Francisco.
[00:47:04] Yeah, that was a good scene.
[00:47:05] I did enjoy the Minions flying the plane.
[00:47:07] And I forget what song, right?
[00:47:09] One of them's like trying to actually,
[00:47:11] they, it felt like a catch me if you can reference
[00:47:16] when they like are walking through the terminal
[00:47:18] within the all dressed up like pilots and stuff.
[00:47:19] I don't know.
[00:47:20] And one of them is actually trying to read the manual
[00:47:22] and the other one's like,
[00:47:23] Pasha or whatever he says in Minion, I guess.
[00:47:27] Yeah, in the weird Minion language,
[00:47:28] like you said, is like a combination
[00:47:30] of gibberish, Spanish and French.
[00:47:32] Yeah, and then just starts rolling around
[00:47:34] on all the buttons and switches
[00:47:36] and singing, I forget what song that is.
[00:47:40] Some classical song.
[00:47:43] Yeah.
[00:47:44] And then just like hits the button
[00:47:45] and they launch and take off
[00:47:46] and it's this insane like vertical thing.
[00:47:49] They're flying all over corkscrewing and stuff.
[00:47:51] And all that's very fun and silly.
[00:47:53] I enjoyed that.
[00:47:54] Yes, I enjoy that scene too.
[00:47:56] I was probably too harsh with one and a half,
[00:47:58] but I wouldn't go any higher than two, I think.
[00:48:01] You're not wrong.
[00:48:02] I did want to mention the end of the movie as well
[00:48:04] where they defeat the vicious six
[00:48:05] after the vicious six has been turned into all these
[00:48:06] like dragons and monsters and stuff.
[00:48:09] And then they finally defeat them
[00:48:10] and Wild Knuckles seems to die
[00:48:13] and they go to Wild Knuckles' funeral
[00:48:15] and Gru's speaking at the funeral.
[00:48:17] And all the Minions are doing like a chorus of
[00:48:21] you can't always go what you want by the Rolling Stones.
[00:48:22] But in the Minion language.
[00:48:24] Yeah, exactly.
[00:48:25] And so it's like
[00:48:26] bad, who do that?
[00:48:27] Who do that?
[00:48:28] Who do that?
[00:48:29] Yeah.
[00:48:30] Which is pretty funny.
[00:48:31] I did enjoy that.
[00:48:32] That is great.
[00:48:33] They do that a lot in it.
[00:48:34] And I think this is sort of what you were talking about
[00:48:36] before the like pandering stuff
[00:48:38] where it's like we're just going to directly
[00:48:40] do something from pop culture.
[00:48:42] Like Shrek is going to sing Smash Mouth or whatever.
[00:48:45] You know, it's like that's DreamWorks obviously
[00:48:47] but that kind of effect where it's like
[00:48:49] this is, they're referencing a thing I know directly
[00:48:52] in this world, crazy.
[00:48:53] Yeah.
[00:48:54] I mean weirdly, and I don't know if this is just me
[00:48:56] it feels more fine when it's something
[00:48:58] that's like 40 years old.
[00:49:00] Oh, I think you're correct.
[00:49:01] Yeah.
[00:49:02] Like one of my issues
[00:49:04] I have not watched the sing movies
[00:49:06] but like, you know those movies are like,
[00:49:08] oh, now we're like it's all these like famous people
[00:49:10] like you know, singing the hits of
[00:49:12] who's the most recent artist I can think of?
[00:49:14] Post Malone or whatever.
[00:49:15] Like.
[00:49:17] I almost said T.I.
[00:49:18] And I was like, he hasn't had a hit in like 15 years.
[00:49:20] What?
[00:49:21] What a weird poll for you to have made.
[00:49:23] I know.
[00:49:25] Yeah.
[00:49:25] Isn't Justin Timberlake,
[00:49:26] oh no, he's in the Trolls movies I think right?
[00:49:28] He's in the Trolls movies which are the same thing.
[00:49:30] Yeah.
[00:49:31] So there's that.
[00:49:32] And that's the Trolls movies
[00:49:34] are what originated the song
[00:49:35] Can't Stop the Feeling I think
[00:49:37] which is a song I truly hate.
[00:49:39] It's really hate that one.
[00:49:40] Because you just can't stop that feeling.
[00:49:42] Yeah, it really hate that.
[00:49:43] I can't stop that feeling.
[00:49:44] You're right.
[00:49:45] Also actually, but I think the first Minions
[00:49:46] I'm pretty sure it was the first Minions
[00:49:48] that had the Pharrell song Happy.
[00:49:50] Is that Minions?
[00:49:51] I think it's either Minions or the Sikl Me Too.
[00:49:53] It's one of those.
[00:49:53] Also a song I really can't stand.
[00:49:55] That song was on the loop at FYE,
[00:50:00] the music loop,
[00:50:01] which for those of you who have never worked
[00:50:03] at a retail store with a corporate designated music thing,
[00:50:09] you think they might give you two hours,
[00:50:14] Nah, they give you like 45 minutes maybe.
[00:50:16] Give them 45 minutes and make them suffer.
[00:50:20] Yeah, and Happy was on there.
[00:50:21] And I wanted to die.
[00:50:23] That yeah, From to Sikl Me Too 2014.
[00:50:26] Yeah, it comes from this franchise.
[00:50:29] So there's that, yeah, Happy Sucks,
[00:50:31] not a fan of that song.
[00:50:32] I also worked at FYE around the same time as you did.
[00:50:35] And so I also had those music loops,
[00:50:37] but I worked there during Christmas time.
[00:50:39] Like I was a seasonal employee.
[00:50:42] So it was mostly like the Christmas songs
[00:50:44] that you can't stand hearing over and over again,
[00:50:45] but the loop did include Christmas and Hollis by Run DMC,
[00:50:50] which is a song I'll never get tired of.
[00:50:51] So every 45 minutes,
[00:50:52] I was just completely useless to anybody working there
[00:50:57] because I was like just going to myself,
[00:50:58] it's Christmas time in Hollis Queens.
[00:51:03] The best and worst time was the summer loop
[00:51:06] because it had all bangers, it was great music.
[00:51:10] But they would give you one loop for the summer.
[00:51:12] Normally it would be once a month,
[00:51:14] you'd get a new CD and it'd be a new loop.
[00:51:16] But for the summer you got one in May,
[00:51:18] play it till September bitch.
[00:51:21] And it was the worst.
[00:51:23] Yeah, fair enough.
[00:51:24] I feel like we're off of the minions at this point, Mike.
[00:51:26] Should we start wrapping this up?
[00:51:27] I think we're done.
[00:51:28] Okay, minions rise of grew.
[00:51:32] The minions are not for me, that's the thing.
[00:51:35] That is my takeaway.
[00:51:36] I begrudge no one their love for the minions
[00:51:38] and I think I would enjoy them more in smaller doses
[00:51:42] but watching a full movie of just the minions
[00:51:44] and also watching grew rise.
[00:51:48] Meet me and Solve will stay minions strong.
[00:51:51] Yeah, there you go, hashtag minions strong.
[00:51:54] I do have some letter box reviews
[00:51:56] for minions the rise of grew.
[00:51:58] Here's a two star review from Brody.
[00:52:01] This movie starring Michelle Yeo features a subplot
[00:52:04] about a rock with googly eyes coincidence, I think not.
[00:52:08] Whoa, there it is.
[00:52:10] Absolutely, here's a three star review from cinema Joe.
[00:52:14] I told myself that if minions rise of grew made me laugh
[00:52:18] I would not be able to give this movie
[00:52:19] less than three stars.
[00:52:22] It made me laugh in the opening credits.
[00:52:24] Sure the movie's at times overwhelmingly chaotic
[00:52:27] with a paper thin plot
[00:52:28] but there's genuine moments of hilarity
[00:52:30] that I ultimately didn't hate my time with the movie.
[00:52:33] In a world where Netflix puts out Marmaduke
[00:52:36] I happily embrace minions rise of grew.
[00:52:39] What a weird dig at Marmaduke to me.
[00:52:41] Yes, that is a weird one although I think,
[00:52:44] so when I saw that I was like, oh, Marmaduke
[00:52:47] then movie from like 2010
[00:52:49] that like Owen Wilson played Marmaduke
[00:52:51] but no I think Netflix actually released
[00:52:52] like an animated Marmaduke movie like last year as well.
[00:52:55] You know what I also thought of that Owen Wilson movie
[00:52:57] when you said that and that I think just shows our age.
[00:53:03] Neither of us saw Marmaduke I assume right?
[00:53:06] No, I don't think so.
[00:53:07] Yeah, I did not see that either.
[00:53:08] That was also same years to come with me.
[00:53:10] I was a little too old to go see Marmaduke.
[00:53:12] Fair.
[00:53:13] Here's a two star review from Zed.
[00:53:15] I have never seen an audience
[00:53:17] so emotionally invested in a movie
[00:53:19] until the whole crowd started jumping up and down
[00:53:21] screaming and applauding
[00:53:23] after the minions successfully land a play.
[00:53:29] I think that would have been like the last act of Triple R
[00:53:31] just ripping the seats out of the floor.
[00:53:33] Just going insane.
[00:53:35] This is the Gen Z version of Triple R.
[00:53:37] Yeah, absolutely.
[00:53:38] That's what it is.
[00:53:39] Here's a one and a half star review from a haunted hippie.
[00:53:42] I may never recover from the amount of minion ass
[00:53:45] I've seen on this day.
[00:53:47] There is naked minion in this.
[00:53:49] There's a lot of nude minions
[00:53:51] which I think is a staple of the Despicable Me series.
[00:53:53] I feel like that happens a lot throughout the movie.
[00:53:55] Oh yeah, you're right.
[00:53:57] And finally I got one more.
[00:53:58] It's a two star review from Philbert Dye.
[00:54:01] I do not know how to review this movie.
[00:54:03] I do not know if I should write about it at all.
[00:54:06] I can tell you that I saw it
[00:54:08] and it defies whatever conventions one might have
[00:54:10] about what is good and what is bad.
[00:54:13] There is only minions
[00:54:14] and they are yellow indestructible
[00:54:16] and they kind of speak Spanish.
[00:54:18] At one point in this movie
[00:54:19] they are being taught kung fu
[00:54:20] by a character voiced by Michelle Yeo.
[00:54:23] At another point, one of them has turned into a rooster.
[00:54:25] It could be noted this rooster lays eggs
[00:54:28] and that is not what roosters do
[00:54:30] but why would you note that?
[00:54:32] Why would you consume that mental space
[00:54:33] by pointing out that roosters don't lay eggs?
[00:54:35] It's the minions
[00:54:36] and they will be the subject
[00:54:37] of terrible Facebook memes for decades to come.
[00:54:40] It's the minions
[00:54:41] and they don't care if you like them or hate them.
[00:54:43] They've already breezed the collective psyche
[00:54:45] of this terrible world
[00:54:46] and they are inevitable.
[00:54:47] Banana, banana.
[00:54:52] Yeah, this guy gets it.
[00:54:53] Yeah, I think he has become fully minion-pilled as we were.
[00:54:59] You know what?
[00:55:00] They are pill-shaped
[00:55:01] so I think you're out of something there.
[00:55:02] Also a good point.
[00:55:03] All right.
[00:55:04] And I think that's gonna take us to the end
[00:55:06] of our review of minions,
[00:55:07] the rise of grooves, might be.
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[00:56:22] I keep hearing that.
[00:56:24] And I know that was like the goal and all that stuff.
[00:56:26] And I don't, I'm so interested.
[00:56:30] Yeah, I can tell you,
[00:56:31] I weirdly was aware of this movie existing years ago.
[00:56:37] Like this movie was in development hell for a long time
[00:56:40] and I believe it was originally called Blazing Samurai.
[00:56:43] But ultimately it got released
[00:56:45] as Pause of Fury, The Legend of Hank.
[00:56:48] I've been secretly also waiting for this episode.
[00:56:52] Just to see what the hell this is.
[00:56:54] And I hope it becomes my personality.
[00:56:55] I wanna be the legend of Hank guy.
[00:56:59] I hope I have a similar reaction
[00:57:02] at baseline to Rise of Gru.
[00:57:05] I just do it all in,
[00:57:07] constantly standing a Legend of Hank on Twitter.
[00:57:09] Yeah, move over, Shalyn, Popey to messy temple.
[00:57:13] It's where a Legend of Hank podcast now.
[00:57:14] Yes, absolutely.
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