Do you 1) love bananas 2) live to party and 3) want to pledge allegiance to the world’s number one super villain, Gru? If you answered yes to those questions, then step right through Gru’s front door and get ready because yellow is about to become your new favorite color. Oh yeah, we’re becoming Minions.
Think you’re Minion material? Get ready for all things Minion recruitment on Despicable Me Minion Mayhem at Universal Orlando Resort.
THE STORY
Despicable Me 2 grossed $368 million in the United States and Canada, and $602.7 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $970.8 million. Deadline Hollywood calculated the net profit of the film to be $394.5 million, placing it third on their list of 2013's 'Most Valuable Blockbusters'. Watch the full movie, online. 4 / 5 stars 82% 81%. 2010 95 min TVPG Kids & Family, Animation, Comedy, Action/Adventure, Kids Feature Film 4K. Skip to main content.
A zap from Doctor Nefario’s Minion gun isn’t enough to become a TRUE Minion. No no, before you can join Gru and the gang on their schemes –– ahem, adventures –– you must go through Minion training. Margo, one of Gru’s three adopted daughters, welcomes you to the Minion Training Ground where you will, and I quote, be tested on your “strength, speed, and ability to not die.”
After surviving a number of obstacles — including prickly cacti, massive fly swatters, lasers, and huge boxing gloves — it’s time to put your problem solving and teamwork skills to the test. This challenge is a breeze until you’re asked to “resist the banana.” Spoiler alert, you don’t resist the banana and things start to literally fall apart, landing you in a restricted area.
Cue the mayhem.
THE QUEUE
As you enter the ride building, you’re entering Gru’s home, where you’ll get to learn the ins and outs of Minion recruitment. Start studying now, because there will be a Minion quiz to see if you’re really prepared for the Minion life. Through the queue you’ll get a little tour of the Gru household with trips to the living room and laboratory before the big transformation.
FRIENDLY WARNING:Beware of fart guns. This is Gru’s house, afterall.
THE RIDE
It’s the anniversary of the girls’ adoption day and after a little sprinkle of guilt by Edith, Gru let’s them be in charge of training. The girls do fabulously. You? Not so much. After the banana distraction fiasco, things start to go awry and your Minion training becomes a true test of staying alive all while trying not to ruin Agnes’ adoption anniversary gift for Gru. Do you and your Minion training class make it through successfully? Looks like you’ll just have to strap on your Minion goggles and find out.
- FUN FACT: All the character voices on the attraction were performed by the same voice actors from the original film. So everytime you hear the iconic “GORLS”, it’s THE one and only Gru.
RIDE DETAILS
The ride is a one-room motion-simulation-based experience with 4-D effects. Each Minion transformation pod fits eight soon-to-be Minions at heights of at least 40 inches tall. Anyone can experience the Minion mayhem as stationary ride vehicles are available with wheelchair access, assistive listening and closed captioning. While this attraction is indoors, you are likely to encounter a couple of elements including wind, mist, water, and uh, some scents, along the way.
GIFT SHOP
The fun doesn’t have to stop after you leave the Minion training facility — stop by Super Silly Stuff to stock up on Minion gear and things oh SO FLUFFY. If you’re looking for gru-approved gadgets, this is the place to get them.
- FUN FACT: If you’ve ever wanted a fluffy Unicorn like the one Agnes received at Super Silly Fun Land, do I have good news for you. In other news, there are also fart guns. Use your discretion on that one.
- Oh, and for our Passholders, don’t forget to use that discount of yours. *wink*
MEET THE MINIONS
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After the ride, you exit to a Minion dance party where, if you’re lucky, you can shake your overalls with a Minion.
Didn’t get to see one of your favorite yellow henchmen at the dance party? Don’t you worry, there are plenty of opportunities to meet the Minions around Universal Orlando Resort.
- Universal’s SuperStar Parade: There’s always a party at Universal Studios Florida and Universal’s SuperStar Parade is no exception. Grab your dancing overalls and goggles because the Universal Studios streets are transformed into a giant stage decorated with floats, dancers, and music that’ll have you dancing all day. You can see Gru, Agnes, Margo, Edith, Vector, and the Minions from the Universal Pictures/Illumination Entertainment movie, Despicable Me.
- The Despicable Me Character Breakfast at Loews Royal Pacific Resort: If you’re visiting on a Saturday, take a visit to the Tahitian Room at Loews Royal Pacific Resort to enjoy a breakfast buffet and meet some of your favorite Despicable Me characters including Gru, Margo, Edith, Agnes, and the Minions.
- And yes, banana nut muffins are on the menu. Could you imagine a Minion breakfast without them?
PRO TIP: Download the Universal Orlando Resort Mobile App to view meeting times for your favorite theme park characters including those from Despicable Me at Universal Studios Florida.
VACATION LIKE A MINION
For the complete Minion experience, book a stay at Loews Portofino Bay Hotel. While the parents enjoy their privacy in the beautiful master bedroom, the kids can have fun in a connecting kids suite decked out in Minion-approved decor. Whether you decide to sleep in a twin-sized rocket or the king-sized bed is up to you. The 650 square feet of space sleeps five and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to sleep in Gru’s laboratory just once.
Are you ready for your Minion transformation? Great! Grab a banana and let’s get ready for training!
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June 2, 2021Do you want to get a fair idea of what a storm the Minions have caused in the market? You’d normally guess a Pixar franchise to be the highest-grossing animated franchise in the world. Well, you are in for a surprise since it’s the minions, with a total gross of over $3.7 Billion over the course of four movies, with ‘Toy Story’, a franchise that has been around for more than two decades, coming in second, short by nearly $700 Million. Both the franchises hold the reputable record of being the only animated franchises to have two films in the billion-dollar club, a record I feel is soon going to be shared by ‘Frozen’, but until then, it’s nothing short of a hecking achievement.
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Moving away from the comparisons, whether you would agree with it or not, there is something about the adorable yellow French/ gibberish babbling pill shaped minions that keeps the audience coming back in heaps for more, every time any outing featuring them hits the screens. There are plenty who don’t get the mania, with “Why are Minions so annoying?” even trending as a search on Google some time ago; but the truth largely is that Illumination opened up the genie’s cave with these films, especially the minions, and while the film collections are all but fathomable, we mere mortals cannot simply begin to imagine what the franchise must be minting in when it comes to merchandise sale, not to mention the various mobile and console games tying into the films and the several short films that are periodically released.
Ergo, the minions and ‘Despicable Me’ by extended definition aren’t going anywhere, and the films will keep coming until there is an audience for them, which there is always going to be in the form of kids and their families. Two films featuring the minions are in development right now: one, a direct sequel in the Despicable Me franchise and the other in the separate prequel spin-off franchise, Minions, titled ‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’. Here, we discuss the former.
Despicable Me 4 Plot: What Is It About?
If it isn’t clear as of now, I am an unapologetic admirer of the minions. They are irresistible to me, and I have thoroughly enjoyed all the films featuring them (yes, even the solo spin-off) except the last one, that for the lack of a better word felt contrived and out of its element. Yet still, that’s not to say that it wasn’t enjoyable, even if the signs of fading are visible in the third one, and the reason that they still work, at least for me, would be the minions, again.
Let’s be honest here, you don’t walk into these films expecting to be fed the most cerebral plot lines; you expect to be entertained and it would simply be needless to say that through all four films, they are the ultimate scene stealers. Steve Carell is a personal favourite here, and I love everything he has done. There is possibly no one better to play Gru, and his chemistry with the three girls is what forms the heart of these films. But, make no mistake, the money is where the minions are.
We still only have official confirmation on the sequel happening, which was a given since ‘Despicable Me 3’ ran to become a Billion dollar film, but no details on plot have been revealed yet. For starters, reflecting on the initial trilogy of films, it seems as though Gru’s family, with Lucy as his wife, Edith, Margo, Agnes, his mother, and Dru, his twin brother, who by the end of the third film is lured back to the world of villainy, now operating with Gru, is complete, and that there isn’t any respectable storyline worth minting here for some time to come.
Miranda Cosgrove, who voices Gru’s eldest daughter, Margo, had a few ideas regarding where the franchise could head. One of them involved the girls going evil and following in Gru’s footsteps, not in a way so as to discard what the three films have established, but in a way that creates some serious internal conflict for Gru to solve. Of course, the presence of an external threat would only alleviate things further, as with every movie in the franchise. “I think it would be so cool if all three of the girls were like Gru and they took on some of his super villainy! I think that would be cool”, Cosgrove said. Other than that, Cosgrove also had the idea that Margo, Edith and Agnes’ birth parents could turn up to add to the proceedings, especially since we know practically nothing of the girls’ life before they were adopted by Gru.
Despicable Me 4 Cast: Who Is In It?
Invariably so, the entire gang will have to return if they are to make this one a grand outing just as the last three ones. You can thereby expect Steve Carell as Gru and Dru both; Kristen Wiig as Lucy Wilde; Miranda Cosgrove as Margo; Dana Gaier as Edith; Nev Scharrel as Agnes; Steve Coogan as Silas Ramsbottom; Julie Andrews as Marlena; Gru and Dru’s mother; and the multi-talented Pierre Coffin, who has been instrumental in the development of the franchise, directing all four films, voicing all the minions, especially the prominent ones in Mel, Kevin, Stuart and Bob, to reprise their roles from previous films. Since none of the films have had recurring villains, you can expect this one too to have new casting when a potential villain is revealed. Or better still, when a script is finalised.
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Despicable Me 4 Crew: Who Is Behind It?
Both Kyle Balda and Pierre Coffin have been instrumental and irreplaceable in the development of this franchise, with Coffin being in the director’s chair since the first movie but will be sitting out for ‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’, replaced by Brad Ableson, while Balda has been there since ‘Minions’, and will be co-directing the spin-off sequel with Ableson. My guess is that in an attempt to ensure exclusive and fast production, Illumination and Universal would be going with two separate teams to avoid temporal overlaps. While Kyle Balda is going to be intensively involved with the development of ‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ along with writer Brian Lynch from ‘Minions’, Pierre Coffin would be heading the next Despicable Me project, with Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio returning from the previous three movies. Of course, this is all speculation as of now, and we will have to wait a fair bit before any confirmations can be given out on the same.
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Despicable Me 4 Release Date: When Will It Premiere?
As stated in the opening paragraph, Illumination already has two films planned to continue the franchise, the first of which, ‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ will be premiering next summer, 3rd July, 2020. It would thus be prudent to assume that the next Despicable Me film, even if not appearing to have ties with this one, should take another two years to digitally master. This is given since roughly the same team will be involved in the development of both films. Assume ‘Despicable Me 4’ to hit theatres in the summer of 2022.
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