![]() The second reason is that there is actually something far more blatantly sexualized in the film that I found more offensive than a few bare butt cheeks. ![]() By extension, the object that produces said poots will always garner a giggle from kids. Heck, they may find them funny because they make defenders of the fine arts cringe. I suspect this is because they know that this is where poots come from, and poots will always be hilarious to children no matter how much they make defenders of the fine arts cringe. One is simply that most bare bottoms are funny rather than sexy, especially to children. Personally, it didn’t bother me all that much for two reasons. Now this overabundance of booty has offended some Catholic reviewers out there because they feel it sexualizes a film marketed towards children, and that’s fine. If you’ve read any other Catholic reviews of the movie, then you’re probably aware there are scenes in which a minion wears a thong, an enormous sumo’s posterior fills the frame, and a trio of palace guards are hypnotized into stripping down to their briefs and engaging in a bit of twerking. It’s chock full of the manic minion behavior and ludicrous super-villains we’ve come to expect from a Despicable Me movie. Other than that, though, the kiddies should enjoy the movie just fine. Maybe your own children will get the references to Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal or the ongoing conspiracy theory that Stanly Kubrick helped fake the moon landing, but in my theater, there were definitely moments when the little ones in the audience sat staring silently at the screen while some of the old fogeys in attendance chuckled. This isn’t due to the risqué content in the film (we’ll get to that in a minute), but more because of the fact that a large number of jokes in the movie require an intimate knowledge of the late 1960s/early 70s. This isn’t White’s first work on animated fare: He also has writing credits on The Emoji Movie and the recent “ducks on vacation” movie Migration, and of course, everyone’s favorite Mike White project, Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go.ĭespicable Me 4 will butt up against theaters on July 3.Although Minions is definitely the weakest film in the Despicable Me franchise, it’s a perfectly fine motion picture to take your child to… especially if they’re over 30 years old. ![]() But the more interesting new-to-the-series credit is from co-screenwriter Mike White, the creator of The White Lotus. Original Despicable Me director Chris Renaud is back for this sixth installment in the franchise (counting the two Minion movies) for the first time since Despicable Me 2 in 2013, and he’s sharing director credit with first-time feature director Patrick Delage, an animator on both of Renaud’s Despicable Me movies, Sing 2, WALL-E, The Secret Life of Pets 2, and a lot of other animated fare. They’re also a little butt-obsessed in this trailer, with their own spanking scene for Minion-butt-fetishists. They’re presumably a big part of the story, but the trailer is mostly about slapstick family antics, particularly involving the Minions, those weird little capsule-shaped, probably-banana-flavored critters who’ve spread to every corner of pop culture since the first Despicable Me back in 2010. This time around, the conflict centers on the “return” of new-to-the-series villains Maxime Le Mal (Will Ferrell) and Valentina (Sofia Vergara), who are out for revenge against Gru due to a past connection. ![]() The trailer for Despicable Me 4 is more of the same: Now he has a wife (Lucy, voiced by Kristen Wiig) and a baby to go with his girls, and he’s once again defending them from danger, while also getting stuff accidentally stuck in his butt. ![]() Remember when Shrek first came out in 2001 and it was all about how cranky and antisocial and ugly the titular ogre was, and how all he wanted was to be left alone? And then all the sequels were about his marriage, his kids, and his life as a sentimental Wife and Family Guy? The Despicable Me movies have pretty much followed the same path, with scheming supervillain Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) turning into a sentimental softie with a trio of adopted daughters by the end of the first movie, and spending the subsequent sequels expanding and defending his new family. ![]()
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