

Oh, and one more thing – they're simply and completely ADORABLE! In spite of their evil inclinations, these are simple-minded, child-like innocents who mainly want to have fun and fulfill their potential as minions. Some are a little taller than the others, they have slightly different styles of (sparse) hair, some have two eyes and some have one, but all wear goggles and they speak in a kind of child-like babble which combines English, Spanish, French and possibly bits of a few other languages too (it's kind of hard to tell). The minions are child-sized, yellow, pill-shaped creatures whose sole purpose in life is to serve an evil master. They were a hit in the first film and they played a larger role in the second film, which performed even better than the first, so, naturally, they got a movie of their own. The minions were a small big reason for all that. In 2013, "Despicable Me 2" made over $368 million domestically and was rated by audiences as even better than the original. alone (almost quadruple what it cost), so, naturally, there was a sequel. That film made over $250 million in the U.S. In 2010, Illumination Entertainment released its first animated feature film, "Despicable Me", about an evil genius named Gru who was struggling to stay on top of the evil genius business, with the help of his pint-sized henchmen known as minions.
