The Minions Are Good. I’m Serious.
In defense of the babbling little cartoon blobs
by Shirley Li
Jul 07, 2022
3 minutes
Minions! You know them, even if you don’t want to. The banana-yellow, denim-clad, booger-shaped thingamabobs are so popular that they’ve overtaken the film franchise in which they originated. They’ve had their images stitched onto every piece of merchandise possible—sanctioned or not—and probably make up the bulk of those memes your one relative won’t stop posting on Facebook. They’re agents of chaos, and their latest film, Minions: The Rise, just for a debut over the Fourth of July weekend.
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