Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022)

Minions: The Rise of Gru poster

Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022)


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Female Combat: Yes

Viewer Rating
6.6

Overview

A fanboy of a supervillain supergroup known as the Vicious 6, Gru hatches a plan to become evil enough to join them, with the backup of his followers, the Minions.


Starring Cast


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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Center

Primary

The film's focus on universal themes of ambition, friendship, and finding one's identity, presented within a comedic, apolitical supervillain origin story, prevents it from aligning with any specific political ideology.

The film features a visibly diverse voice cast and character designs, particularly among the new villain group, without explicitly recasting traditionally white roles. Its narrative is a lighthearted animated comedy that does not critique traditional identities, focusing instead on the protagonist's origin story and adventures.

Secondary

The film features Belle Bottom, a skilled martial artist and leader of the Vicious 6, who is shown to be victorious in direct physical combat against multiple male opponents using melee weapons and hand-to-hand techniques.

Minions: The Rise of Gru does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses on Gru's origin story and the Minions' adventures, with no elements pertaining to queer identity or relationships, resulting in no depiction to evaluate.

Minions: The Rise of Gru does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses on Gru's origin story and his interactions with the Minions and a group of supervillains, without engaging with transgender identity in any capacity.

The film introduces new characters and depicts younger versions of established characters like Gru and Dr. Nefario. All characters maintain their canonical gender from previous installments or are original to this film, thus lacking a prior gender to swap from.

Minions: The Rise of Gru is a prequel to an existing animated franchise. All established characters maintain their original racial depictions, and new characters introduced in this film do not constitute race swaps.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

6.6

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
6.5
The Movie Database logo
7.3

Critic Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes logo
6.9
Metacritic logo
5.6

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