minions

This article covers the movie; for further meanings see Minion .

Movie
German title	minions
Original title	minions
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2015
length	91 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0 JMK 6
Rod
Director	Pierre Coffin , Kyle Balda
script	Brian Lynch
production	Chris Meledandri , Janet Healey
music	Heitor Pereira
cut	Claire Dodgson
synchronization
chronology
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Minions [ mɪnjəns ] ( English for "loyal servants", "mate", "lackeys") is an American 3D - animated film , that of Chris Meledandri and Janet Healey was produced. The film is a spin-off of Despicable Me  (2010) and Despicable Me 2  (2013). It was produced by Illumination Entertainment for Universal Pictures . The screenplay was written by Brian Lynch and directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda . Sandra Bullock speaks the original character of Scarlet Overkill, and Jon Hamm lent his voice to her husband, the inventor Herb Overkill.

Minions is the first not from Disney animated film produced, the world's more than one billion US dollars occupied and the second most successful animated film. It is also number 21 (as of August 8, 2020) in the list of the most successful films .

action

Minions are small yellow beings that have existed since ancient times. From yellow protozoa, they evolved into a form of life with only one goal: to serve the most terrible villains in history. After all of their masters - a T-Rex , a Pharaoh , Genghis Khan , Dracula , a Stone Age man , a knight, and Napoleon - were killed by misfortunes on their part, they decided to isolate themselves from the world. For many years they lived depressed in an ice cave because they lacked a leader.

In 1968, Kevin worked out a plan to find a new master. A rebellious teenage minion named Stuart volunteers for support, while Bob, who is actually still a child, follows Kevin despite his concerns. After a long journey, the three Minions arrive in New York City , where they learn that a villain -con gathering, called Villain-Con , is to take place in Orlando , where super villains are looking for new helpers . You can make the long way to Orlando by trying your hand at hitchhiking. It so happens that the family she is taking to Orlando are also criminals and want to attend the convention too . There the Minions succeed in stealing a ruby from Scarlet Overkill - the "first female super villain in the world" . This had previously announced that it would make the next henchman who could do this.

She takes the Minions then with their residence to London , where she applies them to the crown of Queen Elizabeth II. To steal for them. She makes it clear to the Minions that if they fail, she will kill them. With the help of the weapons of inventor Herb Overkill, Scarlet's husband, the Minions manage to break into the Tower of London . However, the crown is passed on to the queen at the last moment. Therefore, the Minions steal the crown from the Queen's carriage during a chase and are then followed by the police. At the end of this, Bob falls near Excalibur , which he pulls out of the stone with the help of Herb Overkill's mechanical hands without much effort for self-defense. In keeping with the mythical meaning of the sword, this makes Bob the rightful King of England.

Shortly after his coronation, Scarlet angrily seeks out the Minions and describes them as traitors. The Minions, who still want to serve the greatest villain, offer Scarlet the crown, so that Bob abdicates in favor of Scarlet. However, Scarlet betrays the Minions and locks them in the torture chamber, where Herb is supposed to torture them. However, the various torture devices do not work because of the shape and abilities typical of minions. When Herb goes to attend his wife's coronation ceremony, they flee through a sewer. At Westminster Abbey , the Minions disrupt Scarlet's coronation ceremony when they accidentally drop a chandelier on them just before the coronation. Scarlet sends some members of the coronation ceremony, who are also super villains, to kill the Minions. Stuart and Bob are captured while Kevin is able to hide in a bar. When Kevin realizes that Scarlet wants to kill Stuart and Bob, he breaks into Herbs laboratory, where he triggers a machine that makes him oversized and at the same time destroys the overkill residence.

Meanwhile, the Minions tribe , who remained in the ice , discovers a few Yetis , for whose leaders they begin to work. This too is killed in one of their mishaps. The Minions are furiously pursued by the Yetis and leave the continent. Finally, after many difficulties, they also reached England by plane. Meanwhile, Kevin manages to save his friends from execution, with Scarlet engaging him in a fight. Meanwhile, the Minions who followed arrive in London and roam the streets to find Kevin. Scarlet is distracted by her arrival and Kevin manages to push her away. The super villain tries to escape with Herb using her dress rocket, but the still huge Kevin holds her before the rocket explodes and all three seem to die. But Kevin, shrunk back to original size, lands safely, using his still oversized dungarees as a parachute.

Elizabeth II is finally the crowned Queen of England again and receives Kevin, Stuart and Bob in front of the people present. Suddenly it is revealed that Scarlet survived. She tears the crown off the Queen's head and tries to escape together with her husband Herb. The two are stopped by the still young Gru, who freezes Scarlet and Herb with his freezer and steals the crown himself. The Minions see Gru as their new leader and follow him.

synchronization

The synchronization was carried out by FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH in Berlin . Frank Schaff wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue .

role	Original speaker	German voice actors
Scarlet Overkill	Sandra Bullock	Carolin Kebekus
Herb overkill	Jon Hamm	Sascha Rotermund
Sir Kevin, the minion	Pierre Coffin	-
Bob the minion
Stuart the Minion
minions	Chris Renaud	-
Tina	Katy Mixon	Friedel Morgenstern
Queen Elizabeth II	Jennifer Saunders	Ulrike Möckel
Fabrice	Dave Rosenbaum	Christian Gaul
Dumo, the sumo villain	Hiroyuki Sanada	Matti Klemm
Madge Nelson	Allison Janney	Christin Marquitan
Walter Nelson	Michael Keaton	Pierre Peters-Arnolds
Ticket inspector	Laraine Newman	Luise Lunow
SheBot	Peter Serafinowicz
Gru (young)	Steve Carell	Oliver Rohrbeck
Professor Flux	Steve Coogan	Marcus Off
Tower guard		Uli Krohm
teller	Geoffrey Rush	Erich Rauker
VNC announcer	Michael Beattie	Tobias Lelle
Walter Nelson Junior		Tobias Müller
Royal advisor	Alex Dowding	Claudio Maniscalco
News reporter	Paul Thornley	Rainer Fritzsche

Language of the Minions

In the film, the Minions speak a fictional language with partly made up words, but also many terms that have been borrowed from different languages, including Spanish , Korean , Chinese and Filipino . Although the language seems nonsensical, the English-language words of the original version are synchronized into the respective target language to make them easier to understand.

Soundtrack

The official soundtrack for the film was released on July 10, 2015 by Back Lot Music. It also contains the original film music composed by Heitor Pereira .

Title List:

1. Happy together
2. Minions Through Time
3. Kevin, Stuart and Bob
4. Minions run amok
5. Tortellini
6. The VNC
7. Minions in the USA
8. Scarlet Overkill
9. Ruby Fight
10. Make 'Em Laugh
11. Scarlet's Fortress
12. Traveling tribe
13. Tower of London
14. Hair
15. Fighting the Crown Keeper
16. King Bob
17. (Theme From) The Monkees
18. Dungeon Mayhem
19. Goodbye Fabrice
20. Minion Mission
21. Sneaking in
22. King Kong Kevin
23. Our Hero Is Back
24. Minions Victory
25. Greatest Renegade Unveiling (GRU)
26. Universal Fanfare (sung by the Minions)
27. Happy together
28. I'm a man
29. You Really Got Me
30. My generation
31. Mellow Yellow
32. Revolution (sung by the minions)

production

The first trailer for the film was released in autumn 2014 . At the beginning of 2015, a second trailer followed, in which Scarlet Overkill, the super villain of the film, can be seen for the first time. A third preview followed in late spring 2015, showing, among other things, how the Minions are trying to steal the Queen's crown. The film was originally scheduled to start in December 2014, but the date was postponed to mid-2015 as Universal Pictures was hoping for a summer film success.

The film had its world premiere on the evening of June 11, 2015 in London and was presented on June 18 at the Festival d'Animation Annecy . In Great Britain, the release took place on June 26, 2015, in the United States, the film was released on July 10, 2015. The cinema release in Germany was on July 2, 2015.

Gross profit

In Germany, Minions immediately received a bogey for more than 1000 viewers per film copy on the starting weekend . Around 925,000 visitors saw the film and brought in box-office earnings of around 8.7 million euros. According to visitors, only Fack ju Göhte 2 (2.1 million visitors) as well as Fast & Furious 7 (1.33 million visitors) and Fifty Shades of Gray (1.35 million visitors) were more successful on the first weekend in 2015 , although after Sales also did Jurassic World and Avengers: Age of Ultron . In addition, Minions is much more successful than the previous film Despicable Me 2  (2013), which had 521,000 visitors. After 48 days, the film had six million visitors and thus secured the golden screen with a star . Up to October 25, 2015, 6,832,918 visitors were counted at the German box offices. In terms of visitor numbers, the film thus ranks second in its year of publication. The international box office is currently around 1.159 billion US dollars. This puts the film in 21st place in the list of the most successful films (as of August 8, 2020).

Merchandising

The book for the film and the Minions soundtrack appeared shortly before the film started. This was followed by the first issue of a new Minions comic series published by Titan Comic. The minions were also made as surprise egg figures and were also used by McDonald’s as a happy meal surprise.

DVD and Blu-ray publishing

The film was released on November 12, 2015 in Germany on DVD and Blu-ray . In addition to the normal movie, the Blu-ray also contains three new Minions short films, the titles of which are Cro Minion , Competition and Binky Nelson Schnullerlos . In addition, a box set was released, which contains the first two parts of the planned trilogy Despicable Me and the Minions film.

Awards and nominations

Award	category	Nominees & Award Winners	Result	source
People's Choice Award ( 2016 )	Favorite Family Movie	minions	Won
	Favorite Movie Animated Voice	Sandra Bullock	Nominated
British Academy Film Awards (2016)	Best Animated Film	Pierre Coffin , Kyle Balda	Nominated

Web links

• Official website for the film
• Minions in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Minions atrotten tomatoes(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for Minions . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2015 (PDF; test number: 152 294 K).
2. ↑ Age rating for Minions . Youth Media Commission .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Top Lifetime Greats. Box Office Mojo, accessed August 8, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Todd Cunningham: 'Minions' Passes 'Toy Story 3' to Become No. 2 Animated Movie Ever - TheWrap, September 13, 2015, accessed September 20, 2015.
5. ↑ mb: Art project or nasty prank ?: Mysterious transformation: garbage cans become villains overnight. In: Focus Online . September 4, 2015, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Contents and details. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
7. ↑ Cast . Internet Movie Database , accessed October 16, 2014.
8. ↑ Minions in synchronkartei.de. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
9. ^ Banana Language. In: Minions Wiki. Retrieved January 27, 2016 . 
10. ^ Peter Debruge: Chris Meledandri on How the 'Minions' Came to Life. In: Variety. Retrieved January 27, 2016 (American English). 
11. ↑ Back Lot Music to Release "Minions" soundtrack. In: Film Music Reporter. May 20, 2015, accessed June 25, 2015 . 
12. ↑ Release Info . In: Internet Movie Database , accessed October 16, 2014.
13. ↑ German cinema charts: The yellow high-flyers. In: Blickpunkt: Film. Busch Entertainment Media, July 6, 2015, accessed July 6, 2015 . 
14. ↑ Minions. In: Golden canvas. Verlag Horst Axtmann GmbH, accessed on September 24, 2015 . 
15. ↑ Top 100 Germany 2015. InsideKino, accessed on October 28, 2015 . 
16. ↑ Minions. Box Office Mojo, accessed October 28, 2015 . 
17. ↑ FAVORITE FAMILY MOVIE. In: Vote People's Choice Awards 2016. Retrieved January 20, 2016 . 
18. ↑ FAVORITE MOVIE ACTRESS. In: Vote People's Choice Awards 2016. Retrieved January 20, 2016 .