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Gru is eventually targeted by a supervillain group known as the Vicious 6 after he's able to steal the Zodiac Stone. The prequel takes the story back to 1975 when an 11-year-old Gru is starting his ascent as a supervillain-in-training with the help/hindrance of his Minions. While the Minions movie was a notable disappointment, its prequel, The Rise of Gru, reintroduced the better elements of both worlds. After Minions bombed critically, the studio went on to make Despicable Me 3 and seem to have listened to many critics who thought Gru should be at the forefront of the franchise. While not the best Despicable Me movie, Minions: The Rise of Gruis pretty far up on the list. The creators tried to give the people what they wanted: more Minions, but Minions ended up being too much of a good thing.

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However, given that the movie brought in over $1.1 billion at the worldwide box office, it seems that Minions must have resonated with younger viewers with its often nonsensical jokes. There's no doubt that Despicable Me would not be what it is today without the Minions, but the movie often finds itself on lists that rank the worst films that made over a billion dollars. To its credit, Minions was on Netflix’s top 25 movies in 2021, but the slapstick humor got old really fast and the film just ran out of steam.

With the lowest Rotten Tomatoes rating of the franchise, the Minions movie proved that the little guys function better as little morsels of comic relief, not the main characters of a full-length film.

The cute yellow Minions may have gotten their own movie because they stole audiences' hearts in the first two Despicable Me movies, but Minions went a little too far. Although the villains included in each movie have changed with every entry, the large cast of Minion characters has persisted throughout. Though Gru prided himself on being a rough and tough supervillain in Despicable Me, by the end of the first movie he found himself in the position of being a father-like figure to three young girls, Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier), and Agnes (Elsie Fisher), who ultimately made him realize that being a supportive father was what was most important to him in future movies. In addition to The Office’s Steve Carell, the movies have featured other legends from the silver screen and small screen, including Julie Andrews as Marlena Gru, Sandra Bullock as Scarlet Overkill, and Kristen Wiig as Miss Hattie and Lucy Wilde.

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Regardless, the franchise surpassed the Shrek movies as the most successful animated series of all time after Despicable Me 3 came out in 2017. While the franchise has brought in a combined box office total of over $3.7 billion over the years, each individual movie has received a mixed bag of reviews from critics and fans alike. The films center around Gru (Steve Carell), a supervillain-turned-caring-family-man, and his faithful Minions as they navigate a world of crime. The original Despicable Me movie received incredible reviews back in 2010, and as people get to see the fifth installment from Illumination, the same CGI animation company behind the Ice Age movies, now is a good time to consider which is the best Despicable Me movie and which were the worst.

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