Minions, those yellow, pill-shaped all-male creatures, had the world in a chokehold when the film Despicable Me came out in 2010. AKA Gru's little ... if not millions of memes since its inception.

While it would eventually be the Minions spinoff franchise that would ensure the series’ legacy, the genius of the first Despicable Me was the casting of Steve Carell as Gru, a supervillain who ...

“There’s a lot of them so they have a kind of power in that they can overwhelm,” says Chris Renaud, producer of Rise of Gru and director of the first two Despicable Me films. “It’s like ...