It’s the Minions to the rescue in “Despicable Me 3.” Whenever the picture from the Illumination animation studio sags into scenes of frantic yelling, which is often, it’s up to the little yellow ...

This week, a meme called “Gorl” began setting the internet on fire. If you haven’t seen the Despicable Me movies — you know, the ones with Minions, those popular yellow blob creatures — it probably ...

What language do the Minions, those delightful, yellow homunculi of these “Despicable Me” films, speak? Whatever it is — there are snippets of English, Spanish and French as well as gibberish — it is ...

Jaundiced critters wired for subservience, the Minions have become an inescapable nuisance across all entertainment media and even theme parks. Their overly simplistic design and mostly unintelligible ...

Sergio Pablos must own a swimming pool filled with Dom Pérignon, because he’s the genius who created the Minions. Those yellow talking Tic Tacs are the best part of the enormously popular “Despicable ...

My favorite character in “Minions” isn’t Scarlet Overkill, the evil supervillain with Sandra Bullock’s voice. (“There’s a new bad man in town and that bad man is a woman.”) It isn’t her husband Herb ...

The opening sequence of 2015’s Minions is riveting. It may not be an impressive movie as a whole: The franchise-starter, 2010’s Despicable Me, is a fun film, but the series has been drawn out by a ...