About Minions

Minions, Minions, Minions. It’s been nothing but Minions in the last few weeks and I’m delighted to learn from Wikipedia “Minions film”) that a Minions movie, prequel of sorts to the original Despicable Me movie, is scheduled for release 19 December 2014. Bananaaaaaaaa! 

And click here for 5 interesting things that you would like to know about the Minions, including:

The minions are voiced by Despicable Me 2 directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud.

Coffin recalled that when initial vocalizations for Gru’s henchmen weren’t working, he stepped in to make a test. “I told [Illumination founder-CEO and producer] Chris Meledandri, ‘Let me make a test. It won’t be an official one; it’s just to show whoever is going to design the voice a way to go.’ … When I asked Chris to listen to it, he said, ‘Well, you’re going to be the voice of the minions.’”

And…

The minions’ language includes French, Spanish … and food references.

In providing the voice of the Minions, Coffin uses words from languages including French, English, Spanish and Italian. “There are a lot of food references,” Renaud added. “For example, ‘poulet tiki masala’ is French for the Indian chicken dish.”