As a tribe they plow ahead in hysterically hyperactive herky-jerky movements. They’re tremendously engaging as they swim, wade, trudge and scamper through ocean, sand, tundra, and ice. In an inspired introductory sequence, the Minions emerge with a roguish group personality from hazardous prehistoric seas. With knock-’em-dead burlesque instinct, that’s how directors Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda deploy them throughout a cock-eyed “origin story” that goes from all way back to Creation to “42 B.G.” (That is, 1968 A.D., 42 years before they first appeared with Gru, their one true master, in Despicable Me.) When the Minions enter 1960s New York and then Swingin’ England, they become DayGlo catalysts for tie-dyed comical destruction. In Minions, the prequel to the Despicable Me movies, evil Scarlett Overkill describes her mini-henchmen as “pill-shaped miracle workers.” Actually, they’re more like petite yellow projectiles.
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