![]() Now that the much-older Wild Knuckles is out of the picture, The Vicious 6-I mean Five-are looking for a much younger replacement. I told you this movie wasn’t that clever. Just kidding! He’s voiced by Jean-Claude Van Damme. ![]() His name is Jean-Clawed and he’s voiced by Steven Seagal. There’s Stronghold ( Danny Trejo), a nunchaku-wielding nun named Nun-Chuck ( Lucy Lawless), the Nordic strongman Svengeance ( Dolph Lundgren), and a dude with an enormous lobster claw for a hand. The other four members have equally pun-based names. With her ever-changing wardrobe and enormous Afro, (which is animated with an impressive amount of texture) Belle looks like Cleopatra Jones. Henson), who cruelly explains that honor among thieves is a myth before dropping him to his presumed death from their plane. ![]() Granted, that song came out in 1977, but “Minions: The Rise of Gru” uses Lipps Inc.’s 1980 banger, “Funkytown” not once, but twice.Īfter braving death to retrieve the gems, Wild Knuckles is betrayed by team member Belle Bottom ( Taraji P. Unfortunately, the filmmakers are not that clever. Considering all the groan-inducing needle drops that occur in this series, I expected The Zodiac Stones to be accompanied by that trash classic-slash-astrology lesson “Float On” by the Floaters. Once retrieved, it will give the Vicious 6 an unlimited amount of power on the night of the Chinese New Year. They are there to retrieve a necklace of gems called The Zodiac Stones. We see Wild Knuckles and his crew in action in an exotic, Indiana Jones-style locale. They affectionately call him "mini-boss." When he’s not wondering how his employees “got so much denim” for their outfits, Gru is fantasizing about joining The Vicious 6, an Avengers-like conglomerate of villains created by Wild Knuckles ( Alan Arkin). After their own prequel, “ Minions,” and a pit stop for the lackluster present-day sibling rivalry plot of “ Despicable Me 3,” Kevin Le Minion and his one and two-eyed pals have returned to the past to support the “eleven and three-quarters” years old version of Gru. ![]() They make me laugh and I’m not even remotely remorseful about that. Readers of this site know of my soft spot for the Minions, those yellow, pill-shaped purveyors of trouble who are hopelessly devoted to Gru ( Steve Carell). ![]()
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