The little, yellow, ambiguously humanoid Minions may not have been the focus of 2010’s Despicable Me , but they proved to be the most marketable thing about the film, and 16 years later, we are now blessed with the seventh movie in the franchise (and the third to be solely focused on the Minions themselves). Set in the 1920s during the early days of Hollywood, the latest pre-Gru adventure follows a group of Minions as they become silent movie stars and unwittingly unleash monsters upon the world