In the first film, a date of birth of September 28, 1960 is given, but in Minions: The Rise of Gru, he is 11 and three-quarters years old around February 1976, which would place his date of birth in 1964 or 1965.
Plot. In 1976, an eleven-year-old Gru dreams of becoming a supervillain, assisted by the Minions, whom he has hired to work for him.
Parents need to know that Minions: The Rise of Gru is a Despicable Me prequel/origin story about how young 11-year-old Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) began his life of villainy. As with the other films in this franchise, you can expect peril, slapstick violence, cartoon torture, explosions, and…
Character information
Gru is a 50-year-old bald man who used to be the world's #1 villain.
Margo Gru is the adopted eldest child of Felonius Gru and Lucy Wilde. Before she was adopted, and much like her younger sisters, Edith and Agnes, she was an orphan horribly treated by Miss Hattie. Like Edith and Agnes, Margo wished to be adopted by somebody who would love them.
3 interesting facts about Bob from the Minions. Bob has heterochromia which means he has two different eye colours. He's also the smallest and youngest Minion.
Gru adopts them, returns them, and takes them again. He writes a kid's book for them to express his grief at returning them and to declare his permanent love for them. We are given good insight into Gru's development into a villain.
Minions live forever; Their birth was at the dawn of time, as lots of people know.
Felonious Gru, or Felonius Gru, referred to simply as Gru, is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Despicable Me film series. Voiced by American actor Steve Carell, he has appeared in all five films in the series.
Gru — who conjures up a plan to shrink and steal the moon — adopts three girls from a local orphanage, but it takes him way too long to figure out how to properly treat them.
Otto. The newest Minion, Otto is chatty, easily distracted, and has a charming braces-induced lisp.
Content that may disturb children
In addition to the violent scenes mentioned above, Minions: The Rise of Gru has some scenes that could scare or disturb children under 5 years. For example, each of the evil villains transforms into a menacing animal from the Chinese zodiac.
He has three adopted daughters Margo, Edith, and Agnes.
Gru, the pointy-nosed main character voiced by Steve Carell, is of unknown origin but carries a thick eastern European accent. Because of that accent, when he says "girls," it sounds like "gorls." And he says it a lot because of his three adopted daughters.
Lucy Gru (née Wilde) is a major character of the Despicable Me franchise. She was a goofy agent of the Anti-Villain League. She is the love interest, later wife of Felonius Gru and adoptive mother to Margo, Edith, and Agnes. She is one of the main characters in the movies Despicable Me 2 and of Despicable Me 3.
The undeniable stars of the hit Despicable Me franchise, the Minions, have all been confirmed as male by co-creator Pierre Coffin. The yellow-skinned, pill-shaped creatures, who exist to serve the world's greatest evildoers, won hearts through their patented combination of adorability and blunderous behavior.
Otto has a tuft of hair, a mouth full of braces, and, most excitingly, he's fat. In fact—and it truly blows my mind to say this—Otto is the best fat character in a major animated film since the iconic Shrek. “So what if he's fat?” you might ask. “What does that have to do with anything?” “He's a Minion!
That means they've existed for at least 60 million years, making them one of the oldest surviving complex organisms on the planet.
Marlena Gru (also known as Gru's Mom) is Felonius Gru and Dru Gru's mother, Lucy Wilde's mother-in-law, Robert Gru's ex-wife, and the adoptive paternal grandmother of Margo, Edith and Agnes.
Lucy accepts Gru's invitation for a date, and they jump into the ocean before the rocket explodes in the volcano. One hundred and forty-seven dates later, Gru and Lucy get married, giving Margo, Edith, and Agnes a mother.
What kind of language do the Minions speak? The Minions speak Minionese, sometimes called “the Banana language”. Minionese is what's known as a constructed language – or “conlang”. Conlangs are often a feature of works of fantasy and science fiction.
Well, in the main trio of Minions, no one is cuter than Bob. Bob is the shorter two-eyed stubby little minion with no hair whatsoever next to Kevin and Stuart.
Stuart the Minion
Minion Stuart is one of the three main characters featured in the Minions movie. While he acts fairly innocent in the first few movies, he plays a teenage rebel in this on-screen appearance. Distinguished by his one brown eye and center combed Minion hair, he has been fairly easy to keep tabs on.
In Despicable Me, Tim is a tall two-eyed minion with short Sprout-Cut Hair. He is usually seen dressed as a father.