goofball

Dir: David Leitch. Starring: Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon, Benito A Martínez Ocasio, Sandra Bullock. 15, 126 minutes.Brad Pitt has spent decades trying to tell us that, underneath all that leading man sheen, he’s really just a goofball. Think his wonderfully bumbleheaded turns in Burn After Reading, Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood, and, hell, even this year’s The Lost City. I’m not sure how much audiences have been convinced of this, though.…

There’s not a whole lot that is new in the latest instalment of the Despicable Me franchise, the second in the series to foreground the adventures of the Minions. But that familiar silliness, the madcap, looney-tunes energy, the big, wet raspberry blown in the face of sophistication, has always been what the Minions do best. And here, in Minions: The Rise of Gru, the bean-shaped evil-groupies deliver a concentrated hit of irrepressible goofball nonsense.The film, which loosely follows the 2010 first Minions movie as an…