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This looks like another safe bet for Illumination Entertainment. With Despicable Me 2 set to do extremely well at the box-office, it’s obvious that these yellow creatures will be another money pot for the studios. Sure the minions made Despicable Me alot of fun, but a whole film centered around them? I don’t know.
This sounds like Illumination’s answer to “The Penguins of Madagascar”.
I think this is getting a bit out of hand. I don’t even know what kind of plot they could create from this. I wonder if Gru and the girls will appear?
Despicable Me just doesn’t really strike me as something that could spawn an entire franchise. But oh well…
I’m not sure if this will work,i mean there has to be some dialogue in it at least… 
Agreed
This is an interesting move on Illumination’s part. With DM2 in 2013 and a spinoff the next year, they’ll be able to gauge whether Gru and the girls or the Minions are a bigger draw. Also, the Minions offer the possibility of exploring how much non-dialogue, slapstick, and pure character animation audiences enjoy. It worked well for the first part of WALL-E. Anyway, looking forward to see if Illumination can pull it off, good on 'em if they can.