Baby Groot isn’t an idiot, and neither are the Minions, but that’s how both Disney and Universal want them to be seen. Again, it’s the Three Stooges formula.

Minions, the little tic-tac guys that are the color of baby chicks and speak with the timbre of a toddler full of helium, first appeared in Universal’s Despicable Me in 2010.

Then again, according to the official back story, Minions are age-old servants of villainy and would-be traffic-snarlers. The little jerks are probably cursing at our kids.

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