Yellow is the New Black (2018)

Directed by: Serguei Kouchnerov, Fabien Polack | 4 minutes | animation, short film | Original voice cast: Pierre Coffin, Brian T. Delaney, Carlos Alazraqui

Every Illumination fan is already counting on it: the studio adds a number of shorts to the home entertainment release of their animated films. Often one of them has already been shown in the cinema, as a warm-up for the main film and the others are new. ‘Yellow is the New Black’ was shown in theaters as the opening act for ‘The Grinch’, the animated film in which the world-famous story of Dr. Seuss got an update. The film is of course also on the DVD and blu-ray of ‘The Grinch’.

In ‘Yellow is the New Black’ we see the minions again, the figures that made Illumination Entertainment so big. The hapless minions are imprisoned for unknown reasons and try to make the best of it with their eternal optimism. When they have fun at work, a prison guard gives them an extra sentence and they have to work outside in the blazing hot sun. Another prisoner sees his chance and seizes (literally) the presence of the minions to escape. What follows is a very fast edited video, in which both the minions and the prisoner have a number of narrow escapes.

‘Yellow is the New Black’ doesn’t have much to say about it, but the Minion fans will undoubtedly have a laugh about it.