Peter Griffin and his son Chris are both slobby dopes there’s an entire scene where Stewie follows around fat people with a tuba, soundtracking their every step.
When fatness is involved, it threatens to overwhelm a character’s entire personality.Ĭonsider Family Guy, which makes a joke out of weight at every opportunity, using fat people as quick, throwaway gags. Protagonists are usually varying degrees of remarkably thin, and when larger characters do appear, they’re kept to the sidelines or mocked for their size. “What does that have to do with anything?” “He’s a Minion! Who cares?!”īut it’s a rare thing to see fat characters, or body diversity of any kind, in mainstream animation. 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. On the run, Gru will turn to an unlikely source for guidance, Wild Knuckles himself, and discover that even bad guys need a little help from their friends.Otto has a tuft of hair, a mouth full of braces, and, most excitingly, he’s fat.
It doesn't go well (to say the least), and only gets worse after Gru outsmarts them and suddenly finds himself the mortal enemy of the apex of evil. When the Vicious 6 oust their leader, legendary fighter Wild Knuckles (Oscar® winner Alan Arkin), Gru interviews to become their newest member. Together, Kevin, Stuart, Bob, and Otto-a new Minion sporting braces and a desperate need to please-deploy their skills as they and Gru build their first lair, experiment with their first weapons and pull off their first missions. Luckily, he gets some mayhem-making backup from his loyal followers, the Minions. A fanboy of a supervillain supergroup known as the Vicious 6, Gru hatches a plan to become evil enough to join them. In the heart of the 1970s, amid a flurry of feathered hair and flared jeans, Gru (Oscar® nominee Steve Carell) is growing up in the suburbs.
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