Minion: A villain was borncoming from My favorite villain It premiered worldwide last week and has already broken an audience record in the United States. The animated film grossed $ 107 million last weekend. But that boom at the box office in the United States and around the world generates other no less problems: the chaos in the cinemas of teenagers going in suits, going wild and eating and throwing bananas, encouraged by a movement generated on TikTok. Indeed, British cinemas have already banned such situations. and they will apply some sort of admission fee.

Mostly boys in their teens and twenties, young men in suits clapped, clapped and bananas were thrown at the screen possessed by a strange TikTok trend: the #gentlemen.

Following the #gentleminions trend, groups of teenagers in suits – imitating the main character, Felonius Gru, and his iconic gesture – have interrupted the screenings of the film released Friday in the UK, recovering and posting videos on social networks that are gone viral.

“Due to a small number of accidents in our cinemas over the weekend, we had to restrict access to the rooms under certain circumstances “explained a spokesperson for the Odeon cinema chain.

The Mallard, the only cinema on the Anglo-Norman island of Guernsey, has stopped showing the film due to “incredibly bad behavior” by some groups.

The director of the cinema, Daniel Phillips Smith, told the BBC that these young viewers had “sworn, threw objects” and had argued with other viewers during the sessions.

This animated film, which production company Universal has delayed for two years due to the pandemic, explores the origins of the franchise’s main character who, since the very first episode – “Me Bad and Ugly,” in 2010 – has raised 3,700. millions of dollars at the box office, according to the specialized site IMDB, not counting the many derivatives.

Released on Friday in the US, UK and China, the film traces the beginning of Gru, the failed villain of this saga who, as a teenager and surrounded by an army of “Minions”, tries to integrate himself into a group of villains. : the Vicious 6.

For its part, Universal approved the outburst of young people, tweeting: “To all who show up at @Minions in a suit and tie: we see you and we love you.”

How did it go in Argentina?

And here, in Argentina, it was seen by 669,361 spectators, from Thursday to Sunday, according to data prepared by the company Ultracine. And that number has positioned it, in just four days, as the ninth most watched film so far in 2022. And 168,000 admissions have been made since surpassing Top Gun Maverick.

He climbed, day by day, and even on Sundays – a rarity – he brought more audiences than Saturdays. On Thursday 85,414 viewers saw it, Friday 108,774, Saturday 237,391 and Sunday 237,782.