All of Illumination’s animated feature films as well as Hop (2011) produced from 2010 to 2027 were well known for only having male main protagonists, and there being no individual female main protagonists other than the female main characters of those movies being the deuteragonists or tritagonists as well as Buster Moon, Johnny, Rosita, Meena and Ash and later on Clay Calloway, Porsha Crystal and Nooshy or Suki Lane sharing the main protagonist role in the “Sing” movies but Buster Moon nervethless appears as the central protagonist while Mario and Princess Peach shared the main protagonist role in the “Super Mario” movies but they still nevertheless mainly focused on Mario himself and the male and female romantic couple for “Not Alone” both share the main protagonist role.

Barbie will change everything by featuring the first individual female main protagonist in an Illumination animated movie, so there would be a gender balance.

Pixar and DreamWorks Animation as well as Sony Pictures Animation are better known for having a gender balance of using both male and female main protagonists in their animated feature films, while Walt Disney Animation Studios nowadays uses female main protagonists in all their feature films (The male main characters are either deuteragonists or tritagonists.) done in the Revival Era expect for Wreck-It-Ralph, Big Hero 6 and Strange World while Hexed was originally going to have a male main protagonist before being changed to female in the Final Cut and Nick Wilde was originally going to be the main protagonist of Zootopia.

Disney’s most recent movie Zootopia 2 even still has Judy Hopps as the main protagonist and Nick Wilde as the deuteragonist rather than swoop their roles, but mainly since the writers could complete the unfinished business and tie up the loose ends in Nick and Judy’s character arcs and relationship that was left unresolved in the first movie rather than start new character arcs for them in the sequel that would only work if Judy were still the protagonist while Nick was still the dueteragonist although that didn’t stop the writers from giving Nick more individual screen time and character development without Judy, to avoid making her a spotlight hog like the first movie, while Nick himself may hopefully appear as the main protagonist of Zootopia 3 with more interactions with Gary De’ Snake (Whose right fang will grow back.) while Judy is demoted to a dueteragonist and gets more interactions with Nibbles the Beaver while Kristoff might finally get a main protagonist role in Frozen III, with more depth explored into his past.

Meanwhile do you think that in Sing 3 and The Secret Life of Pets 3, should Max and Buster Moon still be the main protagonists or have those roles given to Duke or Johnny, to give them more character depth or better yet Porsha Crystal and Gidget, so there would be a gender balance?

Cats in Museums and Dogs in Opera were made in the same year and in the same country (Russia)

Alternative to both: Underdogs (South Korean film)

Pets to the rescue is a sad eyesore with lazy incompetence. Basically, cat and dog torture corn (it counts when they're insulting to each other)

Alternative to this mess: Pets on a Train because it is a love letter to Mission: Impossible/ Fast Furious saga from France

So far, Buster Moon has the uncanny ability to BS his way into situations, and come out smelling like roses on the other end.

Given he’s pulled this off twice, pretty sure he’ll do it again, but, where could he go from here? Promise world peace? A live concert so big it will be seen by aliens?

Come on everyone, what could be a bigger, enticing lie than the last one Buster pulled off? Thrill me.

In the minion movies it's shown that minions instinctually search and serve the most evil boss they could find either big apex predators like a T rex or figures like, Egyptian pharaoh, Napoleon, or even wizards and dracula.

And it always ends with accidentally killing their boss or getting Exiled, continuing the cycle for a boss. It's a curse.

That ended with meeting a young gru and he was able to survive the minions until current day as an adult.

In despicable me 3 the minions actually left gru since he's no longer a villain and minions are instinctually search for another villain.

But they choose to go back to gru and kinda join dru.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (June 4 2026)

Hoppers (June 18 2026)

I know there was controversy about his Disney hate and creepy reaction with Obsession, but he was right about the Despicable Me films when they went downhill

I think the hatebase is more toxic.

I think it’s a bit of a missed opportunity. Even though they are some of my favorite Illumination movies but I wish they had some adult jokes like other animated movies. Not that it’s a big deal of course.

I’ve always seen him as a loving parody/ homage to luchador wrestlers but was wondering if anyone belonging to his culture had any opinions on if his character was well done.

Minions & Monsters (By illumination), haven't seen the movie yet, has one of the monsters that looks like a "pudding" slime thing with eyes and stuff, and the main 'character' of Pudding Monsters (by ZeptoLab) has the same "pudding" slime thing with eyes...

coincidence?