Censors in China have changed the ending of the animated film Minions: The Rise of Gru for its domestic release, according to viewers in the country, in yet another example of China altering a popular Hollywood film.
In the international version, the film ends with Gru and Wild Knuckles riding off together after the latter faked his own death to evade capture.
It also states Gru, a co-conspirator of Wild Knuckles, “returned to his family” and “his biggest accomplishment is being the father to his three girls”.
The changes were widely mocked and even elicited responses from the film’s director and the author of the novel on which it was based.