--- title: Minions Movie: Dad, Son Dressed in Minions Costumes description: Adorable. canonical: https://time.com/3956036/minions-father-son-costumes/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-13T20:08:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:16.199Z og:title: Best Dad Ever Takes His Son to See 'Minions,' Dressed as Minions og:description: Adorable. og:url: https://time.com/3956036/minions-father-son-costumes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Best Dad Ever Takes His Son to See 'Minions,' Dressed as Minions twitter:description: Adorable. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Best Dad Ever Takes His Son to See _Minions_, Dressed as Minions ## Video: 100 Years of Blockbusters in 5 Minutes [Watch (HLS stream): 100 Years of Blockbusters in 5 Minutes](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/tfrXo5zL.m3u8) (5:21)  _Published 2014-02-12. Time has taken the highest grossing film each year for the past century and crammed them into 5 and a half minutes. No Intermission._ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 13, 2015 8:08 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 13, 2015 8:08 PM UTC The _Minions_ movie hit theaters last weekend, and one lucky kid appeared to have a great movie-going experience. Behold, this photo posted [to Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3d25rk/father%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fyear%5Faward%5Fgoes%5Fto%5Fthis%5Fgentleman/) Sunday: There’s pretty much no context here, other than the caption: “Father of the year award goes to this gentleman who was taking a very excited boy to the movies.” So, we are just _assuming_ that it was the kid’s idea to dress up, but perhaps the father is actually the true Minions fan here and had to convince his son to do this. We’ll never know for sure. _Read next:_ [_The_ ](http://time.com/3828041/minions-color-yellow-pantone/)[Minions _Get Their Very Own Color From Pantone_](http://time.com/3828041/minions-color-yellow-pantone/) ### Sandra Bullock  Universal; Getty Images Sandra Bullock stars as Scarlet Overkill, an ambitious supervillain. ### Jon Hamm  Universal; Getty Images Jon Hamm voices Herb Overkill, the supportive husband of supervillain Scarlett Overkill. ### Michael Keaton  Universal; Getty Images Michael Keaton voices Walter Nelson, a well intentioned husband and father of a family of bank robbers on a road trip to Villain-Con in Orlando. ### Allison Janney  Universal; Getty Images Allison Janney plays Madge Nelson, Walter’s wife and matriarch of their family of bank-robbers. ### Pierre Coffin  Universal; Getty Images Director Pierre Coffin reprises his role as the voices of the minions that he also played in _Despicable Me_ and _Despicable Me 2_. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3956036/minions-father-son-costumes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3956036/minions-father-son-costumes/"},"headline":"Best Dad Ever Takes His Son to See Minions, Dressed as Minions","datePublished":"2015-07-13T20:08:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:16.199Z","description":"Adorable.","url":"https://time.com/3956036/minions-father-son-costumes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3956036/minions-father-son-costumes/","name":"Best Dad Ever Takes His Son to See Minions, Dressed as Minions"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"100 Years of Blockbusters in 5 Minutes","description":"Time has taken the highest grossing film each year for the past century and crammed them into 5 and a half minutes. 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