SINGAPORE — I painted my nails yellow in honour of the Minions’ return to the big screen, so you can already tell right off the bat that I was a fan of the first Despicable Me movie.

Happily, Despicable Me 2 doesn’t disappoint, despite having a plot that’s thinner than a runway model in Spanx. This time, ex-super villain Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) is now a domesticated dad and the only thing left for him to do is to find a mum for his three precocious girls. Fortuitously, he meets Agent Lucy Wilde (Kristen Wiig), who recruits him to spy for the Anti-Villain League — at the mall, which is obviously a hotbed of criminal activity.

The villain of this particular movie is El Macho (Benjamin Bratt), Latino bandido supremo, and his Latin lover son, who toys with eldest daughter Margo’s feelings. I guess they needed some minority representation.

The less-than-mindblowing storyline, however, doesn’t detract from the main stars of the movie: Everybody’s favourite overalls-clad, animated Twinkies with the intellectual maturity of nine-year-old boys, the Minions.

In 98 minutes, the little yellow guys manage to take a tropical paradise vacation, get abducted by an ice cream truck, cover a hit boyband song as wedding singers, and become infected with a serum that turns them into raging purple destroyers — and that’s not even the half of it. Seeing as you’ll float out of the cinema on a cloud of euphoric Minion giggles, I’d say you get your money’s worth of pure, sweet and wonderful silliness. (G, 98mins)