Puppy

Puppy (2013) is a five-minute animated short you can watch online on iFILM — a bonus film from Illumination and Universal released alongside Despicable Me 2. Minion Dave wants a pet. Every attempt fails spectacularly.

Then a tiny UFO lands. It abducts his latest (failed) catch, beeps cheerfully, and before Dave knows what happened, the spacecraft has decided he's its best friend. Pierre Coffin voices Dave with his usual commitment to sounds that mean everything and translate to nothing. Directors Yarrow Cheney and Bruno Dequier pack a proper three-act structure — setup, disaster, unlikely happy ending — into those five minutes without wasting a second.

It's the kind of short that works on toddlers and adults equally: kids laugh at the chaos, adults appreciate just how efficient the storytelling is. Stream Puppy online on iFILM.