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A viral TikTok trend which sees groups of young people wearing suits during screenings of Minions: The Rise Of Gru is costing cinemas across Britain thousands of pounds in refunds.

The trend, often accompanied by cheering, clapping and shouting, sees hordes of teenage boys dressing up in suits to watch the new movie - and has led to some UK cinemas banning groups of young people wearing suits.

The TikTok videos involve groups, who call themselves 'The Gentleminions', filming themselves going to watch the latest instalment in the Despicable Me franchise dressed in suits. 

It is not yet clear where the trend originated, but the #gentleminions videos show suited groups attending the screenings and copying the main character, supervillain Felonius Gru, and his signature hand gesture. 

Despite cinema audiences enduring rowdy behaviour, movie studio Universal Pictures, which produced the film, endorsed the #gentleminions trend, tweeting: 'To everyone showing up to @Minions in suits: we see you and we love you'. 

But one manager of a Vue Cinema in Worcester said they had to issue £1,300 worth of refunds in a single day due to complaints from customers about bad behaviour by the young people dressed in suits.

One mother said: 'Took the girls to see the minions movie this evening. Walked out after an hour and got a refund.

'Pretty much the whole rear half of the cinema was full of teenagers screaming, shouting, chanting and yelling throughout the entire thing. Wtf is wrong with people?'

Another person wrote: 'People going into the Minions movie and making a huge mess and screaming and ruining the movie for other people - you're not funny and it's incredibly difficult to deal with when other customers demand refunds for your s**ty behavior.'