Waste of time

Waste of Money.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This isn't a movie. This is a product. This is 91 minutes of filler designed to sell toys. Most of the "jokes" are loud, obnoxious, and lazy. This commercial doesn't get anywhere near as absurdist as it thinks it is. The plot is virtually nonexistent. The only thing that's enjoyable about this thing is all the violence and bright colors. Seriously, there is a ton of violence in this product. A lot of people die. Sure, it adds stakes to the "plot" but its not that appropriate for children. This product is not worth watching.

While the Minions were amusing characters in the "Despicable Me" films, they can't carry a movie on their own. The opening sequence about their evolution and ongoing search for an evil overload was imaginative filler, but once the main story took over, the movie degenerated into a series of repetitious sight gags, only some of which were particularly funny (such as the minions riding the Queen's corgis). Neither Sandra Bullock's "Scarlett Overkill" nor Jon Hamm's "Herb Overkill", the principal speaking characters, added much to the story and I quickly grew tired of the Minion gibberish/language. Comedy may be the most subjective of genres, so this is especially "IMO" but, unlike "Despicable Me" (2010), I didn't find "Minions" to be either particularly humorous or particularly entertaining (never-the-less, it made a boatload of money, so others must have).

This movie takes the best feature of the movies Despicable Me (2010) and Despicable Me 2 (2013) and turns it into its own feature films…the minions! This movie take place BG—that is "before Gru." We learn that minions are creatures whose only satisfaction is to serve the evilest villains on earth. We see that since the dawn of time, the minions have served the worst villains from cavemen to Dracula—albeit not to the greatest success. The minions fall on dark times, where they have no villain to serve. This causes the entire minion civilization to fall into a great depression, until one day, the minion Kevin decides to set off on a quest to find the most evil villain on earth for the minions to serve. Kevin begins his quest by finding his way to Villain-Con, a convention for all of the world's super villains. It ends up that Kevin and his two apprentices Stuart and Bob fall under the employment of Scarlett Overkill, the world's first female Super-villain. Together they plot to steal the crown of the Queen of England, and the adventure unfolds. This movie is non-stop laughs from the Universal Pictures presents screen right to the Illumination Entertainment logo after the end credits roll. Much of the movie takes place in the minion language (which while incomprehensible borrows words from French, Spanish and Italian; and those are just the languages I detected). Still without understanding exactly what the minions are saying you can understand the messages conveyed, particularly when they are mocking each other for failing—some of the funniest scenes of the movie. For the third movie in a franchise this movie lives up to the first two films. A wise move to take a lovable, adorable, and hysterical character and spin off it's own film.

This was an OK film, but nothing that great. It's definitely not as good as the previous Despicable Me films, but it's decent. But the really good part about this was the end when the "young" version of Gru (*spoiler alert*) froze Scarlet Overkill and flew away with the Minions running after him. I think that it has too much Minions for me. Kids will enjoy it and laugh, but adults might think otherwise as the sense of humor.