The Minions review

   
        The Minions movie is a spin-off of the Despicable Me movies about the corn pop shaped henchmen to Guru and their origin story. I loved the first Despicable Me movie it was funny, charming, heartwarming and a movie I used to watch on repeat until I grew absolutely sick of it. The second Despicable movie however while I liked it and it wasn't a bad movie held many problems and I didn't really enjoy as much as the first movie and how I feel about the second Despicable Me movie is how I feel about the Minions movie. I liked it and it wasn't necessarily a bad movie but it had many problems and I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought. I was pumped for this movie going in and when I came out I just felt 'meh.'

        The minions movie is about the minions before they met Guru trying to find a more permanent evil master to serve. Three minions Kevin, Stewart and Bob (all played by Pierre Coffin) embark on a journey to find their tribe a master and come across Scarlett Overkill (Sandra Bullock) who hires them but makes them try to steal the queen of England's crown in order to prove themselves and of course the minions being the minions mess it up and shenanigans ensue.

      This at it's heart and sole is a comedy movie meaning it's main motivation is jokes and funny characters not so much in terms of plot and message which is ok. One of my favorite movies of last year was Penguins of Madagascar and it was mainly about funny jokes than a logical plot. If comedies were judged on plots a lot of comedies wouldn't be as well reviewed.

  Yet the thing about the minions movies is that for the most part it's only half the time funny and while the other half isn't boring or cringe-worthy it's kind of unspectacular. That half of the movie didn't even have me chuckling or giggling it was just there. (If it sounds as if I'm being vague about this movie is because since comedy is the main thrust for a comedy movie it's hard to talk about one without giving most of it away.) Now that doesn't mean there weren't moments that had me crying in my seat as quite a few jokes especially in the beginning had me doing that. For the most parts kids will laugh more than anyone over the age of thirteen and if you want a time waster for the kids on a hot long summer day kids would definitely appreciate the movie.

   Now that I've talked about the comedy what about the characters and while the comedy is a mix bag they're for the most part pretty good. While the minions as much as I love them they're better in small dosages but they held up the movie really well and especially our leads the determined and leader Kevin, the lazy and musically inclined Stewart and the optimistic and super cute Bob (he's my new favorite minion) were all fun to watch and were good leads with a solid motivation of wanting to get a new master for the minion tribe.

   The new villain this time around is Scarlett Overkill and I loved her. She was funny yet different from Guru in a sense that's she's more black and white evil than him and I'm glad they didn't do a Guru rehash. They did give a her a backstory in a very subtle and clever sort of way that made you understand where she was coming from yet didn't make you sympathize with her. I also liked her demeanor and personality throughout the movie and that while she was way more evil she had a very cheerful, easy-going and slightly gentle way about her and Sandra Bullock did a great job and was very charismatic in the role. Jon Hamm as Herb Overkill was fun to watch and while he didn't have much to do he did a good job with what he was given.

   Yet the ones who really stole the show for me were the Nelson's a family the minions meet on the way to villain- con and I don't want to give much away about them because they have about 50% of the gut busting funny jokes in the movie and I would just smile and laugh every time they came on screen.

    The animation is also really good with a lot of bright colors and shapes and I love the sixties era setting of this movie. If your a huge sixties era nerd you'll definitely like this movie because they're are a lot of sixties era references that was well done.

    A problem of this movie is pacing. The pacing is very fast and fast pacing in comedies could be either the death of or the salvation of comedies. While it's not the death of the movie it doesn't give you time to enjoy the movie and it makes the movie feel rush and almost incomplete. For example, on the day I saw this movie I went out to dinner but because of how long it took the waiter to bring my food and what time the movie was at I basically had to speed eat my food only to feel unsatisfied and still hungry. That's the same problem Despicable Me 2 had the pace was so fast the jokes all came one after another so you couldn't enjoy it all.

  Another problem was charm like Despicable Me 2 it didn't carry the too much charm. The characters were charming but nothing in the movie touched you. I don't mean in terms of intense sadness or anything you associate the phrase "it hit me in the feels" but in terms of joy and lasting impression. While Despicable Me 1 hit you in the feels it also hit you in the smiles.


I give this movie a 6/10~ good animation, setting and characters yet it the comedy was 50/50,  pacing was horrible and wasn't that charming.


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