The Minions

I would never have guessed that I would go to the movie theater to watch yellow jumping beans, but I did. The gags work excellently with the kids and adults will be delighted with the mass of references to important events, especially those relevant to the UK. Probably I will never watch this again, but occasionally it was rather entertaining. (01/07/2015)

Well, yes, it's infantile, but not nearly as much as I feared (after the second Despicable Me). Jokes for young and old, great music, the simplest possible story, yet also a surprisingly evolving story, great dubbing - both the original and the Czech... And an ending that makes you want to immediately watch the first Despicable Me. Then why not? (22/11/2015)

I have nothing against them, I like them very much, but the Minions didn’t deserve such a tragic story for their first solo outing. The opening, when the hyperactive yellow creatures travel across history, works brilliantly and delivers exactly what we were looking forward to. The rest, due to the extremely unlikeable plot and the absence of any at least partially adult jokes, is just an artificially set-up mush, where it becomes more and more painfully apparent that the "outlandish" humour is suitable only for punchy shorts, not for ambitious feature films. I really feel sorry for all the parents who had to endure this with their children in the cinema – although seeing the kids’ enthusiasm is certainly a sufficient patch; at least from this point of view this film has my partial admiration... (26/11/2015)

After watching the trailer, I was expecting it to be a really impressive experience, but unfortunately, I only realized that trailers often reveal too much. In this case, almost all the best scenes appeared in the preview. This is simply a problem of the film industry. The movie entertained me, but it's just nothing exceptional. Not when you see the best parts even before the actual screening, like in a promotional shot. (28/06/2015)

Hmm, so that turn out very well... It seems to me that Minions is nothing more than a vehicle for making money and so nobody bothered much with it. Luckily I have a weakness for animated movies, so it scraped together 3*. I thought the plot was completely dumb, so, instead of "family", I would describe this as suitable for kids. It was nice to learn where the Minions originated etc., but that’s more or less the only good idea in this movie, otherwise it was void of anything interesting. But those yellow lozenges aren’t enough to build a whole movie on. (10/11/2015)