Minions Movie Review

Minions (2015)

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Written by: Brian Lynch
Directed by: Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Allison Janney, Steve Coogan
Rated: PG
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Plot
Minions Stuart, Kevin, and Bob stumble into a plan to steal the crown from the Queen of England. This is a prequel to Despicable Me (2010) focused on the minions.

Verdict
It's a mindless movie that lacks any humor. Minions are great as a supporting character but their endless babbling can't carry a full length movie.
Skip it.

Review
We don't know why the minions exist, they just do. It shows the minions throughout history during dinosaurs, prehistoric times, the medieval period, and even with Napoleon. They mean well, but are rarely helpful. Their one desire is assist a villain and perform their roles as minions. Director Pierre Coffin voiced all of the more than eight-hundred minions.

Minions - The prequel no one requested.

This backstory is stretched thin. The movie is evidence that there is no good way to create a backstory for the minions. Everything is predicated on mumbling yellow blobs. They are comic relief elevated to their own movie and it just doesn't work.
Three of the minions leave home to fulfill their destiny. They find Scarlet Overkill and she will hire them if they steal the royal crown of England. Scarlet is depicted as the greatest thief in the world. Why can't she steal the crown herself? The main plot point of the movie makes no sense.
Other stuff happens then the movie ends with a cameo from young Gru, the protagonist of Despicable Me.