Review of Minions (2015) by Sonya S — 03 Dec 2015

Review:

I couldn't stop laughing through the whole of this film and the fact that the little Minions didn't even speak English, proves that expressions and gestures are good enough to tell a story. Right from the history of the Minions, at the beginning, to the bonus material on the DVD, brought a smile to my face and the way that they joined the movie with Despicable Me, was a touch of genius. Even the Bradley Wiggins looking villain, Herb Overkill, made me laugh and all of the characters funny face expressions were spot on. Anyway, the lovely little Minions keep on, mistakingly, killing there masters through many generations, so they try and live without one for a while but they soon get bored of there own company. Kevin then comes up with the smart idea to go and look for the perfect villain, so the Minions have the perfect master, but none of the Minions want to go with him except for Stuart, who is quite a little rebel and Bob who is there lovable little brother. They then hitchhike there way to America and they find out about the Villain-Con from a bank robbing family who offered them a lift. When they get to the Villain-Con in Orlando, they sight the perfect villain, Scarlet Overkill (Sandra Bullock), who can save Minionkind from total boredom and after winning a competition between many other villains, the Minions are recruited by Scarlet to get the Royal crown from the Queen of England. After bonding with there new master, they head to London and the Minions attempt to steal the crown with the help of Scarlets husband, Herb Overkill (Jon Hamm), and his handy gadgets. Whilst on the run from the Royal guards with the crown in hand, Bob pulls out a sword from a stone to tackle the guards, not realising that the person who takes the sword out of the stone, immediately becomes King so he gladly rules England along with his two friends while the rest of the Minions are struggling to survive in Antarctica. Anyway, Scarlet soon realises that the Minions are ruling England, so she convinces Bob to change the rules and appoint her to be the Queen. As she is still upset about the betrayal of the Minions for not getting the crown, she banishes them to the basement while she is taking over England. On the day of her crowning, the Minions escape from the basement and they disrupt the ceremony by causing havoc in the palace. She then gets all of the villains whose attending the crowning, to kill the Minions but Kevin shows true leadership by using his brain to outsmart the villains. I know that a lot of people preferred Inside Out to this movie but I personally think that this was much better. I was thoroughly entertained right from the get go but it does get a little crazy towards the end. There are clever little touches, like the little rat and massive dinosaur, which are very well written and each little Minion bring something different to the film. There contagious laughs always brought a smile to my face so the movie really gets the thumbs up from me. Brilliant!

Round-Up:

Because of the ending, it's doubtful that they will bring out another Minions movie, which is a shame because it's in a class of its own. The person who provided the voices for the Minions, Pierre Coffin, also directed the movie with Kyle Balda, who also co-directed the Lorax. Pierre Coffin also brought you the Despicable Me franchise, which I also enjoyed, so he must be over the moon with the success of all 3 movies. I also liked the Minions short films that came on the DVD and the Christmas sing-a-long which has the actors names who provided the voices. Anyway, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to work out that I really enjoyed this film and I can't see anyone, not finding the little Devil's hilarious. For this year, Jurassic World has taken in the most money at the box office with a whopping $1.6Billion, with Furious 7 and Avengers: Age of Ultron coming a close 2nd & 3rd and this movie is clearly in 4th place, which I personally think is well deserved. Although Inside Out is a better film in a lot of people's opinion, it comes in at 5th place in this years chart, right behind this movie. Anyway, the only reason why I didn't give this film full marks is because it does go a bit wild near the end but apart from that, I highly recommend it for all ages.

Budget: $74million.

Worldwide Gross: $1.15billion.

I recommend this movie to people who are into their animation/family/comedies starring Sandra Bullock, Michael Keaton, Steve Carell, Jon Hamm, Steve Coogan, Geoffrey Rush and Allison Janney. 8/10.