There’s no question that this is by far the weakest film in the Despicable Me series. Part of the problem, though, was that almost every one of the most genuinely funny parts was in the trailers. The movie also lacks the more grown-up jokes that animated films have generally tried to put in recently to keep parents entertained. The movie has a pretty weak story, and while Sandra Bullock does a good job as Scarlett Overkill, almost all of the other human characters in the movie are mostly forgettable, including Jon Hamm’s role as Scarlett’s husband. The Minions, it turns out, are really best in small doses as the cute supporting characters that they were in Despicable Me. Judging from the laughter I heard, and lack of crying or misbehaving that might indicate boredom, I’d say that yes, younger kids will certainly like it. While I did not go with my kids, I saw the movie in the middle of the afternoon in a theater that was about half full of families with little kids. Eventually, we end up in the 1960s (it turns out that the Minions are apparently immortal), where they are once more trying to find someone suitably evil to attach themselves to, and through a series of silly adventures they find Scarlett Overkill, voiced by Sandra Bullock, who has a ridiculous desire to steal Queen Elizabeth’s crown. A good chunk of this introduction was in the trailer, so you’ve probably already seen most of it. There’s a long introductory montage that shows them evolving from single-cell yellow organisms in the primordial soup into their modern selves, always on the quest to find and serve (and most often accidentally kill) the most evil creature they can find. The movie is supposed to serve as a sort-of prequel to the first Despicable Me, explaining where exactly the Minions came from and how they came to be in the service of Gru. Below are our eight things parents should know before taking their kids to see Minions. And so Hollywood, never a place to leave well enough alone, decided that they needed their own movie. They are also, not surprisingly, some of the most easily marketed. Most of us can probably agree that the Minions, those yellow creatures with their silly language from the Despicable Me movies, are some of the cutest characters ever introduced in film.
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