Sunday, December 11, 2016

Minions (2015)

  Okay.  I have now seen more episodes of Pokemon: Indigo League than I ever wanted.  We also watched Ratatouille and and episode of Voltron before putting on Minions.

The Minions evolved solely to attach themselves to the entourage of the biggest, baddest creature they could find.  After a series of mishaps, they retreat to the Arctic Circle to wait out their dry spell but quickly become despondent with no one to follow.  Kevin volunteers to leave their icy home and venture forth into the world to find a new master.  He chooses Stuart and Bob to accompany him.  They make their way through 1968 America to Orlando, Florida to attend Villain Con, a convention for supervillains.  There, they win the attention of Scarlet Overkill (Sandra Bullock), the reigning queen of evildoers, and her sidekick/love interest, Herb (Jon Hamm).  Scarlet wants to be an actual queen so she and the Minions head for England to steal the crown.  The Minions, being Minions, proceed to ruin everything.

This was much worse than either previous entry in the Minion-verse.  Jon Hamm was the only bright spot and his scenes were few and far between.  Even my god-kids were pretty much over it and they love some shitty TV shows and movies.  The only one who still likes it is the 6-year-old, and even he didn't actually sit down and watch it.  I think he only picked it because it was familiar.

1 comment:

  1. I've seen it a couple of times. It was cute the first time, but not worth a second viewing.

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