Ruined it?


Despicable Me had been blessed with cinema's most highly regarded achievement, "Remember-able Characters" and the world wide reception of the Minion characters for their distracting 1 min of slap stick comedy was gold.

I mean c'mon who wouldn't love gibberish speaking yellow aliens goofing around. but that's it sadly. the character's major strength is in being the sidekick, and popping once a min to show they exist. that's what DM so frigging amazing.

and then came DM2 which was good too, but not so much as the original, but I could sense that Hollywood wanted to franchise the minions by making them a plot related subject. but it did good. why? because the main they still are the side roles.

now the biggest problem you face when you give a side character a full 1:30 hr role.

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I mean it was mere torture listening semi-Mexican gibberish, to the point it was not funny anymore, but sad! hence they brought in the whole England arc.

oh and we don't even know what these things are, I mean here we have these pre-historic walking talking glowsticks that pre-date the dinosaurs and they just fiddle into town, ask a cabee to take them to orlando and the people go like "meh!"

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I love both Despicable Me films (especially the second) - But Minions is awful. Reason: It doesn't feel like a film with a sense of pace as much as it feels like it's just jogging towards the ending credits with a series of rejected ideas from the Despicable Me films...

Thing is, I didn't even enter the theater with huge expectations. I knew Gru and his family wouldn't be in it. I knew the main characters wouldn't have a whole lot of Aaron Sorkinesque conversations. I just wanted to laugh. There were a few minor laughs but when they took the action to London -- my birthplace btw -- I knew it was going nowhere.

How Minions made over a billion dollars? Beats me.

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one word "Merchandising".. I mean I kid you not I have seen minion themed cookies at bakeries.. they already made the film's "break even" in merchandising.

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