movie review: Minions

Watched ‘Minions’ last night — it was pretty good. I liked the crime family (wow, that’s a weird thing to write…), the one that drove them to Orlando and then kept showing up cheering for them along the way.

A lot of it seemed to be based on the ‘wouldn’t it be fun to reference a bunch of historical events from the 1960s’ premise, which wasn’t super true for me? I do best with movies like ‘Minions’ when I can pretend they take place in a completely alternate universe, so direct references tend to strain my ability to suspend disbelief.

On the other hand, I laughed every time there were corgis on screen, so there’s that. Very predictably, I also liked the rat.

I think my ideal movie would have been the one that took place directly after this one — bb!Gru growing up surrounded by minions who were constantly getting him into (and out of) trouble.

Overall: watchable! Definitely a visual movie, since the minions communicate a lot with props and expressions. And it made me feel a little better about the minions’ role in the other movies, although their backstory is weird as heck (are they immortal? still very unclear on that).

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.