Actually not a bad movie despite the minions

Rating: 7/10 (4 May 2020)

It's been pretty trendy recently to hate the Despicable Me movies because Illumination is kind of trash. And to be honest I hate Illumination too and I think they deserve the criticism. But at the same time, the first Despicable Me movie was overshadowed by all this when in reality it doesn't deserve the same treatment. Despicable Me is a pretty good movie.
I love the plot of an evil villain using three orphan girls to complete his evil plan and then accidentally starting to care about them and questioning being evil.
The story's pretty fun, the minions aren't obnoxious, and overall you're left with a pretty decent animated movie. Is it perfect? No. But it definitely doesn't deserve what the rest of the movies do. This one is good.