There's Something About those Minions .....

Rating: 7/10 (24 July 2015)

There is something about those minions, that has grasped my own (and almost everyone else's) attention. And this movie (given with it's title) deliverers all that it states..... Minions!. This film brought me a large amount of joy. I will be honest in stating, that before the lights went out and the film started to play. I was jumping in & out of my seat in excitement to see some 'minion-lovin' fun. And as said, this film delivered its justice.... sadly only in some areas. As I said before the film does deliver what it promises in its title... Minions. But there is a good side and bad side to only giving your audience one thing, and one thing only.
I honestly had high hopes for this film. As any child, parent, or a '6 year old at heart' twenty year old would. Yet somehow it lost me. Everyone who has contact with the out side world, would know about the Minions from 'Despicable Me'. And as they were so largely loved, they were successful enough to gain their own movie. And that is what this film feels like. The directors have taken in too much of the idea that the Minions are famous, and forgot to put in any real plot or emotion toward it. I'll be honest in saying that "yes, I did laugh". However as many times as I did laugh, the times I indeed truly laughed, and it wasn't a force of a laugh. It was always aimed in one general area. That area being, not at our heroes 'Kevin', 'Bob', and 'Stuart', but in fact the minions in between the chaos of those three (the minions that were left back 'home' and weren't our main character's). This being because they were Minion's!. Not force a laugh out of a child to gain an honest buck Minion. But the Minion's we fell in love with from the first two 'Despicable Me' film's. The maker's of this film tried too hard to make a successful children's movie, that they forgot what made their Minions iconic in the first place.
Now I know what your thinking "But wait, how did Sandra Bullock do?", well I will tell you. Although having a big name like Sandra Bullock may bring in the 'odd older viewer', sadly she didn't save this film. Now don't get me wrong I love Sandra Bullock (honestly some of her movies, give me revisits to when I was a child). Yet the writing of her character (even though a villain) wasn't funny or interesting at all. It just seemed like her character was there to seem like a first pain-of-a-boss to the Minions, and that's all that character did for me.
I don't want to say "don't go and see this film". Because obviously everyone has their own opinion, and because I do agree it was a laugh. But if you will take my advice do not go into the theater (or DVD store, depends on when your'e reading this) with extremely high hopes, based on your knowledge from the Minions from the 'Despicable Me' franchise. If it is possible don't go in with any hope's at all. Go in knowing you may or may not laugh, practically don't have any expectations. Just enjoy the film and see what it does for you, in your own 'taste' and 'humor'. You never know what having a clear mind can do for your judgement (that is if you wish to judge at all).