Cute movie that doesn't know what to do with its story

Rating: 7/10 (9 March 2016)

There's a lot of hate for this movie here, but overall I really enjoyed it. Making a movie about characters that talk in gibberish and were mainly designed for slapstick gags in a different film is not easy, but they created a whole mythology for the things (I always figured they were invented by Despicable Me's protagonist) and manage to build a story around them. And it has a lot of the same silly humor of the original films.
I'd say it was really very enjoyable for about an hour before it got away from the writers. The last half hour is hectic and doesn't make much sense, including things like a big chase scene that comes out of left field. It's a lot of noise lacking the cleverness of the first hour.
Even that last half hour though isn't bad, it's just weak, and I say, ignore the haters and take a look for yourself.