Spin-off piffle

Rating: 6/10 (5 March 2018)

While the Minions were amusing characters in the "Despicable Me" films, they can't carry a movie on their own. The opening sequence about their evolution and ongoing search for an evil overload was imaginative filler, but once the main story took over, the movie degenerated into a series of repetitious sight gags, only some of which were particularly funny (such as the minions riding the Queen's corgis). Neither Sandra Bullock's "Scarlett Overkill" nor Jon Hamm's "Herb Overkill", the principal speaking characters, added much to the story and I quickly grew tired of the Minion gibberish/language. Comedy may be the most subjective of genres, so this is especially "IMO" but, unlike "Despicable Me" (2010), I didn't find "Minions" to be either particularly humorous or particularly entertaining (never-the-less, it made a boatload of money, so others must have).