Slapstick at its best

Rating: 8/10 (21 July 2015)

To remove all doubts, this is no masterpiece, no one making it pretends it is. This is simply a good fun movie that doesn't insult its viewers intellect. About 90 minutes of shameless slapstick, that's both clever and never resorts to vulgarity, even though some fart jokes do squeeze in. As far as I'm concerned this is as good as directing animation can get, considering the fact that one of the two directors does the minion's voices this means more than just technical knowhow and good control over the movie's pace. This is good comedy, and comedy as we all know "is hard". So don't underestimate some plain good fun and the absence of pretension is in my book one more big plus. Bottom line, for me, this is the best animation movie I've seen this year, tied with Big Hero 6, though it's considered 2014. I simply count the last 12 months.