Limited spin off and poor story

Rating: 4/10 (5 August 2015)

Went to see this with my family including two sons, 7 and 13. That is usually the reason I go to see animated films of course, though as parents they are usually the only reasons to actually get to a cinema.
Sadly, although I was quite looking forward to this one, it was a let- down. The best feature (to start positive) was the incredible skill of the animation - but that's also kind of a given these days, isn't it?
On to the bad aspects - there's a huge lack of story involved here, unless you can call some fairly random events and experiences a 'story'. The lack of real language holds the minions back as characters. Not as much a problem when they were only 'supporting' characters. Some scenes and jokes do not seem child friendly to me either - too retro or borderline inappropriate (torture being funny?). My kids didn't laugh all that much either when watching.
Perhaps it had something, as I was browsing IMDb afterwards and felt like adding my first review due to this film. It is kind of sad that fiction work can often lack funding when these sort of movies never will.