The law of the strongest (and of those around him)

Rating: 6/10 (18 August 2019)

The intuition belongs just to the firsts two chapters of the saga. "Minions" works like more or less all the mascot spin-offs: his aim is confirm to the audience the reason of the mascot's success. So "Minions" is none other than a tracking shot of gags, supported by the fact that the yellow little monsters have to reach the despicable and associate with him. The most interesting element is in this archetypical need of survive and fraternization with the strongest specie: something of cruelly Darwinian is hidden behind the small banana-lovers. But for the rest, the line is weak: a movie to take for what it is, a funny tribute to a character impossible not to love. With also some undercurrent philosophical hint.