Stretched out gag

Rating: 5/10 (29 July 2015)

After the tremendous success of Despicable Me and a sort of cult following for the minions (those things are everywhere!) we get a spin off movie that belongs entirely to the evil little yellow creatures.
I'm gonna be completely honest, I'd be lying if I said this movie didn't crack me up in more than a few occasions. Yes, the jokes are childish and dumb, but some of them were really funny. The only problem is all of this happened within the first 30 minutes of the movie. The truth is the movie does wear down a little bit after the first act, but the main reason I didn't enjoy most of Minions was I got sick of the Minions themselves. I think the problem with this movie is they stretched the joke way too much. The Minions were hilarious in Despicable Me, yes, but it worked so well because they only appear for a relatively small portion of that film. In this movie, we see what is basically the same gibberish-fueled jokes for nearly 90 minutes and it grows old.
I have to give this movie credit for making me legitimately laugh in quite a few scenes in the beginning and for the great job they did in placing the story in the late 1960's, the music was great and it was an OK depiction of that time. But the movie does grow old fast, the plot doesn't make much sense, so I can't really say Minions was a satisfying movie experience for me, personally.