Likable

Rating: 7/10 (9 December 2015)

I watched Minions with my young children and we were all won over by the cast of funny, likable yellow creatures.
The movie has a good pace to it. It starts out with a nicely crafted montage sequence explaining the origin of the minions and tracing their eternal search for a 'boss' throughout history.
It then follows three of the minions as they leave their hideout in deepest Siberia and travel to America and then England to find their latest baddie boss, a female mastermind called Scarlet Overkill. Sadly, Overkill turns out to be pretty uninteresting and clichéd character.
Not to worry though - we never tired of the minions themselves.
The comedy is mostly slapstick with a few jokes thrown in for the adults. It's rarely laugh-out-loud funny, but it's pleasantly amusing. The scenes set in London make use of good- humoured caricatures of England, including a few cameos from the queen herself.
If you like the characters of the minions (and who doesn't?) you can't really go wrong with this movie.