Watch if you have ADD; otherwise: AVOID!

Rating: 3/10 (15 September 2016)

This movie may seem harmless in its content, but where it's toxic is where it decides to use its story and direction to make clear that it doesn't care about kids' potential intellect for subtlety. Minions doesn't give anything the audience doesn't realize it wants: it just plays it safe with fart-jokes and gibberish (the yellow-people's gimmick to start off with) and pop-cultural references because it is an empty shell with nothing to show for itself. It suffers from Shrek the Third-itis, where the movie doesn't care that it exists as long as it makes money and exploits the families paying to see this crap. The story, if there is any really, is just focusing on sentient yellow tic-tacs and their 'struggle' to find a villain they can follow blindly: fitting metaphor for impressionable kids who haven't watched PIXAR movies yet (REAL CGI animation done right, with actual story)! This is a product, not a movie. It may look nice, but save the Abbey Road reference there is nothing really valuable about the movie.