Despicable Me.

Rating: 8/10 (20 November 2015)

With Christmas coming up,I started looking round with a friend for presents that she could pick up for her kids.Taking a look on Amazon UK,I noticed that Minions was about to come out on DVD.With her and the kids having not gotten the chance to see the Minions on the big screen,I felt that it was the perfect time to meet the "despicable" Minions.
The plot:
Coming out of the ocean before the arrival of humans,the Minions have an urge to be the henchmen for whatever is the most evil thing on earth at that time.Working with everyone over centuries from a T- Rex to Napoléon,the Minions notice that instead of helping the baddies to win,they have accidentally been causing them to lose.Not knowing where their place in the world is,the Minions decide to hide in a cave for decades.
1968:
Believing that the must be some super villain who would want them as henchmen,Kevin and fellow Minions Stuart & Bob decide to step into the great outdoors and go in search of a baddie.Finding themselves on the road with no good or evil in sight,the Minions soon begin to dream about being henchmen,when they see a poster for the "Villain- Con" event.
View on the film:
Backed by a superb soundtrack rolling out The Who and The Doors and featuring cameos from The Beatles & Stanley Kubrick,directors Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda give the film a lavish slap-stick Comedy atmosphere,thanks to the wild yellow dashes being joined by royal purples and burning lava.Whilst the characters are given a rubbery appearance,the directors give the locations an impressive amount of detail,which gives the chases and a "Minionzilla" fight scenes a frantic energy.
Facing the challenge of dedicating a movie to characters who speak a fake language, (with no subtitles!)the screenplay by Brian Lynch smartly sets the Minions (all brilliantly voiced by director Pierre Coffin) on a road movie backdrop,which along with allowing the film to travel from the Flower Power US to Ye Olde England,also allows Lynch to give each of the lead Minions their own running great gag,which goes from guitar hero Stuart to teddy bear holding Bob.Whilst they are not the centre of attention, Lynch cleverly uses human to give the title a light plot which keeps the comedy from the Minions on track,as Scarlet Overkill (played by a very good Sandra Bullock-taking on her first "baddie" role) hits the Minions with a wicked smile,as the Minions discover how despicable a supervillain can be.