"Doesn't it feel so good to be bad?"

Rating: 7/10 (26 January 2019)

Gosh, I'm fascinated to see how critical a lot of the reviews for this movie are. Quite honestly, I don't watch animated flicks to pick them apart for how bad they are, I'm just looking for a little entertainment. I think the Minions are an incredibly cute bunch that resonate very comically with their Minionese gibberish. The film and story were OK by me, I liked the Sixties soundtrack with a little Turtles, a little Doors, a little Hendrix and a little Monkees, with a nice nod to the Beatles with the Abbey Road sequence. I have to be honest though about the celebrity voice cast, it's entirely lost on me, as I don't research who's doing what character before watching, and can't really identify them while the picture's in progress. It's an opinion I've shared before in some of my other reviews, and it wouldn't make a bit of difference to me if the characters were voiced by some unknowns looking to break into the business. The only thing that bothered me about the picture, if that's the right word, is that the Minions were on an ages long search for a villain boss. Why a villain boss, when the little, yellow corn balls are such a delight otherwise? I actually have a five year old nephew that looks just like one of these Minions, without being oval and jaundiced looking. He even talks a little bit like a Minion, which is more a function of my hearing impediment than his elocution. All I can say is, you can have some fun with this flick if you aren't as critical as some of the haters out there. Gee, lighten up a bit, it's for the kiddies.