![]() ![]() Or the story would have given itself more effort in sticking these comedic moments with coherency. It would have been a kid's TV show being played in the morning or something. Maybe the Minions aren't meant to have a movie at all. In spite of extending the focus of these characters who are more popular than Gru, it's still not quite a satisfying experience. The rest of the cast are committed to go over-the-top as their characters are actually written. The voice acting is only impressive when it comes to the Minions, we all knew that already from the past installments. These series of silly situations lead to the fate that we would all expect. The story eventually not gaining much of a center at all. Some dark humor sneaks in, as well, it gets a little too outrageous, but I believe it's for the sake of establishing its world of villainy. The movie centrally takes place in a new environment and time, while adequately captures the era and location, though also making unimaginative stereotyping to the British culture, but anyway. The bright, playful visuals have always been helpful in these Despicable Me movies. The comedic action on screen is undeniably enjoyable. It's just randomness after randomness, and it's sometimes losing its steam until the film finally finds another occasional great joke again after ten minutes or so. But the main story itself doesn't find any remarkable substance or any cleverness, at all. The laughs are solid, though some can feel a little forced while some can be unexpectedly tasteless, but a joke works if the film actually finds an inspired humor within itself. Now that the actual plot enters the picture, the movie now takes place where supervillains are the ones who deserve them, with three of the Minions stumbling from one misadventure to another. But this makes for a setup of putting them in desperation for having a boss after a number of failures of keeping them alive. It's a decent little origin story, even though we would rather assume them as an accidental science experiment. The Minions happen to be long-living prehistoric creatures that exist to serve any formidable master, in spite of their often incompetence. In the end, there is just nothing remarkable about it. While the gags are funny enough, it suddenly gets exhausting after a while. Unfortunately, the film doesn't find a compelling storyline for these antics to fit right through. It seems that the filmmakers don't have much of a decent idea for the original character for a while, so it's quite appropriate for them to stumble into these Minions while it lasts. So the studio basically made a spin-off mainly for them, which makes more sense than having these characters stealing the predecessor's spotlight, thus leads to a result that can be good and mostly bad. 2013's Despicable Me 2 has proved that people came back to this franchise for the striking popularity of the film's comic relief characters, the Minions. ![]()
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