Minions
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Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world.
What critics thought
Critics were genuinely split on whether the Minions could sustain a feature on their own, with most finding the slapstick funny in bursts but exhausting at length. The sharpest divide was between those who found the relentless chaos charming nonsense and those who felt the film was cynically engineered franchise product — memorable characters dissolved into a delivery mechanism for merchandise. Audiences embraced it far more warmly than critics did.
“Minions has idiosyncratic roots, but it's a franchise play all the way. Finally, even 5-year-olds have their own movie that mechanically cashes in on something they loved when they were younger”
Jesse Hassenger·The A.V. Club
“Impressive as it is that the filmmakers get so much comedic mileage out of their characters' half-intelligible prattling, the conventional dialogue is bafflingly flat”
Tom Russo·The Boston Globe
“It's not whether this prequel can mint money; that's a given. The questions is: Can the minions carry a movie all by their mischievous mini-selves? 'Fraid not”
Peter Travers·Rolling Stone
“There's plenty of high-velocity comic inanity on display to keep kids happily diverted. But the movie's major flaw is an extension of its own premise: Search as they may, the minions never find a villain worthy of their subservience”
Christopher Orr·The Atlantic
“Minions is every bit as cute as it's supposed to be, a happily empty-headed animated frolic that rarely pauses to take a breath”
The Detroit News
Parents guide
- Violence
- mild
- Sex
- mild
- Profanity
- none
- Substances
- none
- Intensity
- mild
Genres
Adventure, Animation, Comedy
Cast & Crew
Kyle BaldaDirector
Pierre CoffinDirector
Sandra BullockScarlet Overkill (voice)
Jon HammHerb Overkill (voice)
Michael KeatonWalter Nelson (voice)
Allison JanneyMadge Nelson (voice)
Steve CooganProfessor Flux / Tower Guard (voice)
Jennifer SaundersThe Queen (voice)
Geoffrey RushNarrator (voice)
Steve CarellYoung Gru (voice)Pierre CoffinMinions (voice)
Katy MixonTina (voice)
Michael BeattieVNC Announcer / Walter Jr. (voice)
Hiroyuki SanadaSumo Villain (voice)
Heitor PereiraComposer
Brian LynchWriterMinions
Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world.
What critics thought
Critics were genuinely split on whether the Minions could sustain a feature on their own, with most finding the slapstick funny in bursts but exhausting at length. The sharpest divide was between those who found the relentless chaos charming nonsense and those who felt the film was cynically engineered franchise product — memorable characters dissolved into a delivery mechanism for merchandise. Audiences embraced it far more warmly than critics did.
“Minions has idiosyncratic roots, but it's a franchise play all the way. Finally, even 5-year-olds have their own movie that mechanically cashes in on something they loved when they were younger”
Jesse Hassenger·The A.V. Club
“Impressive as it is that the filmmakers get so much comedic mileage out of their characters' half-intelligible prattling, the conventional dialogue is bafflingly flat”
Tom Russo·The Boston Globe
“It's not whether this prequel can mint money; that's a given. The questions is: Can the minions carry a movie all by their mischievous mini-selves? 'Fraid not”
Peter Travers·Rolling Stone
“There's plenty of high-velocity comic inanity on display to keep kids happily diverted. But the movie's major flaw is an extension of its own premise: Search as they may, the minions never find a villain worthy of their subservience”
Christopher Orr·The Atlantic
“Minions is every bit as cute as it's supposed to be, a happily empty-headed animated frolic that rarely pauses to take a breath”
The Detroit News
Parents guide
- Violence
- mild
- Sex
- mild
- Profanity
- none
- Substances
- none
- Intensity
- mild
Genres
Adventure, Animation, Comedy
Cast & Crew
Kyle BaldaDirectorPierre CoffinDirectorSandra BullockScarlet Overkill (voice)Jon HammHerb Overkill (voice)Michael KeatonWalter Nelson (voice)Allison JanneyMadge Nelson (voice)Steve CooganProfessor Flux / Tower Guard (voice)Jennifer SaundersThe Queen (voice)Geoffrey RushNarrator (voice)Steve CarellYoung Gru (voice)Pierre CoffinMinions (voice)Katy MixonTina (voice)Michael BeattieVNC Announcer / Walter Jr. (voice)Hiroyuki SanadaSumo Villain (voice)Heitor PereiraComposerBrian LynchWriterStream
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