Minions
Since the dawn of time tiny yellow creatures known as Minions have walked the earth. Driven by a need to serve the most aggressive or mean spirited boss they can find, the Minions have traversed centuries helping in the evil quests of their superiors; now, after a rough stretch of failures and years of isolation the Minions are ready to re-enter the world. Minions Stuart, Kevin, and Bob are released to the world in search of a new big boss, Super villain Scarlet Overkill (Sandra Bullock) might just be the the boss they’re looking for; but just how far will her plans of world domination actually materialize?
Directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda, this overreaching attempt at fleshing out a 90+ minute screenplay from about 20 minutes of actual plot misses many points on the way up as also the way down. And, sadly the comedic hits per minute count only manages to return on investment marginally; rather, a return to the same wellspring of ideas proves to work on only one aptitude level, low, mom and dad you’re bound to be less enthused with this one, young audiences on the other hand will eat this up. Pass. Minions is rated PG.