Minions was OKAY. Not good, not bad, just okay. The main problems with the film is that:

It isn’t that funny as it could’ve been

The concept of having the Minions going through time serving different villians is a hilarious
concept but it’s only in the beginning (which is the best part of the movie)

Scarlett Overkill isn’t as great a character as Gru

The minions as a tribe never really feel like a family and while Kevin, Stuart, and Bob are lovable they really don’t show that they care for one another and you don’t really care about them.

But the biggest problem is this:

The film is a spin off of Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2, two films with a lot comedy, but also a lot of heart. Minions has no heart and what heart it has there is little of it. It focuses so much on comedy that it forgets what made the previous Despicable Me films so good was the heart and relationship between the characters. You feel the heart and the relationship between Gru and the girls, or Gru and Lucy, or even Gru and the minions. With Minions you don’t feel any of that therefore, like I said before, you don’t care about the characters. I cared more for the characters in Shaun The Sheep than I did in Minions. With that film you felt the heart between the characters, you felt like they were a family, and you felt like they actually cared for each other. Minions didn’t make me feel any of that.

Look, I love the minions. I think they are both funny and a smart creation and I believe they can hold their own movie, but the movie that they got is not the movie they deserved.

I’m sorry what? What you said didn’t really make much sense. Could you please elaborate?

My favorite animated film of the year ^_^
Also, “Feels Like Summer”…if that song isn’t nominated for the Oscar tomorrow morning, I’ll be extremely pissed it’s not even funny.

Finally, Minions is garbage and my least-favorite film of 2015. It was the most pointless waste of my time at the cinema that I had all year and I saw plenty of crappy films.

I don’t know Nathan but it probably has something to do with how popular Minion was in UK this past year.

Nice list. Looks like we do share some taste lol. My list would be 1) Inside Out 2) Peanuts Movie 3) The Prophet 4) Minions 5) When Marnie Was There 6) Good Dinosaur 7) Home 8) Spongebob Out of Water 9) Hotel Transylvania 2

I am hoping for Inside Out to win the Oscar for Best Animate Feature but I’m hoping even more for a tie between IO and the Peanuts Movie.

Me too! The Peanuts Movie was all I thought it was going to be and it was a beautiful homecoming for Schulz’s legendary creations.

It was hysterical to me (no offense intended) but it wasn’t enough. Like I said earlier, next time when DM 3 comes out in 2017 the Minions will be even luckier.