Minions Movie Review

Here's the 2nd movie review after Stand by Me Doraemon.

Date: 23 June 2015
Showtime: 11.30am
Venue: Golden Village @ Jurong Point

Minions movie poster (Source: www.gv.com.sg)

I went to watch Minions at Jurong Point in the late morning.

It was a 91-minute spinoff showing the minions serving the most despicable masters but accidentally failed because of the clumsy acts that they have done to them such as the T. Rex, caveman, Egyptian pharaoh and Dracula.

Movie synopsis:

After destroying all the masters around the world, the minions isolated themselves and started a new life in Antarctica. They became depressed by the lack of the master hence a minion named Kevin came up with a plan to search for a new master. Stuart joined in by accident while Bob begged Kevin to join in as Kevin thought that he was too young. 3 minions arrived at New York 42 years B.G. (Before Gru) after a long journey. They got to know about Villain-Con, a villain convention where supervillains around the world gathered to search for a henchmen, was to be held in Orlando, Florida. Hence, they went to hitch a ride and got picked up by a family who were criminals also heading to Villain-Con.

At Villain-Con, the minions were impressed by some of the villains like a sumo wrestler and Frankie Fish Lips, an aquatic supervillain. In the end, they attempted to become the henchmen for Scarlet Overkill, the world's 1st female supervillain, and made it after Bob swapped Scarlet's ruby with his teddy bear. The minions went to London where Scarlet resided. The mission for the minions to accomplish was to steal the St. Edward's Crown for Scarlet but things didn't turn out well when the minions tried to steal the crown.

(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minions_%28film%29)

Movie review:

I first started watching Despicable Me 2 in 2013 and ended up loving the minions because they speak gibberish words (including a bit of English) that many people would never understand what they are talking about, their funny actions and reactions. As it is a spinoff, I definitely know how the story would end. The movie itself clearly shown it or else Minions would be talking about a different story.

Overall, the movie was great but I couldn't give full marks because of the trailers. The trailers first came out on July 10, 2014, a year before the U.S premiere. The trailer came out great and I laughed. However, another trailer came out showing more spoilers about what the minions had done in finding a new master and the final one showing how the minions destroyed their previous masters and more scenes about the minions serving Scarlet. As a result, when the full movie was shown, the jokes have almost been used up.

During the movie, I noticed that a scene was not shown. My guess for not showing that scene is because it is a disturbing scene particularly there are children watching this movie. Not very sure will that scene be shown in the U.S.
 

A scene shown in the final trailer of the Minions which was not shown in the Cinema. It was funny. (Source: Illumination's YouTube Channel)

What happened next turned out to be a cut. Sad! (Source: Illumination's YouTube Channel)

It was not a 5-star movie but there were some scenes that I liked and laughed like Bob shouting "King Bob!" to the crowd after becoming the king of the United Kingdom and Bob using his teddy bear to perform and making a not-so-scary mask to scare the interviewer as his evil talents.

Before the start of the movie, look out for the minions singing the Universal Pictures opening theme song.

Score: 9 (If they never put in a lot of spoilers in the trailers, maybe would have gotten a 10.)