Minions

Saturday 26th June - 12:10pm Leigh

KING BOB!

Taking over from the success of the Despicable Me franchise, the little yellow babbling fellows get their own prequel.  Based 63 years before Gru, the Minions are looking for the biggest and baddest master to serve.  Through Tyrannosaur, Cavemen, Vampires and yeti, to Scarlett Overkill, the baddest female super villain ever, our titular heroes are pushed into committing the heinous crime of stealing the crown of our beloved queen so Scarlett can self proclaim regal status.

With the minions being the far funnier parts of the DM films, they only had small parts to play (although a little bigger in DM2), I was a little concerned how a 90 minute film of nonsensical babbling would fair.  At certain points it did feel like I was watching a foreign film without subtitles, whilst heavily drunk....but it does work.

There are many, many laugh out loud moments in Minions and the three main characters have a great connection with each other.  Scarlett is a standard bad guy with a huge climatic battle to end so nothing new or groundbreaking there, but I laughed from beginning to end, and sometimes, I really laughed.

There is a lull in the mid section, the jokes seemed to feel a little forced and as I mentioned the babbling got a little incoherent

Stuart, Bob and Kevin are definite staples in modern society now, with them appearing in more tv adverts, posters, supermarkets, McDonald's, in fact pretty much everywhere.  I don't think asking for a banana will ever be the same again