Unfortunately, the human characters aren’t as successful It takes more than just a little bit of slapstick or a funny way to speak to make the movie work. It doesn’t help that sometimes the sketches and situations the Minions have found themselves in are not always that funny. The film does a fairly decent job of this but it is to the detriment of the overall story which is very flimsy and doesn’t always make much sense. The issue is, you have to get them into these funny situations in plausible ways. The opening sequence which traces the history of the Minions is very well done considering how much time it quickly covers (it was just a shame they used all this footage in the trailer for the movie) and the scenes inside Buckingham Palace highlight how good the Minion characters really are. The opening sequence highlights what’s great about the Minions It seems like a silly question but if the story is used like it is in the Minion movie, to loosely hang sketches and situations for our characters to get themselves involved in, you soon realise that maybe you can forgo a good story if the film is entertaining enough without it. How much you enjoy the Minions will depend entirely on whether you think a good story is important for a movie. They were definitely a highlight and their increased inclusion in the second movie helped but as you watch their solo-outing, you soon realise how important the other ingredients in the Despicable Me movies are – likeable human characters and a decent story. A lot of people will argue that the Minions were the best aspect of both Despicable Me movies.

Minions 2015 movie review