Scarlett Overkill: Work for me, and all this will be yours: respect, power…
Stuart the Minion: Banana!
Scarlett Overkill: …Banana!

The kids have been obsessed with Despicable Me recently, so of course we’d have to get back to the Minions.

On the surface, this is a movie that makes a lot of sense (take the cute little guys that were a breakout hit in Despicable Me and give them their own movie) and at the same time… no sense at all (for the same reason).

So here we go. The backstory for where they came from (sort of), what they need (which doesn’t make much sense), and what they’ve done to get there. Plus, we get a broader look at that whole world of villains behind the scenes. With the villain bank from the first movie, we already knew it was there, but seeing an entire villain con with minion booths and groupies? It works.

Which I think, really, is because for most of the movie we’re focusing on three Minions–and rather than the more or less interchangable blobs of the Despicable Me movies, these have unique names and personalitites. Worldbuildingwise, it’s a little weird, but it does actually make for a decent movie.

Although on the other hand, I really did miss Gru and the girls. The Minions best shine with them.

Overall, it’s a fun enough movie. Surprising that it worked at all. I’m sure we’ll pick up the rest of them before too long.

Onward!

Side note: Watching this relatively soon after Mad Man is kind of hilarious. With Draper and Herb being the same actor. Also, the narrator is Geoffrey Rush? Fascinating.

Heck. There’s also Sandra Bullock as Scarlet Overkill and Michael Keaton and Allison Janney as the Nelsons. A lot of people I recognize from other people–except it’s animated, so I only caught a few of them by their voices. Weird sometimes.