No spoilers this time.
I was fairly keen for this one.
I like the Despicable Me series and I think the minions were a nailed on case for a spin off.
One of the problems with this movie is that they have tried to use the Minions language as a tool. Bits of it you can actually understand, sometimes it steals just enough French to make sense, sometimes Spanish, often it is just a funny sounding noun that doesn't quite fit. Then they use the other characters for exposition, which means everyone around them is spending time trying to explain what is going on, rather than just get on with it.
The other major issue I have is limiting it to just following the three minions. Part of why they work is their sheer number and the interchangeability of them all. That means you can do silly crowd activities like their special 'banana' videos or you can have them all dress up differently or act stupidly, without it reflecting on a single minion personality. Picking three of them means they have to have individual personalities.
The plot is also a bit patchy, the villain, just isn't very villainous, the best bits are all in the trailer, New York and Orlando and London are all wasted as locations. The historic sections are all in the trailers and the 60s are wasted as well, I do wonder if the date was chosen just for the one useful pay off in the last scene and no-one thought to sit down and consider what else they could include.
It was just a little bit average all round.
Overall 6 out of 10.
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