Post number 9 and we come back to cartoons as we look at the film Minions.

If you’ve avoided the sea of merchandise here’s a rundown, Minions are small yellow creatures that were made to serve evil masters; they originally appeared in the two Despicable Me films working for evil scientist Gru. The Minions themselves have relatively mundane names such as Stuart, Bob and Kevin and communicate using a speech pattern that sounds like gibberish; they serve the two films as comic relief but their popularity expanded beyond their original film which is why we ended up with their own movie.
The story begins as an origin story which contradicts Despicable Me as in that film Gru created the Minions but in this film they’ve been around since the dawn of time and have served every kind of evil mastermind from Dinosaurs to Napoleon with little to no success usually accidently killing their master; when all hope is lost the previously mentioned Stuart, Bob and Kevin, travel to the civilised world of 1968 to try and find a master they can serve, as luck would have it they stumble on the Villains convention where a showcase from Scarlet Overkill persuades them to join her.
Scarlet wants to steal the crown jewels and asks for the Minions help to do it, but a series of unfortunate events ends up making Bob King, but immediately abdicates in favour of Scarlet, but Scarlet feels betrayed enough to take revenge on the Minions and locks them in the dungeon but after escaping and trying to apologize to Scarlet they interrupt her coronation leading to a final fight between Scarlet and the Minions.
What Minions does right is the opening sequence and the Minions themselves despite being comedy relief could actually hold a film together but are plagued by other poor design choices.
Scarlet Overkill has a bad case of over acting, she started pretty well but gradually got worst as the film went on and choosing to set the film in 1968 is a strange choice as most people old enough to remember that year are probably not the target audience for this film so references are wasted here, but is it a good film?
It’s stupid fun. That’s all it needed to be and it at least achieves that goal; it’s not ground breaking, nor does it rely on a complex narrative, it’s just about yellow pill shaped creatures trying and failing to serve an evil villain and that’s all it needed to be and that’s what it achieved.