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"Minions" doesn't really have anything new to offer, aside from crassly commercializing the yellow side players in the "Despicable Me" movies. You sort of accept that going in. Personally, I've always been fond of the little pill-shaped bastards, which is why I enjoyed this movie. It's 90 minutes of exactly what you'd expect from them and it turns out that's enough to sustain a whole movie. The cast is great, despite the miscast Sandra Bullock (not a slight, I like her) and the humor is just right for a light-as-it-gets Summer movie. The '60s setting also worked surprisingly well.Honestly, as toy commercials go, you could do a whole lot worse. 7/10

In a prequel to despicable me set in 1968, set 42 years before the story of gru introduces the background of the lovable minions. They evolved from a single called yellow pill shaped organism whose purpose is to serve the most evil master they can find. Despite various attempts to find a master to serve that have ended up in disaster such as the dinosaurs, caveman, Dracula, Napoleon Bonaparte, and the Egyptians they remain more determined than ever to find a new master after falling into a funky more of depression, three of the minions named Kevin, bob, and Stuart traveled to New York to attend the villain con convention and meet Scarlett overkill a bad ass female henchwoman and hope she would be their new master. I will say what I liked about the film was how the humor was branded towards the adults and kids.