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Movie ID: 828
RT slug: minions
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/minions
Release year: 2015
Runtime: 91 mins
Wide release date: 2015-07-10
Limited release date: —
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: 2016-08-10
Tomatometer final: 55%
Audience score final: 49%
Genres: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
Directors: Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin
Writers: Brian Lynch
Producers: Christopher Meledandri, Janet Healy
MPAA rating: PG
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-06-18 18:55:09
Updated: 2026-06-18 18:55:09
Evolving from single-celled yellow organisms at the dawn of time, Minions live to serve, but find themselves working for a continual series of unsuccessful masters, from T. Rex to Napoleon. Without a master to grovel for, the Minions fall into a deep depression. But one minion, Kevin, has a plan; accompanied by his pals Stuart and Bob, Kevin sets forth to find a new evil boss for his brethren to follow. Their search leads them to Scarlet Overkill, the world's first-ever super-villainess.
The Minions' brightly colored brand of gibberish-fueled insanity stretches to feature length in their self-titled Despicable Me spinoff, with uneven but often hilarious results.
Canonical reviews: 222
Canonical fresh: 123
Canonical rotten: 99
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 55%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-06-18 15:44:48
Snapshot Tomatometer: 55%
Snapshot review count: 222
Snapshot fresh count: 123
Snapshot rotten count: 99
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| Illumination Entertainment | production |
| Illumination Mac Guff | production |
| Billing | Name | Character |
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| 1 | Sandra Bullock | Scarlet Overkill |
| 2 | Jon Hamm | Herb Overkill |
| 3 | Michael Keaton | Walter Nelson |
| 4 | Allison Janney | Madge Nelson |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 181206 | Don Shanahan | Every Movie Has a Lesson | Rotten | 0/5 | 2025-07-20T21:08:57Z | 2025-07-20 21:08:57 | I see a movie so annoying that I would punch my own child in the face for wanting to watch it over and over. |
| 181207 | Zoë Rose Bryant | Loud and Clear Reviews | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-09-01T01:31:27Z | 2022-09-01 01:31:27 | Minions may not have the purposeful plotting of a Pixar film or the wondrous world-building of a work from Walt Disney Animation, but its hyperactive sense of humor and absurdist antics are admittedly amusing nevertheless. |
| 181208 | Keith Garlington | Keith & the Movies | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-08-24T14:46:50Z | 2022-08-24 14:46:50 | The youngster target audience will probably love every minute of “Minions”. I was with them to a point, but once the story abandoned the quest to find a master it bogged down and the humor grew inconsistent. |
| 181209 | Cory Woodroof | 615 Film | Fresh | — | 2022-07-17T16:03:51Z | 2022-07-17 16:03:51 | Life is short. Minions was fun. What am I supposed to do? |
| 181210 | Brian Eggert | Deep Focus Review | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2022-06-09T03:18:52Z | 2022-06-09 03:18:52 | They're essentially pantomime characters, but unlike, say, WALL•E, the characters of limited speech here don't evoke a range of emotions. |
| 181211 | Hosea Rupprecht | Pauline Media Studies | Rotten | — | 2021-09-13T19:52:22Z | 2021-09-13 19:52:22 | Minions has a hard time holding up as a story on its own. Although the antics of Kevin, Stuart, and Bob keep the laughs coming, the story fizzles out in the middle. |
| 181212 | Mike Massie | Gone With The Twins | Rotten | 5/10 | 2020-12-04T06:35:59Z | 2020-12-04 06:35:59 | Rarely attempts to appeal directly to a grown-up audience, instead concentrating all efforts on colorful, sophomoric spectacles and rambunctious escapades. |
| 181213 | Richard Propes | TheIndependentCritic.com | Fresh | 3.0/4.0 | 2020-09-16T20:04:17Z | 2020-09-16 20:04:17 | I'll even admit that Kevin sits proudly on my desk at work while Bob, the enthusiastic young one, is staring at me even as I write this review. |
| 181214 | Damond Fudge | KCCI (Des Moines, IA) | Fresh | — | 2020-07-03T22:14:06Z | 2020-07-03 22:14:06 | Minions is a great idea, fairly competently executed, that ends up suffering at the hands of its own distributor ... All of the really funny moments that enticed me to come see the flick ended up being ALL of the really funny moments. |
| 181215 | Chris McCoy | Memphis Flyer | Rotten | — | 2020-01-10T00:52:56Z | 2020-01-10 00:52:56 | Let's start with what Minions gets right: It's a mercifully short 93 minutes long. But even at that length, it still feels padded. |
| 181216 | Ard Vijn | ScreenAnarchy | Rotten | — | 2020-01-10T00:52:55Z | 2020-01-10 00:52:55 | The plot gets ever more convoluted, the jokes ever more lazy, hinging mostly on country stereotypes. Some of the best gags have zilch to do with either the story or the minions, come out of nowhere and lead to nothing. |
| 181217 | Debbie Lynn Elias | Behind The Lens | Fresh | — | 2019-12-08T19:20:54Z | 2019-12-08 19:20:54 | Just put on a happy face with Minions! |
| 181218 | Ryan Syrek | The Reader (Omaha, NE) | Fresh | C+ | 2019-07-09T20:33:18Z | 2019-07-09 20:33:18 | Considering that this prequel is a full-length feature film about characters incapable of coherent dialogue, it certainly isn't as miserable as the calculated nature of its creation suggested. What a ringing endorsement, right? |
| 181219 | Mattie Lucas | The Dispatch (Lexington, NC) | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2019-07-05T20:08:51Z | 2019-07-05 20:08:51 | Everything about it is a weak excuse to give the Minions something outlandish to do, but there isn't a particularly strong thread running through any of it. |
| 181220 | David Brake | One Room With A View | Fresh | 3/5 | 2019-05-07T23:21:32Z | 2019-05-07 23:21:32 | An endless roll of jokes ensures this is sublime dumb-but-smart entertainment. |
| 181221 | Rachel Wagner | rachelsreviews.net | Rotten | D | 2019-03-12T19:52:48Z | 2019-03-12 19:52:48 | The worst thing about it is it just isn't funny at all and the story is all over the place. |
| 181222 | Kent Garrison | Mad About Movies Podcast | Rotten | F | 2019-02-23T19:30:15Z | 2019-02-23 19:30:15 | This film should be prefaced by a warning message like you'd find on a pack of cigarettes... "BEWARE: Long-Term Exposure to the Minions Could Carry Serious Health Risks." |
| 181223 | Micheal Compton | Bowling Green Daily News | Rotten | C | 2019-01-23T00:33:10Z | 2019-01-23 00:33:10 | Minions will definitely appeal to its target audience -- the slapstick humor is right in the wheelhouse for children. The problem is the film doesn't have enough to maintain the interest of adults who come along with the kiddies. |
| 181224 | Anne Brodie | What She Said | Fresh | 3/5 | 2018-08-30T21:55:43Z | 2018-08-30 21:55:43 | Pacing is problematic; there may be too much Minionism and too little relief. The comic set pieces aren't threaded together at points, but there are many smiles to be had. |
| 181225 | Lisa Johnson Mandell | AtHomeInHollywood.com | Fresh | — | 2018-08-22T21:03:23Z | 2018-08-22 21:03:23 | [It's] a film that both adults and children can enjoy together, and clever editing wraps everything up in 91 minutes-the perfect timing for a family film. |
| 181226 | Pamela Powell | Daily Journal (Kankakee, IL) | Rotten | 2/4 | 2018-08-21T21:39:08Z | 2018-08-21 21:39:08 | Parents, I would recommend sending the kids with the babysitter to this one. It's worth the price to pay for one more to go when that "one more" isn't you. |
| 181227 | Mae Abdulbaki | Punch Drunk Critics | Fresh | 2/5 | 2018-08-14T20:43:06Z | 2018-08-14 20:43:06 | One can't help but think that Minions would have been much better off being a short film rather than a full-length animated feature. |
| 181228 | Oggs Cruz | Rappler | Rotten | — | 2018-04-09T23:55:57Z | 2018-04-09 23:55:57 | It betrays its own motivation of being purely for kids with its failed endeavors to bridge its grating humor to thinking adults. |
| 181229 | Robert Kojder | Flickering Myth | Rotten | 2/5 | 2017-12-03T00:31:02Z | 2017-12-03 00:31:02 | There is only so much you can do with a bare-bones plot featuring little to no character development |
| 181230 | Matthew Bond | The Mail on Sunday (UK) | Fresh | — | 2017-10-30T20:07:02Z | 2017-10-30 20:07:02 | If it's a cheerful chuckle-along that you and your family are after, then Minions certainly fits the bill. Ba-na-nas and all. |
| 181231 | Sarah Marrs | Lainey Gossip | Rotten | — | 2017-10-14T23:01:29Z | 2017-10-14 23:01:29 | There's nothing memorable about Minions, a problem compounded by [Sandra] Bullock's completely forgettable efforts as Scarlett. |
| 181232 | Joanne Soh | The New Paper (Singapore) | Rotten | 3/5 | 2017-09-20T18:42:12Z | 2017-09-20 18:42:12 | How much more of these yellow, gibberish animated critters can we take? |
| 181233 | Brooke Corso | The Monitor (McAllen, TX) | Rotten | C+ | 2017-08-16T22:46:41Z | 2017-08-16 22:46:41 | Poor Minions. They just want an evil master with a bit of dash. They get depressed easily. I did, too. |
| 181234 | Alex Lines | Film Inquiry | Fresh | — | 2017-01-09T17:50:14Z | 2017-01-09 17:50:14 | Minions is a funny film which will be loved by the kids, with enough winks and nods for adults to be entertained during its very quick and breezy run time. |
| 181235 | Brandy McDonnell | The Oklahoman | Fresh | 3/4 | 2016-10-12T20:12:26Z | 2016-10-12 20:12:26 | The little, yellow, different Minions who split sides in two smash Despicable Me movies manage -- just barely -- to frolic through enough sight gags, pop culture references and sheer lunacy to keep their madcap 91-minute star vehicle rolling. |
| 181236 | David Nusair | Reel Film Reviews | Fresh | 3/4 | 2016-06-28T06:02:56Z | 2016-06-28 06:02:56 | ...the relatively short running time results in a general lack of lulls... |
| 181237 | Nandini Ramnath | Scroll.in | Fresh | — | 2016-06-21T16:11:52Z | 2016-06-21 16:11:52 | It's sometimes aimless, often hilarious and always silly, everything you would expect the minions to be. |
| 181238 | Mark Jackson | Epoch Times | Fresh | 3/5 | 2016-06-10T14:48:48Z | 2016-06-10 14:48:48 | The only foreseeable problem with this movie is that parents are going to have to be dealing with wee ones mimicking minion-ese for as long as this franchise shall flourish. |
| 181239 | Francesca Rudkin | New Zealand Herald | Fresh | 3/5 | 2016-05-06T15:05:41Z | 2016-05-06 15:05:41 | As a film, Minions may not be as clever or heartfelt as the Despicable Me films, but it's still plenty of fun. |
| 181240 | J. Olson | Cinemixtape | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2016-04-15T19:35:49Z | 2016-04-15 19:35:49 | When today's youth inevitably look back on their favorite tiny, yellow, goggled henchman, they won't be thinking of this movie. |
| 181241 | Marija Djurovic | Cairo360 | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2016-04-06T16:32:36Z | 2016-04-06 16:32:36 | The film eventually comes to hint at and vaguely explains the connection between Minions and Despicable Me which holds a certain satisfaction in itself, but this will certainly satisfy minion-fans, if not particularly wow the rest of us. |
| 181242 | James Mottram | South China Morning Post | Fresh | 3/5 | 2016-04-06T01:55:33Z | 2016-04-06 01:55:33 | The colourful 3D animation is as first-rate as you'd expect, with Coffin and co packing the film with rich sight gags. |
| 181243 | David Blaustein | ABC News Radio | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2015-12-30T12:13:09Z | 2015-12-30 12:13:09 | There's no denying the minions are adorable, but they're strictly for the kids. |
| 181244 | Alex Zane | The Sun (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2015-12-14T12:20:39Z | 2015-12-14 12:20:39 | This is a hugely enjoyable ride and, with Despicable Me 3 not due until 2017, provides a welcome fix of Minion-shaped hilarity to see us through till then. |
| 181245 | Marie Asner | Phantom Tollbooth | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2015-12-14T12:15:26Z | 2015-12-14 12:15:26 | As it is, Minions is one of the summer film highlights and pokes fun at just about everything. |
| 181246 | Violet LeVoit | AllMovie | Fresh | 4/5 | 2015-12-03T10:59:51Z | 2015-12-03 10:59:51 | Some gags might be saucy, in a European sort of way, but they're never crass. |
| 181247 | John Beifuss | Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | Fresh | 3/4 | 2015-11-30T09:12:51Z | 2015-11-30 09:12:51 | Divorced from the be-thankful-for-family homilies that motivate the 'Despicable Me' movies, this first solo outing for the lozenge-shaped scene-stealers improves on its predecessors: It's a Looney loop-de-loop of nonstop funny noises and sight gags. |
| 181248 | Robert Roten | Laramie Movie Scope | Fresh | C+ | 2015-11-29T11:19:46Z | 2015-11-29 11:19:46 | This third in the animated 'Despicable Me' series finds the familiar balance between villainy and heroism, silliness and relevance, but it is a bit thinner. As characters, the Minions have a lot of limitations. This is for kids only. |
| 181249 | Kam Williams | Baret News | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2015-11-21T10:12:24Z | 2015-11-21 10:12:24 | An incessant assault of mindless, mirthful mayhem with enough cultural allusions mixed in to hold the attention of adults, too. |
| 181250 | Jay Stone | Ex-Press.com | Fresh | 3/5 | 2015-11-12T08:16:45Z | 2015-11-12 08:16:45 | Like many supporting characters, the minions were better in that role: idiotic foils for Despicable Me's brooding, tormented Gru. |
| 181251 | Robert W. Butler | Kansas City Star | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2015-11-10T16:43:56Z | 2015-11-10 16:43:56 | The overall effect is mildly diverting and almost instantly forgettable. |
| 181252 | Alex Leadbeater | What Culture | Rotten | 1/5 | 2015-11-06T10:05:47Z | 2015-11-06 10:05:47 | Forget a never ending stream of superheroes or the dredging up of long-dead nostalgia properties; this is the real death-knell of modern cinema. |
| 181253 | David 'Mad Dog' Bradley | Rip It Up | Fresh | 3/5 | 2015-10-20T10:18:00Z | 2015-10-20 10:18:00 | Lightly Miniony fun throughout, this Minionish comedy should please fans of general Minionishness who don't mind the goofiest Mininionesque gags. |
| 181254 | Nick Dent | Daily Telegraph (Australia) | Rotten | 2/5 | 2015-10-20T10:17:13Z | 2015-10-20 10:17:13 | The Minions crave a strong parental figure but, as creatures of pure mischief, they don't need hugs -- and their antics quickly become tiresome. |
| 181255 | Josh Terry | Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Fresh | 3/4 | 2015-10-20T10:16:05Z | 2015-10-20 10:16:05 | Minions is a fun backstory for a popular group of sidekicks, but it really shouldn't extend beyond that. It does a good job with what it has, but it won't leave you asking for more. |
| 181256 | Brian Gibson | Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) | Rotten | — | 2015-08-31T09:02:58Z | 2015-08-31 09:02:58 | So much here's fairly uninspired, lacking depth and detail, or not so zippily zany. Mostly these underlings just underperform. |
| 181257 | Wesley Lovell | Cinema Sight | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2015-08-12T18:55:43Z | 2015-08-12 18:55:43 | Without the clever plotting of the first, the presence of the bumbling brilliance of Gru, or a wall-to-wall array of ludicrous jokes, the film almost succumbs to its own ego. |
| 181258 | Betty Jo Tucker | ReelTalk Movie Reviews | Fresh | — | 2015-08-02T06:44:28Z | 2015-08-02 06:44:28 | Backing up all the funny Minions antics is one of the best soundtracks ever and some very cute musical numbers. |
| 181259 | David Keyes | Cinemaphile.org | Rotten | 2/4 | 2015-07-31T22:52:23Z | 2015-07-31 22:52:23 | An idea is only as good as its execution, and after spending three sessions with these characters, one is left with the speculation that some ideas, perhaps, would have been better left as part of a rough draft on the printed page. |
| 181260 | Steve Persall | Tampa Bay Times | Rotten | C | 2015-07-30T11:55:43Z | 2015-07-30 11:55:43 | Minions is despicable, or maybe it's just me. |
| 181261 | Iain McNally | Starburst | Fresh | 8/10 | 2015-07-29T17:00:15Z | 2015-07-29 17:00:15 | The Minions movie is almost complete nonsense, but it's good natured, enjoyable nonsense nonetheless. |
| 181262 | Tim Brayton | Antagony & Ecstasy | Rotten | 5/10 | 2015-07-25T22:47:03Z | 2015-07-25 22:47:03 | The most impressively flavorless movie in many a long age. |
| 181263 | Rob Vaux | Sci-Fi Movie Page | Fresh | 3/5 | 2015-07-24T21:39:11Z | 2015-07-24 21:39:11 | It keeps most of its modest promises and if its shortcomings stand out, you can't say you didn't see them coming. |
| 181264 | Margot Harrison | Seven Days (VT) | Rotten | 4/10 | 2015-07-24T15:02:36Z | 2015-07-24 15:02:36 | The script barely acknowledges the apparent contradiction between their adorable innocence and their vocation of evil sycophancy, much less milk it for satire. |
| 181265 | Kevin A. Ranson | MovieCrypt.com | Fresh | 2.5/4.0 | 2015-07-24T08:55:05Z | 2015-07-24 08:55:05 | Maybe the Minions have simply worn out their welcome, but perhaps they're just more effective as proper henchmen...can we have more Gru and the girls? |
| 181266 | James Kendrick | Q Network Film Desk | Fresh | 3/4 | 2015-07-21T13:04:28Z | 2015-07-21 13:04:28 | enjoyable in all the right ways, is just clever enough to stand apart from its predecessors, and doesn't overstay its welcome |
| 181267 | Linda Cook | Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | Rotten | 2/4 | 2015-07-20T11:48:21Z | 2015-07-20 11:48:21 | If all you need to be entertained is to watch the "Minions" run around, you'll be satisfied with this spinoff/prequel. |
| 181268 | Stephen Silver | EntertainmentTell | Fresh | 3/5 | 2015-07-20T07:33:33Z | 2015-07-20 07:33:33 | Plays at times like a Muppets sketch in which every character is Beaker. |
| 181269 | Bob Grimm | Reno News and Review | Rotten | 2/5 | 2015-07-19T11:18:06Z | 2015-07-19 11:18:06 | This one burns out after the first half hour. |
| 181270 | Ben Sachs | Chicago Reader | Rotten | 2/4 | 2015-07-16T12:56:12Z | 2015-07-16 12:56:12 | I got tired of this joke before the movie ended, but I appreciate the gusto with which the filmmakers -- particularly Coffin, with his nimble vocalizations -- carried it out. |
| 181271 | Daniel M. Kimmel | North Shore Movies | Fresh | 3/5 | 2015-07-16T07:24:34Z | 2015-07-16 07:24:34 | It's a fast-paced 91 minutes that will not leave you longing for Minions, Part II but glad that you sat through this one. |
| 181272 | Josh Cabrita | The Young Folks | Rotten | 2/10 | 2015-07-15T17:32:18Z | 2015-07-15 17:32:18 | Minions should not get a free pass simply because it's a "children's film." It is an insult to both children and film. |
| 181273 | Ken Hanke | Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2015-07-15T05:31:52Z | 2015-07-15 05:31:52 | Packed with period songs and with a refreshingly unsentimental anarchic vibe, this could have been great. Unfortunately, it is seriously wanting in the villain department. |
| 181274 | Michael Sragow | Film Comment Magazine | Fresh | — | 2015-07-14T08:56:24Z | 2015-07-14 08:56:24 | In its own helter-skelter way, Minions achieves a loony symmetry. It starts with evolution and ends with revolution. |
| 181275 | Susan Granger | SSG Syndicate | Fresh | 6/10 | 2015-07-14T06:22:09Z | 2015-07-14 06:22:09 | Filled with ridiculous slapstick - which should amuse youngsters until 'Despicable Me 3' is released in the summer of 2017... |
| 181276 | Jackson Cuidon | Christianity Today | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2015-07-13T23:02:10Z | 2015-07-13 23:02:10 | I don't demand that every children's movie be the newest, best thing to ever happen to film (though neither do I assume a children's movie has to be formulaic and banal). Minions, though, is an almost aggressively hollow project. |
| 181277 | Mike McGranaghan | Aisle Seat | Fresh | 3/4 | 2015-07-13T14:01:32Z | 2015-07-13 14:01:32 | Brightly colored, inordinately silly, kind of charming, and yes, a bit one-note. Still, you know what you're getting, and if that's what you want, here it is. |
| 181278 | Liam Lacey | Globe and Mail | Rotten | 2/4 | 2015-07-13T09:22:17Z | 2015-07-13 09:22:17 | With its episodic stream of slapstick gags, Minions has moments of piquant absurdity, but mostly its shrill-but-cutesy anarchy works as a visual sugar rush for the preschool set. |
| 181279 | Scott Nash | Three Movie Buffs | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2015-07-13T07:09:11Z | 2015-07-13 07:09:11 | Lightweight entertainment that the under-10s will no doubt love, but without the subtext to make it a classic enjoyable by the whole family. |
| 181280 | Mark Dujsik | Mark Reviews Movies | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2015-07-13T01:09:57Z | 2015-07-13 01:09:57 | [The prologue] is actually a better idea for a story about these characters than the one the movie ultimately gives us. |
| 181281 | Andrea Chase | Killer Movie Reviews | Fresh | 3/5 | 2015-07-12T15:51:11Z | 2015-07-12 15:51:11 | when saddled with a supervillain who lacks panache, and a story that has so little pizzazz, there is only so much these oblong dynamos can accomplish |
| 181282 | Mathew DeKinder | Suburban Journals of St. Louis | Fresh | 4/5 | 2015-07-12T13:29:07Z | 2015-07-12 13:29:07 | While 'Minions' may lack a lot of the heartwarming depth of its predecessors, this goofy little movie is still a whole lot of fun. |
| 181283 | Christy Lemire | ChristyLemire.com | Rotten | 2/4 | 2015-07-12T08:44:51Z | 2015-07-12 08:44:51 | Fittingly, because they're pill-shaped, the Minions work best in small doses. |
| 181284 | Christopher Orr | The Atlantic | Rotten | — | 2015-07-12T06:31:02Z | 2015-07-12 06:31:02 | There's plenty of high-velocity comic inanity on display to keep kids happily diverted. But the movie's major flaw is an extension of its own premise: Search as they may, the minions never find a villain worthy of their subservience. |
| 181285 | Sean P. Means | Salt Lake Tribune | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2015-07-11T23:45:14Z | 2015-07-11 23:45:14 | "Minions" is proof that the sidekicks of the "Despicable Me" movies are, like most tiny yellow pill-like things, better in measured doses. |
| 181286 | Al Alexander | The Patriot Ledger | Rotten | C- | 2015-07-11T12:29:21Z | 2015-07-11 12:29:21 | They may look like goggle-wearing cartoon versions of the psychrotrophic Paxil, but they don't ease depression, they just cause it. |
| 181287 | Drew Taylor | The Playlist | Rotten | D | 2015-07-11T09:48:36Z | 2015-07-11 09:48:36 | This is something craftily designed to sell toys and theme park tickets and special cans of Tic-tacs. But it's not a movie. It's an eyesore. |
| 181288 | Sandy Schaefer | Screen Rant | Fresh | 2.5/5 | 2015-07-11T01:14:24Z | 2015-07-11 01:14:24 | Minions delivers just enough of what people love about the eponymous Despicable Me characters to please their fanbase - but not much else. |
| 181289 | Erick Estrada | Cinegarage | Fresh | — | 2015-07-10T19:41:11Z | 2015-07-10 19:41:11 | A comedy for all ages that stands out from a crowded genre. [full review in Spanish] |
| 181290 | Pete Vonder Haar | Houston Press | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2015-07-10T19:23:15Z | 2015-07-10 19:23:15 | The Minions always worked best in small doses. Tasked with carrying out the entire movie, they get tiresome quickly. |
| 181291 | James Verniere | Boston Herald | Fresh | B | 2015-07-10T15:42:50Z | 2015-07-10 15:42:50 | Scarlet Overkill is no Felonious Gru. The boys are irresistible, movie not so much. |
| 181292 | Radheyan Simonpillai | NOW Toronto | Rotten | 2/5 | 2015-07-10T14:21:09Z | 2015-07-10 14:21:09 | Seeing the minions end up in your Happy Meal would not have been a stretch in this absurd, tangential movie. (Actually, it would have been more to the point.) |
| 181293 | Todd Jorgenson | Cinemalogue | Rotten | — | 2015-07-10T14:16:55Z | 2015-07-10 14:16:55 | It proves that its pill-shaped protagonists who served as little yellow sidekicks in their two previous appearances aren't deserving of the spotlight. |
| 181294 | Shalini Langer | The Indian Express | Rotten | 2/5 | 2015-07-10T14:01:15Z | 2015-07-10 14:01:15 | It's doubtful if young children who are this film's primary audience may delight in either the Queen or the bad men of history. And that's just one of the issues. |
| 181295 | Neil Pond | Parade Magazine | Fresh | 3/5 | 2015-07-10T13:28:26Z | 2015-07-10 13:28:26 | It made me think of the Three Stooges recast for the modern age as pint-size, goggle-wearing, butter-hued niblets. It may not be high humor, but boy, it sure made me laugh. |
| 181296 | Soumya Srivastava | Hindustan Times | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2015-07-10T13:14:34Z | 2015-07-10 13:14:34 | While Minions are insanely cute and do offer you short spells of laughter, this is nothing to go bananas over. |
| 181297 | Mohar Basu | The Times of India | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2015-07-10T13:00:00Z | 2015-07-10 13:00:00 | Cuteness overload. |
| 181298 | Arturo Aguilar | Rolling Stone Mexico | Fresh | 2.5/5 | 2015-07-10T12:24:42Z | 2015-07-10 12:24:42 | It offers simple humor although effective.[full review in Spanish] |
| 181299 | Paul Chambers | Movie Chambers | Rotten | C | 2015-07-10T12:23:37Z | 2015-07-10 12:23:37 | It was only natural to give the little yellow pill-like creatures from "Despicable Me" their own movie. They are cute and funny most of the time, but their new film, "Minions" is loud and violent. And to many adults, it will be a noisy, yellow blur. |
| 181300 | Jordi Batlle Caminal | La Vanguardia (Spain) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2015-07-10T12:05:56Z | 2015-07-10 12:05:56 | An energetic and pleasant adventure. [full review in Spanish] |
| 181301 | Luis Fernando Galván | En Filme | Rotten | 2/5 | 2015-07-10T11:44:46Z | 2015-07-10 11:44:46 | Minions fails to deliver a moral or wise message for the kids, and it won't be interesting enough for the adult audience. [full review in Spanish] |
| 181302 | Jeanne Kaplan | Kaplan vs. Kaplan | Rotten | — | 2015-07-10T10:27:56Z | 2015-07-10 10:27:56 | Though the first few minutes of "Minions" are rather amusing, it quickly devolves into the same mean-spiritedness which abounded in "Despicable Me". |
| 181303 | David Kaplan | Kaplan vs. Kaplan | Rotten | — | 2015-07-10T10:26:22Z | 2015-07-10 10:26:22 | "Minions" does feature a "groovy" soundtrack, but it's not enough to overcome the movie's lesser elements. |
| 181304 | Monica Castillo | International Business Times | Fresh | 3/5 | 2015-07-10T09:51:25Z | 2015-07-10 09:51:25 | Minions is a cute, hyperkinetic hodgepodge of '60s jokes, a rocking soundtrack and visual puns. It's just cute and clever enough to keep the wee ones entertained and the parents nodding along to an "Abbey Road" or The Who reference. |
| 181305 | John Serba | MLive.com | Fresh | 3/4 | 2015-07-10T09:33:28Z | 2015-07-10 09:33:28 | (These movies) are higgledy-piggledy and filled with jibber-jabber - and trying to sell you snacks and bric-a-brac - but they never really sink to the level of jiggery-pokery. |
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