TRAILER 048 TRAILER 045 CLIP 240 CLIP 247 Play all videos What to know 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. Read critic reviews In Theaters Rent/buy Rent/buy Minions videos Minions Official Clip - The New Boss CLIP 240 Minions Official Clip - The Ultimate Weapon CLIP 247 Minions Official Clip - One Evil Family CLIP 259 Minions Official Clip - King Bob! CLIP 243 Minions Official Clip - Kevin Saves the Day CLIP 240 Minions Official Clip - Kidnapping the Queen CLIP 255 Minions Official Clip - This is Torture CLIP 215 Minions Official Clip - Many Evil Bosses CLIP 258 Minions Official Clip - Knights in Shining Denim CLIP 217 Minions Official Clip - Breaking into the Castle CLIP 225 Minions Behind the Scenes - Villain-Con BEHIND THE SCENES 116 Minions Behind the Scenes - Genesis BEHIND THE SCENES 122 Minions Behind the Scenes - Agents of Chaos BEHIND THE SCENES 121 Minions Behind the Scenes - Early Concepts BEHIND THE SCENES 144 Minions Blu-Ray Trailer 1 TRAILER 048 Minions Teaser - Holiday Greeting TRAILER 045 Minions Photos Movie Info 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. Rating PG Rude HumorAction Genre Kids & family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation Original Language English Director Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda Producer Christopher Meledandri, Janet Healy Writer Brian Lynch Release Date Theaters Jul 10, 2015 wide Release Date Streaming Dec 8, 2015 Box Office Gross USA $ Runtime 1h 31m Distributor Universal Pictures Production Co Illumination Entertainment, Illumination Mac Guff Sound Mix Datasat, Dolby Atmos Aspect Ratio Flat View the collection Despicable Me Cast & Crew News & Interviews for Minions Critic Reviews for Minions Audience Reviews for Minions Apr 02, 2017 Entertaining, fast-paced and with plenty of funny characters and situations. Kids will have a blast but there isn't as much to salvage for grown-ups here, just a reference here or there. The plot itself is a little too silly for more. The end connects nicely with Despicable Me, though. Super Reviewer Jan 02, 2017 Very cute and funny! Super Reviewer Mar 28, 2016 The Minions attempt to carry their own film and fail horribly in this Despicable Me spin-off. The story which is more of a series of skits and jokes follows three Minions who set out on a mission to find a leader for their people, which they do in Scarlet Overkill; a maniacal super-villain set on stealing the Royal Crown of England. Sandra Bullok does a good job voicing Overkill, whose cartoonish villainy is a lot of fun. But the plot is just too zany and out of control; it doesn't make any sense and is incredibly dumb. Unfortunately the writers of Minions don't seem to know what they're doing, and it really shows. Super Reviewer Jan 06, 2016 As was to be expected, this might actually be the most obnoxious movie I've seen in a long ass time. I've never been a fan of the minions. In fact, out of all the movie mascots in these films, the minions are easily the most annoying. I found them insufferable in smaller doses in both Despicable Me movies, so I thought the idea of them actually getting their own full-length movie, and not one of these silly short movies as special features on the DVD, was just the absolute worst thing possible. The fact of the matter is that the joke in this movie is that the minions' language is unintelligible and a lot of the comedy is based on the things they say, which is an amalgamation of words in French, Spanish, English, among other languages. Their inane gibberish gets old 10 minutes into the goddamn movie. There's also instances where they Minion-ize some popular 60s songs and that's just the dirt fucking worst. It's just that their language is so ridiculously stupid and kiddie that it makes watching them for an extended period of time completely ridiculous. I don't begrudge anyone for finding the minions adorable or entertaining, but I'm also wondering how anyone over the age of 12 can like these fuckers. Maybe the same things I hate about them are the things that other people love, that's entirely possible, but it's just perplexing to me. These fucking things are so annoying and the joke wears thin immediately. Don't get me wrong, there's some inspired moments here, like Sandra Bullock as the super-villain in the film was one of the few bright spots of the film and she might've been the only entertaining character in the film. There's also a pretty awesome soundtrack full of 60s songs that, thankfully, the minions don't sacrifice. There's a lot of slapstick, but it's all incredibly forgettable and uninteresting. The thing is that there's a fairly decent idea here of the minions searching for a suitable villain to serve unquestionably, which doubles as a search for a home as Kevin, Stuart and Bob are looking for a place for their 'tribe' to settle down. The problem, however, comes in the fact that the film lacks no structure, it's just a series of slapstick-y skits without any real story thread holding them together. The movie is, technically, not even bad, but I still couldn't stand it because the minions are insufferable characters. They were not meant to be seen in large doses. Hell, I don't even think they were meant to be seen in small doses either. It'd be one thing if they were silent characters, then I wouldn't actually have a problem with them, because then I wouldn't have to listen to their obnoxious gibberish and then I could actually focus on their actions. But these motherfuckers have painted themselves into a corner with these characters. I'd have given it a lower score if it wasn't for Sandra Bullock and the great soundtrack. The movie isn't even that funny when you really think about it. The kids will definitely love it, so I guess that's something, but that doesn't mean this movie isn't good, because it's not. It's annoying as fuck and forgettable as an actual movie, even when removing the minions from the equation. Sandra Bullock is good here and there's some great music, but the minions drag everything down in their path, both literally and figuratively, this would've been a better movie without them. I can't really recommend this movie in the slightest, but I'm sure the kids will love the minions' energy and zaniness and that's what Dreamworks was going for. I still can't call this a good movie.