Minions might be the most dissatisfying origin story ever told. We don’t find out much of anything about the little yellow guys from Despicable Me 1 and 2: where their language came from, if they have genders, how they reproduce … and there are a lot more baffling narrative choices where those came from.
Screen Junkies’ newest Honest Trailer breaks down everything wrong with this movie—from the ill-conceived ’60s references to the startlingly high kill count to the promotional Tic Tacs and Twinkies. It’s hard to say which backhanded gibe is more damning: saying that Minions “makes Cars 2 look like the beginning of Up,” or calling it “one of the most expensive, far-reaching promotional campaigns of all time … and also a movie.”
