I recently saw Despicable Me 2 (2013).
Some thoughts:
- They took “we like minions” to a new level. A “too many minions”-level.
- Two kind of humor which I didn’t quite like and was widely used in the movie:
- Exaggeration – take one situation and inflate it. It’s a funny surprise the first time, it’s an annoying one when it’s repeated.
- Negative / sarcastic / parody humor. There’s a reason why most parody movies don’t rate well.
- In the script, lots of situations were solved without too much thinking. “Oh, she loves him. Just like that”. “Oh, it just happened”.
- The minions are plain dumb.
- Of course, there just had to be a unicorn in the movie. It was just chessy, that’s it.
- Lack of logic in the script.
- The music / sounds in the movie were too loud. It’s it’s a general trend – Pop music too loud and all sounds the same: official | Reuters.
How could they ruin a good movie like that? Indeed, despicable.