Miniotic could be another name for idiotic - **

Milking the popularity of the minons from the movie Despicable Me, Universal Pictures and Illumnation Entertainment combined forces to come up with a money maker that disregards what value (or lack thereof) it may instill the kids that will watch their movie.

In the movie Despicable Me, the minions, as an entity becomes the very delightful side kick to the lead character Gru, a villain with a soft spot for kids. They provided much of the funny parts in the film, with their adorable little voices and funny antics. Watching the two Despicable Me movies did not at all make me wonder where the minions came from.  Sure, I remember wondering what kind of creatures they were, were they aliens or some creatures from the earth.  But I did not think it was important to know

Apparently some people thought it could be a good idea to make a main feature from the minions and reveal their origin and a part of their history pre-Gru. And thus this movie came about.

It turned out the minions have been roaming the earth since per-history , they are a race that is collectively in need of  master villain to lead them.  Now this is where I thought the movie fell flat, to present the origin some specie, I would expect to see how they came about. Creatures could not just exist out of thin air.  As far as the minions are concerned they were already there and they are in need of a master.  And this whole movie was about their search, and of course we all know who they ended up serving.

In this movie you see a whole lot of villains, and the main villain of all is Scarlet Overkill.  She was quite a sensation during the time because she was the only woman in the whole motley crew and she was fabulous and ruthless at the same time. Many people wanted to be her henchman, every body vied for the part but with some stroke of luck the minions came out victorious.  The conflict ensues because of a botched mission and the rest is just chaos from there.

Several things I did not like about this film, the main part of it is the worship of villains.  It glorifies them and puts them up like royalty. It sends a wrong message to the kids.  And the attempt to send this message is not even amusing, you see villains going after each other, you see cities being destroyed you see chaos without anything to back you up for heroism nor human values.  It is just simply a movie for the mindless and heartless.