Line #1 YMMV/Minions


1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: True to being Illumination, the soundtrack includes scads of 60s hits. [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand The Rolling Stones]], Music/TheWho, Music/TheDoors, Music/JimiHendrix, Music/TheTurtles, and even a couple songs from Music/TheBeatles, who's music can be very hard to license.
2	* BaseBreakingCharacter: The titular minions have cemented themselves in this status. Fans of the ''Despicable Me'' movies are either happy to see them get their own movie or annoyed by their excessive presence and for [[SpotlightStealingSquad overshadowing the human characters that fans have grown to love]].
3	* CriticProof: While the movie has been well-received by the audience and has definitely become a huge box office success, having passed the billion dollar mark outgrossing both ''Despicable Me'' films, and becoming the third highest-grossing animated film of all time, it holds a largely mediocre critical reception with a below average 55% on Rotten Tomatoes. Of all the films that have passed the billion dollar mark, only ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides'', ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'', ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'', ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019'', and ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' have worse critical reception than ''Minions''.
4	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
5	** Scarlet and Herb Overkill get a lot of love from the fans of the franchise for their chemistry, villain careers, and personalities. Another reason why Scarlet is popular is because of her orphaned past.
6	** The Nelsons likewise due to the fact that, despite being a criminal family, they're nothing but supportive to the Minions through their appearances. Most fans actually wanted more scenes with them.
7	** There was a lot of applause when [[spoiler: Gru made his appearance]]. Heck, to most fans, that was arguably the best part of the movie.
8	* FanficFuel: The prologue shows just a few examples of who Minions served in the past. What other historical figures did they serve as well?
9	* GeniusBonus: While minion speak is in full effect in this movie, particularly savvy viewers will notice that the language has a bit more gratuitous European hodgepodge thrown in to reflect the mythology of how their language developed. What takes the cake is Stuart's reference to a yellow fire hydrant as Papagena, the female love interest of ''Theatre/TheMagicFlute'' by Mozart. Not only was Mozart famously crass like the Minions, but The Magic Flute was famously the most slapstick of Mozart's operas.
10	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: This was the third highest grossing movie of 2015 in Mexico.
11	* HilariousInHindsight: Before this film cemented the Minions' popularity in HypeBacklash, they were often praised for stealing the show from Gru's plots in the first two films. [[spoiler: In this film, Gru returns the favor [[OneSceneWonder with less than two minutes of screen time]]]].
12	** In the ''[[WebVideo/HonestTrailers Honest Trailer]]'' for this movie, the narrator says that the movie would've been better if it focused on Young Gru and some Minion babies. Seven years later, the sequel to this movie does just that.
13	* HeartwarmingInHindsight:
14	** The freeze ray that is Gru's main weapon turns out to be created by Dr. Nefario.
15	** Gru's BenevolentBoss status towards the Minions (to the point of knowing each and every one of them by name) becomes even sweeter when you discover that [[spoiler:he's known them since he was a kid, and they're probably the best friends he's ever had]].
16	* ItsPopularNowItSucks: Through WolverinePublicity, this film made the already popular minions ''even more popular'' (as well as turning their marketing up to eleven), and people who don't like them or are indifferent to them aren't too thrilled.
17	* JustHereForGodzilla:
18	** Prior to its release, fans of the ''Despicable Me'' series (especially younger viewers) only wanted to watch the film to see the Minions have their own movie. YMMV on how well [[HypeBacklash this paid off]].
19	** The film was already set to have a strong opening, but it is often believed that the post-release report that [[spoiler: a young Gru would appear at the end]] brought many previously uninterested viewers into the seats.
20	** Many fans admitted that they would rewatch the movie just for the Overkills, who many older fans felt were more interesting and likeable.
21	* MagnificentBastard:
22	** [[GadgeteerGenius Herb Overkill]] is the laidback, swaggering husband of the world's greatest villain Scarlet, and plays a key role in her years of success with his technological genius. Outfitting Scarlet with every sort of weapon and tool she could ever need, Herb's skills are so useful that he even successfully supplies the Minions with such good gadgets that they [[TeamRocketWins pull off a heist]] for the Overkills handily. Designing Scarlet's coronation dress with defensive and offensive capabilities that save her life and make her a massive threat in the climax, Herb maintains a [[MellowFellow chill, friendly attitude]] the whole film, never holding any real malice towards anyone he goes up against, simply working with Scarlet because he loves her and enjoys goofing around.
23	** [[OutlawCouple Walter and Madge Nelson]] are a pair of successful supervillains who [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether raise their children]] to be as skilled and dangerous as them. Walter and Madge make family trips out of bank robberies and high security museum infiltration, doing such a good job in ripping the places off that even their [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior infant son Binky]] becomes a deadly villain in no time. Genuinely befriending the Minions and offering them advice in villainy, the Nelsons are the only bad guys who [[EvenEvilHasStandards refuse to ally with Scarlet Overkill]] in hunting the Minions, urging their friends to escape.
24	* MemeticMutation: See this film's section on the [[Memes/DespicableMe franchise's meme page]].
25	* MemeticPsychopath:
26	** While the Minions canonically work for the evilest and most ruthless organism they can find, the bosses shown are just generic scary or intimidating historical figures and creatures and they're so idiotically incompetent that they bring more pain upon themselves and their masters than other people. This doesn't stop memes that they would have without question worked for the ''truly'' despicable men and women throughout history and willingly partook in the worst atrocities known to man, most commonly UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust.
27	** Gru also became this once people realized that if the Minions continued to serve him from 1968, he must be worse than every despicable person/group who came after, with [[UsefulNotes/{{Cambodia}} Pol Pot]] and UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden being the most commonly brought up.
28	* {{Moe}}: Bob, who plays like the baby brother of the main trio.
29	* MoralEventHorizon: Scarlet crosses it when she [[spoiler: ties up Stuart and Bob above a pile of explosives to lure Kevin out of hiding.]] And if that isn't evil enough, she tells Bob [[spoiler: [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking she's keeping his teddy bear for herself]]]].
30	* NightmareFuel: Scarlet Overkill's VillainousBreakdown after getting crushed by a chandelier during her coronation.
31	* SignatureScene: For a film that is often said to be [[SoOkayItsAverage okay]] if not awful, the [[spoiler: surprise appearance by a young Gru at the end of the film is often considered to be one of the best moments in the entire series]].
32	* {{Squick}}: A Minion in a thong is already a gross image on it’s own, but having to see a backshot of as much? You may need some heavy doses of bleach on your eyes afterwards.
33	* SoOkayItsAverage: The general reception of the movie (especially [[CriticalDissonance by critics]]). They say that while it's not as good as either of [[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1 the first]] [[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2 two films]] in its franchise or the [[Film/JurassicWorld movies]] [[WesternAnimation/InsideOut that competed]] [[Film/AntMan1 with it]] in the box office, it's still a decent family film.
34	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: [[spoiler:Young Gru]] only appears at the end of the movie. As WebVideo/HonestTrailers put it:
35	--> ''"[[spoiler:Steve Carell]] is back...at the very end for, like, thirty seconds to remind you how much better this movie would have been with [[spoiler:little Gru and some minion babies]]."''
36	** Many fans felt that the movie could have been much better if it was a stand alone movie starring either the Overkills or the Nelson family.
37	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The movie really could have gone better if [[spoiler:it was a Gru origin story, like he was Scarlet Overkill’s newest apprentice instead of the Minions]].
38	* UnexpectedCharacter: [[spoiler:Gru unexpectedly shows up at the end to steal the crown, the minions, and the movie.]]

Context YMMV / Minions