Would you watch another minions movie? Also: Tongue slip about Genndy and PPG

*I don't care about the children, all i care about is their money* -Mr. Krabs

I like how they had to retcon out the fact that the minions would've absolutely worked for Hitler

Reason Despicable Me 1 is good and the others aren’t: DM1: Vector DM2: no vector DM3: no vector Minions: no vector Not a coincidence guys

"remember scrat? we'll talk about him later" never brings him up again

Whats really strange is that Sony Animation made the Emoji movie but also made Into the Spider-Verse a year apart from each other. So clearly there's someone over there that has respect for the medium.

The worst part is that the existence of this film makes me feel bad for loving the original Despicable Me. That film had heart. This film, did not.

My aunt was so offended when I said the minions and boss baby are dumb 😂😂

I see “Klaus” by Netflix as a beacon of hope for animated movies.

I think the worst thing about the Minions is that they overshadowed a pretty good plot about an evil villain adopting little orphan girls. Like, I was more interested in the plot than the corn pops, and yet the corn pops won out.

Children's media is what is helping to shape the next generation, and therefore needs to be given more care, heart, and creativity.

A couple things could have been added. 1. the first (and arguably the second) Despicable Me films were actually funny, charming, and heartwarming. The plot was centered around Gru and the girls, and the Minions served as no more than just small side characters with a maximum 5 minutes of meaningful screen time. Unfortunately though, they got a whole lot more attention than they needed, and became the poster-child of Illumination, who had literally just made their first movie. 2. Believe it or not, some studios are learning! Sony Animation in particular just announced their upcoming lineup, and it legitimately looks promising, and some of their more recent films have actually been really good! (They even have an adult animated film in the works.)

This is why Pixar & Dreamworks are in a league of their own. Storytelling matters a lot. Majority of their movies are great, even sequels!

That popeye short was made by some really talented people... Could have been a huge thing

It's not just animation either. See Disney and its live action remakes: no need to create a new story, people will watch it anyway bc of the legacy of the animations. It's such a shame.

Would you like to talk about how AMAZING Laika Studios' animated movies? So much soul and creativity!

The sad part is how there are talented animators in these studios that are just as frustrated as us.

I'm still pissed at Sony for cancelling Genddy Tartakovsky's Popeye movie project in favor of the trainwreck of a film "Emoji Movie"

I'll never stop being mad at how popeye got canceled.

They could’ve made a ok movie without the minions maybe as a side character for comic relief from time to time but not the whole movie

This is even funnier after the rise of gru blew up the theatres

Didn't even mention how terribly Illumination treats their animators. They are underpaid and overworked, specifically because they don't prioritize their creative staff at all. The movie itself is an afterthought from the brand.

The most unforgivable crime of the minions is that their origin was actually retconned with the Minions movie. It was hinted that Gru created them. It makes sense. If we want to overthink things, minions should be a much more common site in their world if they were around since the "caveman era." This just further proves your videothat they just mashed ideas together without any proper thought.

The animated films and books I grew up with are what triggered my imagination as a kid, I would see images of beautiful worlds in my head, I would think things like "what if toys could talk? What if clouds were alive? What kind of adventures could this thing have?" I was so full of creative energy then, and still am due to what I grew up with. I just can't imagine the kind of imaginations the kids who grow up with minions and other cheap films will have, it makes me really sad to think about. I hope something changes soon.

I’ve always been disgusted with child marketing... like for example, whenever I’m stocking juices and I see Dori’s face on the packaging, it makes me so irritated. It feels so predatory and I hate it.

*"The Money is always right!"* _-Mr. Krabs_

In a parallel universe, Megamind won the recognition over Despicable Me and the animation industry was saved

i wish every animated movie went the rango route and was interesting, unique, and contributed to the feel of the story and characters. rango's art is perfect.

I liked the minions when I was like 8. They’re still around right now. Why.

I watched Wall-E a few days ago (I was a kid when I saw it for the first time and never saw it again) and what struck me was the amazing story, a lot of creative ideas outside the box and everything fitting in a greater picture. It was so different to all animation nowadays. Animation shouldn't be just for kids, but it is starting to be. Kids enjoy simple, flat and giggly characters just as much or even more than deeper, well-established characters. We should be careful that we don't let this be the new standards for animation, as it has so much more to offer than franchises and remakes and kids' movies. By the way, Wall-E is amazing. Even when you remember the story, it is a masterpiece and so much fun to watch.

Everyone knows Shrek 5 has been sitting in Area 51 for years.

The minions are ruining animation. Illumination studios is the magnum opus of cash grabs and now every animated movie has “funny” little characters like the minions just for money.

This is one of those "It's 3AM and I have no idea how I got here" videos.

I think one of the big problems that feeds into this is the United States’s lack of respect for animation and for children’s media. “Animation is just for kids.” “It’s just for kids, so who cares if it’s bad?”

Wait- Somebody else on the internet besides me still cares about Ice Age? I mean, Shrek is great, but especially the first Ice Age deserves much more than getting basically no atention at all.

4:24 so... they are Michael Bay movies

Well this has aged perfectly

I want a slow paced Minions war movie set in Iraq

I'm really sad the fucking minions overshadowed Gru and the girls. I loved the first Despicable Me.

Omg I just realized the meaning of the word "Popeye" because he pronounced it as Pop-eye 😂😂. In Spain we pronounce it as "po-pei-ye" and I never actually thought it had a meaning, I thought it was just a name lol. This is totally unrelated to the video, but I just realized this after YEARS wth

Now we’re here with rise of gru the first movie to make one minillion dollars

I was once told at an anime convention, that held a job fair, this statement, "Well, don't you want to sell your idea?" after I pitched my idea for a 3d animated series I'm working on. I responded with "I mean making money would be a good outcome of it, but if the story sucks, then what's the point?" Telling a great story that draws people in will surpass and outlast all the money you will ever make from merch and for that, that's how I want my series to be remembered for.

"This is Bad for Animation" Lion King 2019: "Hold my photo-realistic bugs."

Infinity Train could bring *massive* change to the TV and Film industry if it was wildly public, it brings serious topics in like divorce, coping with death, being forced to do social norms.

20 odd years ago every CGI feature was an event. They started off strong with adult-targeted but kid-friendly films like Toy Story, Antz, and Shrek. They were relatively uncommon, but every one of them was worth seeing, and that made them very lucrative. There wasn't five of them a year like there is now. We all went to see every Pixar movie. Now the shine has worn off somewhat, but the desire of the studios to cash-in remains. I think the core of great movies remains (Mostly Pixar and Dreamworks), but there is a lot of chaff as well. And there are diminishing returns for sequels to great originals like Kung Fu Panda. I don't think the format is doomed, it's just that the novelty has worn off.

Minions: **exist** 40yr old white moms: it's free real estate

"[Stuart Little] could have even been a kid" He actually is (in the book). The premise of the book is that he's a tiny human who looks (and acts) like a mouse. I don't remember if the movie actually says he's a mouse, but the book says he's a human who strongly resembles a mouse.

Being recommended this again after seeing everyone jokingly mass-support Minions: Rise of Gru kinda scares me what that box office pay out is going to say to Illumination and other animation studios.

"Cars is fine, it's sequels not so much" Cars 3 is a masterpiece, I'll have you know.

I remember watching minions, and how I was more interested in Scarlet, the villian, compared to the f minions. I think they lost the opportunity to expand her story or give her more scenes.

It's kinda sad really, that modern kids movies seem exclusively made for kids. I watched The Iron Giant for the first time this week, and I wish we could go back to when kids movies could be enjoyed by adults.

Exactly why my future children will grow up with the movies and shows I grew up with because all of these new films and shorts don’t teach them anything worth while, I’ve made a list of all the great animations I grew up watching and I can only imagine it’s a key part in what makes good people is the things they grow up around

That maniacal minion laughter at the end will haunt my dreams

can't believe we could've had a popeye movie but instead we got yellow banana mutants

I'm scared for the Mario movie, which is being made by Illumination.

Some great ideas and breakdowns here. Nice work and left me with much to think about. Thanks.

Love your dedication to quality

I really enjoyed the first Despicable Me. It was cute and fun, had a lot of heartfelt moments. But that really just makes me hate the other movies more, because they took a movie close to my heart and stomped all over it

So are we just gonna ignore the fact that Despicable Me overshadowed Megamind, the greatest animated movie ever

I just wanted to say that i LOVE how you edit your videos. The information is great, but the editing makes it mesmerizing

Your voice is instantly recognizable! I already follow your other stuff, no wonder KZfaq recommended this lol

they were fine until Facebook mom's got a hold of them

I feel attacked. As a writer, I mean. Imagine spending years developing a story and then seeing a movie like this make so much more than you ever will. _that_ is how we feel =_=

Sing, in my mind, was a cop out. The trailers made it out to be a cast of “diverse” characters, all from different locations and backgrounds with different lifestyles, but they knew that if they made them humans they’d actually have to research different cultures and races, put effort into making it respectful and then have to deal with back;ash from racists claiming it was “pandering” or whatever. Making them animals meant they could avoid all that, make it as mass-marketable as possible while retaining some pseudo-diversity, pretending it was groundbreaking because look! This character isn’t rich! How realistic!! When in reality all you’re looking at is a painfully smooth anthro pig that has no reason to be a pig.

When you explained Pixar doing the work it reminded me of all the videos out there giving insight into Pixar’s creative process. Doing research in Scandinavia, studying Jon Batiste’s hands for Soul, you probably cried 10 minutes into Up! You can just see their love for their work in the movies (Frozen did not need a sequel tho), but with Illumination not so much. Movies like Ice Age I call headache movies, bc my brain literally feels fried after watching them. Glad there are so many good animations out there; the comic like animation Into the Spider-Verse, what a masterpiece!

I think the reason why Minions did so well it's because it's easy to change languages using the characters because the Minions don't speak any certain language, therefor it is easier to promote and sell the film internationally.

"Cater a movie to kids is doomed to fail, but cater to adults AND kids it will succeed." I might've messed up the original quote but it holds SOME truth to it.

This was amazing. Thank you

Minions: Rise of Gru had pretty damn good animation, especially the bicycle scene with that fat minion

“It’a a series of scenes of minions doing things”-ralphthemoviemaker

It's funny how Minions manipulate us into becoming ... Minions.

Gonna say it, the main reason that Minions got so big is BECAUSE they don't speak. Same reason Mr. Bean is so popular. Cuz when it comes to selling to the whole WORLD, having physical comedy be the primary way characters communicate is a way to make it appeal to ALL countries. Not to mention they're very simple to draw, meaning kids can get hooked on drawing them. They get that dopamine hit of making a good drawing by copying an easy concept. And it hits that cascading point where it goes from "popular" to "popular enough to become a self sustaining engine that has the studio push even more marketing for it, making it spread FURTHER, and popular enough that to deal with seeing it everywhere, the people that DON'T like the minions start to like them ironically or prop them up as memes to cope, so you have the people that like them and hating them propagating their images.

Perfect Video to Sum Up Some animation studios and Illumination

Let’s not forget about all those seriously awful Minion memes your mom will always leave a like on Facebook.

I'm at the point where i think the box office numbers aren't real and it depends on money and investments

Repeat these to yourself: It's okay for children to like something I don't. It's okay for children to make something popular that isn't my jam. It's okay for children to not have the same nostalgic attachment to something as me.

I have something to say about this, as someone that works in the industry. Animation is expensive and it is incredibly difficult to get projects off the ground. From writers to animators, everyone wants to tell an amazing story and we want to move the goal post for what is possible. Looking at a movie like Popeye, it was a huge success in animation circles because it managed to push the limits of what is possible. But the reason they make a short film like Popeye is to test the workflow. To try out the pipeline on a small project, as to not lose hundreds of millions of dollars on a feature-length project. We might like the look of Popeye, but we have no clue how tedious and time-consuming the animation process was. That is why the animation industry spits out cookie-cutter movies, to make money and to fund their passion projects. The Minions movies are not meant for you, it is meant for kids that enjoy the short visual gags that can be put together with mostly already existing models and characters and most importantly, already existing technology. But the passion projects are not dead and they will never die. The passion projects are what fuels these thousands of artists making these movies. If the industry stopped producing passion projects, artists would find another job in the long run. The salary is not good enough, to do something you do not enjoy and the companies know this.

Minions makes a ton of money while Laika's newest film Missing Link just flopped recently. That is why we can't have nice things.

Consider this: The people who write dialogue for minions which is just incomprehensible Spanish gets paid almost millions of dollars

love the content keep up the good work in these hard itmes

The biggest insult: Minions movie says minions have been alive for centuries before human kind but Despicable me shows Grus plans for creating minions in the first movie... how despicable.

Wanna know what’s worse than that? Illumination simply copied Ubisoft’s homework and somehow became successful (Minions are rip-offs of the Rabbids from Rayman)

This made all the more painful when seeing that the creators of Iron Giant were being rushed to get the movie out because the studio felt hand drawn animation was dead based on another movie of theirs nor performing to their standard. Iron, Giant. One of the best animated movies that actually managed to blend the hand drawn of yesteryear with CG of that era and do it fairly seamlessly. This kind of thing is happening with the games industry, it's been going on for years. Cartoony visuals/2D being hated by major platforms, while they typically age the best and wind up running better. Sony has been against 2D games, now just old games in general for ages. Capcom apparently had to say "If you don't take Megaman 8 and MegaMan X4 you don't get Resident Evil" X4 being a game that holds up to this day because of it's visual aesthetics. Eh I'm getting off topic. It's just a shame to see industries go on trends that they perceive as good vs what can be great if they let some original ideas flow.

Great analysis. Eloquent

Its funny how as today Minions Rise of Gru basically saved theatrical animation by outgrossing the king itself - Pixar and their mediocre attempt of doing an origin story of Buzz Lightyear. So at the end Nerdstalgic was wrong. Mionions is actually good for animation

Studio Laika is amazing, I wish they made the money they deserve.

A low budget movie that's basically a bunch of random and abstract ideas slapped together in a nonsensical incoherent way? Almost sounds like an avante garde indie film lol

This is the nicest take on the minions out there and that's saying somehting

Great editing

This can be done well. All of the shows I watched as a kid were semi-elaborate toy marketing: Ninja Turtles, He-Man, Transformers, GI Joe, Thundercats. All of them were basically toys first but generally good TV as well.

Well, this finally explains why Secret Life of Pets felt so disjointed to me

"My movies are called art nowadays! Can you imagine it? The whole point for making these movies was just to make a buck". Fred Astaire.

I'm glad that you mentioned about the Popeye one. Always wondered what happened to film project after it's first trailer. Was very disappointed that it was shelves because of a companies' greed yet again.

So basically the minions is family guy with less political jokes?

“It isn’t a bad movie by any means...” It IS a bad movie by all means

Before i watch the video, i think we have surpassed that era and now Sony made a new trend of actual good animation

I really love despicable me 1, and 2 as well. The 3rd feels a little disconnected but minions was definitely BAD. I wanted it ti end so bad and my mom took a nap at the theatre 😭

"A fifth Shrek movie is on the way." You fool

I wouldn't say this is a new issue for animation. After all pretty much every cartoon that came out in the 80s and 90s was a straight up extended advertisement. Hell most of these shows were put together AFTER the toys they were trying to sell.

This video should be titled “the minion solution” because the minions are flawless and have no problems