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The reason why Illumination was chosen over someone like Pixar or Disney is because Nintendo & Universal(owners of Illumination) have a deal about Theme parks

The problem I feel with these movies is oversaturation. Despicable Me: Honestly pretty okay Despicable Me 2: It's alright Despicable Me 3: Pushing it but still had some funny bits. Minions: Dumb but if you want mindless entertainment you could do a lot worse Sing: Probably the best one character wise Secret Life of Pets: Again, not bad for mindless entertainment Even Lorax and Grinch, while absolutely bastardized from the original stories still had some funny jokes and genuinely stellar animation. None of their movies have been spectacular yet but honestly? I think just seeing it everywhere is what annoys people. Because the movies they make aren't really all that bad. I'd argue something like Blue Sky (R.I.P.) had the worse track record when it came to their endless milking of Ice Age movies.

Knowing how overprotective Nintendo is about their IPs (look at the zelda and mario cdi games), I wouldn't be too worried. Nintendo is probably breathing down illumination's neck to make sure they get many things right. Illumination is already on thin ice as it is, because they are illumination.

Illumination actually spells out minion but like everyone knows that 👀

I don’t care what anyone says, Jack Black as bowser is the best thing that ever happened Edit: I have more likes than the man himself >:)

To answer the question in the title: no. Illumination movies aren't bad, they're mediocre, which is exactly why people hate them. A good movie can be enjoyed unironically, a bad movie can be enjoyed ironically, but a meh movie can't be enjoyed much at all. Despite none of Illumination's movies being good though(except their 1st one I'll give them that much) they are easily one of the most sucessful animation studios out there. So I'd say that their success with consistent mediocrity is why so many people, including myself, don't like Illumination.

The main reason why Illumination is bad is their movies, for the most part, all feel the same. They never try to break the animation style, in terms of creating something different visually, or telling an engaging and fun story but rather stick to the same formula as "family/kids" movies so they can make money. For me, this causes a bigger problem than ever, because quantity isn't everything. You can't depend on box office performances as an excuse for bad writing and a forgettable story. Also this doesn't give the creators to really flex their artistic abilities in terms of creating something new and original. On top of that, there's going to be a point where people are going to stop watching these movies, and watch something else with better quality, for example, The Mitchells vs The Machines. I think the best thing Illumination needs to do is a shake up, like try to break the mold of these movies and get talented people and good writers. Try something new with the animation, 'cause it is a medium, so you can express it and have fun with the animation. Finally, make the stories simple but not forgettable, avoid typical cliches or things found in other films, 'cause that can be boring and repetitive. Lastly, try to get people that matches the voices to the character and don't give it to an A-list celebrity, 'cause that's a clear sign that you only doing it for the box office. So yeah, that's my take on Illumination, I think they can improve they just need to try something different for a change, and if they prove it with this Super Mario Movie then good for them, thank you. Good bye.

Probably the best Illumination rant i've saw on YT. Rather than just constantly listing the cons of their movies and constantly saying that they suck you also talk about their pros and other stuff. Don't get me wrong. I'm not a Illumination fan. But when i want to watch a rant i want to watch a quality one.

maybe illumination will surprise us by making a amazing Mario movie

The thing I hate most about Illumination is that the first Despicable Me is genuinely a great movies, Minions are used enough and are not tiring, the story is good, the animation was great but then they saw the money and got addicted to it

Despicable me: a genuinely touching movie that is a classic is most of our hearts, probably because of being a good movie and us seeing it at a young age. Despicable me 2: a very forgettable and predictable spy "thriller" that is the definition of boring, but still toreable with an amazing music number with "Happy" being the only memorable thing about it. Despicable me 3: one of my personal least favorite movies, having 60% filler, which is terribly surprising considering its length. The villain is unlikable, along with most scenes being forgettable, or downright awful. Minions: Hot take, I actually liked the concept of the first act, (I feel there was a lot of missed potential, rather than an outright peice of crap.) I can tolerate the rest of the movie, with that 66.7% being boring, but at least toreable, mindless garbage. Minions isn't a quality movie, its just somthing you put on to either keep the kids entertained, or you have nothing better to do (also a hot take: I think minions is better than despicable me 3.)

I really like Despicable Me 2 as well as one. And I also like how unique their worlds are, say what you will about them but when they lean into really cartoony worlds the creativity at the company shines. The gadgets of Despicable Me, the world of The Lorax, the machinations of The Grinch….I like that stuff. You won’t see that anywhere else.

Imagine getting star lord to voice mario...like WHAT

If I remember correctly, I believe the big brown dog in Secret Life of Pets only starts actively being mean once he finds out Max is trying to get rid of him.

The reason illumination has the Mario IP is because of Super Nintendo World at Universal theme parks and the fact that the most profitable universal owned animation studio is illumination.

I like how out of the 10 movies they've made so far they've only made 3 original movies that aren't a sequel, spin-off or remake

whyd they have to choose Chris Prat for mario!??!?! couldn’t they get someone who was Italian, or at least knew how to do an accent

I enjoyed Sing a lot. Idk, I watched it when I was younger and I guess it’s one of those that I could watch multiple times just for good vibes? (Totally not kinda looking forward for the sequel)

im here before illumination makes despicable me 11

I just hope illuminations does the visual animation because that's probably the only thing they're good at. Meanwhile, they have TERRIBLE problems when it comes to the humor and story department.

7:04 WHY CAN'T I UNSEE THE MEME

Tbh illumination movies arent bad,they are just overmilked sequels or remakes that arent very rememberable

I think Despicable Me is always nice to rewatch because hello?? They stole the damn moon!!

which illumination movie can u tolerate the most?

I actually liked all 3 Despicable Me movies. I felt that the basics of the first two naturally worked together, the third was a stretch, but I thought it was hilarious. Grinch was mediocre, and for the reasons you mention.

I can honestly agree with you about Illumination. I don't think Illumination is the worst, but at the same time, I'm not too fond of their movies. Despicable Me 1 and 2 are the only ones I like.

Illumination needs to focus on BIGGER audiences rather than annoying 5 year old toddlers screaming “minions1!1!1” every 30 seconds. But their eyes are too focused on the Parents of the kid’s money.

"Do you like... A LOT OF MONEY" "Yes" "Oh dang we do to..." "..." "You're hired"

I woke up today and realized ima be a animated movie

we can all agree that the really early design for the minions is straight up terrifying

Illumination's movies aren't bad just really mediocre, with the exception of the first Despicable Me that one was pretty good.

1:33 read it

The main reason for the Mario movie being made by Illumination is the Universal Studios land. Also simple designs make more money.

ever since I've seen Sing 2 everywhere, I've decided to come to this video. if there's anything I don't exactly like, it's over-commercialization, one of the illumination's other problems. they always feel the need to push their products to the limit, especially once the movie's still not released yet.

I always personally felt their films were ok at best .

7:12 sweet Jesus, that shark had no idea what was coming to him.

I legitimately forgot that I saw secret life of pets 2 until you showed a clip of it halfway through the video, like even when you brought it up I though "huh, wonder what that one was like"

Yeah I’m on the fence when it comes to Illumination. I do agree none of their movies after Despicable Me are as good, but I did enjoy the more down to earth atmosphere Secret Life of Pets and Sing brought forth (whenever there were moments like that in said films, lol). I think that if they were to home in more on making distinct character designs for each movie and remember what made most jokes in DM1 land, they’ll get better. I wait patiently for the Mario movie, and wonder what happened to Minions 2, since the trailer was actually promising and didn’t give away too much.

6:54 yeah I was very annoyed they just gave up on Antonio out of the movie, really wish he was written way better in the movie.

Hop gave me PTSD. I can never celebrate Easter ever again.

The original Mario voice actor is still alive just let him voice Mario, he is old but he’s still good at it.

I like this transition in Awesomemay's content in my opinion way better than the older videos. And Hot Take: I'd watch Sing over Secret Life of Pets any day.

Despicable Me was good, and everything after that wasn’t

Honestly, you deserve more. Your videos are actually pretty good

Dude, I’m so into your content, I’ve been binge watching and it’s so interesting and I love it so much 🙌🏾

Nice!! I really like how you went through all the movies to review while still keeping the video shortish 😃🤩🤩🥳🥳

I really like Illumintion and I like their movies. The Despicable Me franshise, Sing, Minions, The Secret Life of Pets, Sing 2. Those movies are all pretty entertaining and they all have full potential in my opinion. As a huge fan of Mario, I'm excited for the upcoming fully-animated Mario movie.

7:22 actually that was included in the kill count of the movie

Every time I watch an illumination movie I feel like I’m in jail..Because it’s that bad and it should be your punishment for breaking the law lol

Honestly I can tolerate some of illuminations movies Despicable me 1,2 and 3(not minions) where they do go more into villains and where villains can also have hearts like gru(and also learn more of his family like dru) and I do dig that. Sing(sing 2 isn’t out yet so I got no opinion yet) mainly focuse on peoples(in this case the animals) struggles and use there singing talent and dancing to make it to what there made for. The life of pets, I… don’t really get much to say but hey its pets I can’t say no to pets.

For me it’s kind of a mixed bag because there are some illumination movies I really like such as despicable me and sing movies I find lukewarm like minions and secret life of pets movies I think could have been better like the Lorax and despicable me 3 and movies I don’t care for like the grinch Their biggest problem in my mind is their abuse of commercialism like for secret life of pets they showed too much of there best scenes in the trailer that when the actual movie came out I didn’t enjoy it as much as the trailer

Pretty awesome that you chose 3-D world music

6:30 I generally thought this scene was ok but looking back at it now is just- EWWWWWWWWWW

1:53 This is starting to kinda die out, but to me; NO, IT DOESN'T... I LOVE THIS MEME MUSIC.............

Fuck it, I'm just gonna say it, I quite like the original Despicable Me, and, while the movie is utter dogshit, the entire plot and sequence of events of the Minions movie is, for some reason, permanently ingrained into my mind. Hopefully the mario movie is garbage, although i have zero hope.

Amazing video once again! :D keep up the great work!

When Coconut Mall played I just immediately liked the video

The quote about illumination about how it’s a cousin you don’t want to see is really good 👍

I don't really care. Im just mad at them for not using biggering in the lorax.

7:40 OBBLITERATTED

Keegan-Michael Key, Anya Tayor-Joy, Charlie Day, & Jack Black were all good casting choices for the New Super Mario Bros. Film.

The thing about the illuminations animation style is that if there’s one word to describe it it would be *marketable* Like choose any random background or tertiary character in any illumination movie, that character would make much better merchandise than any important Pixar or dream works character Which is why I wasn’t a huge fan of their visuals So I was worried about how they’ll animated the mario movie because of that until I realised that there is already LOTS of mario merchandise and they pretty dope ngl. So yeah I’m looking forward to see how the movie will look. But whether it’s going to be good however… that’s a different story in itself

Just found your channel with this video, not even 2 minutes in I can tell you're gonna be one of the big channels, keep up the good work

Great vid brother. You're VERY polished as hell for only having 42k subscribers. Keep up the great work bro. You're about to blow up

Great video as always keep it up

“A good illumination movie is right below a bad pixar movie” *Shows Luca* ..W-what are you trying too say.. *About my Luca.*

ok but like i remember a high part of my childhood being ALL about Lorax like it was my most favorite movie of all times and i could never forget all the memories

I watched this video and now I’m addicted to your channel haha keep going your my favourite animator on KZfaq

Awesome video, though there wasn't much animation, i still enjoyed it to the fullest

Hi there I wanna say that I love your vids so much! Its so entertaining! What I most like about it is your Jokes and humors it makes me laugh and makes my day better

Found this vid on recommended and and was deciding if i should or shouldn't sub. But then you said "a unit walked in" and i died laughing 😭😭🤣 *SUBBED!*

I can’t believe some of my favourite books when I was younger are all being ruined. Like, literally all of them. Everysingle one.

I think why Nintendo choosed Illumination is because Japan is crazy about the Minions.

To the person who said "If you don't like it don't watch it maybe", HOW DO YOU DECIDE YOU DON'T LIKE A MOVIE IF YOU DON'T WATCH IT FIRST?!?

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But Funny animals go on magical Journey to learn valuable lesson I Don’t remember which movie it was But that’s something

They should use dwane the rock johnson instead

I remember I used to like Illumination movies. Now I can’t sleeping through their boring plots.

While im not in love with illumination, I'm In love with SING.

When the video ended I got a Ad for The Secret Life Of Pets Ride At Universal Studios 😂😂😂

Illumination movies are okay in my opinion. They aren’t bad, but most of them aren’t good either.

1:37 when you said that…. *I got a sing 2 ad like what the*

I wouldn’t call illumination bad. But more so disappointing. There’s clearly some talent, funding, and skill behind their projects. But they have confined themselves to a niche with zero competition and thus they don’t need to excel, but only succceed. They don’t try to out perform Disney, and they aren’t Bad, They’re merely serviceable and innoffensive, but that’s the problem. They only create something serviceable instead of excellent

Pretty cool 509 second-long video that reaffirms my dislike towards Illumination. Despicable Me is the only movie of theirs that I actually kinda enjoy though

I actually like most of the Illumination movies tbh.

I like this dude, nice commentary

good video awesomemay

I like illumination because there movies are really good I am so excited for the super Mario bros movie and I am also excited for migration

The only Illumination movies I genuinely think in MY OPINION are good ( I say a movie is good if I rewatch them multiple times and relate with the characters ): Sing ( and Sing 2 that show was incredible and I love the characters a lot, including the new characters qoq ), Despicable Me 1 and 2, and somewhat Minions. Only cause of Scarlet Overkill who I wish was the main focus in her own movie and some jokes were hilarious to me. I find their other movies okay and bad at best. But yeah, they have their moments where they make me laugh. Hopefully this new Mario movie will be okay or have more good moments than bad. I am not looking forward to the cast’s performances. I’m only excited for Jack Black and Keegan who are perfect for their roles.

yo the commentary is amazing keep it up

why does every illumination movie have a cliche where it goes "oooo cute animal is eeviilll" i hated the cliche first time i seen it

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from Minions I only remember the first few minutes, the rest was pretty boring. Despicable Me was great and when I watched 2 I just thought, hopefully the third will be better... meh Other then that it's just movies for kids who don't care for the story anyways

I haven’t laughed so hard in a KZfaq video as I do in your KZfaq videos Awesomemay I love your content

okay i almost cried from all that nostalgic mario 3D world music you were playing

Just gonna say, the despicable me movies were my favorite movies, I used to watch them with my dad all the time the minions movie sucked tho

Short answer: They have the potential of being very good, but don’t take any chances. They just wanna oversaturate the market with their movies and make a quick buck every time now.

First of your vids I watched😐 FIREEEEE VIDEO!

The only thing I don’t like about Illumination is that they created the Minions but other than that their movies are decent at worst and are pretty to look at