Especially if you're a fan of the first Despicable Me, as they tie things back to that one in this prequel. It's nothing groundbreaking but it's fun, mildly entertaining and worth a watch. Here we get a paralleled dynamic, but it's not fleshed out nearly as well.Ħ/10 and what pushed it over the 5 was the banging 70's or 80's exclusive soundtrack.
But one thing that makes Despicable Me shine is building the relationship between Gru and the kids. Which is kinda like a minions thing, where everything just ends up working out for them. I don't feel like any of the objectives or arcs in the movie were well earned. Wasted climax IMO.Īlan Arkin is doing his thing and the only side cast member who's not under-utilized. But we focus so solely on four specific minions. Like, the whole point of minions is there's a fuckton of them, and this is the minions movie. It is insane to me that when Belle said at the end, "You and what army?" that they didn't get all the minions there for that scene. The way it comes together is both not super interesting and very predictable. The plot doesn't need to be up for best screenplay or whatever, but the way it is it's just an excuse to have this fun. Steve Carrell is really one note here, no one has a very interesting arc, the fun casting of JCVD and Yeoh and Lundgren and Trejo all feels wasted because we're focused on minions who speak baby spanish. It works because we all know minions are kinda dumb, not just in concept but they aren't smart creatures, so it's fun to just do all this dumb fun stuff with them.īut, when I think of what's wasted here it's kind of a shame.
The minions song renditions, the James Bond opener, the hilarious casting of the villains including JCVD playing a Frenchman with a lobster claw named Jean Clawed, and the dumb humor. It laid the foundation for why Gru would "turn good" later in his life much more seamlessly.ĭefinitely at its best when it's having fun. That paralleled how Gru charged in to Vector's lab to save the 3 kids, perhaps subconsciously because he was thinking "what would my favorite villain do if kid me was in trouble?". Or how Wild Knuckles risked his life trying to selflessly save Gru from the supervillains. In particular, how he became Wild Knuckles' emotional support, when he was all alone and demotivated. Rather, from a really early age he learned the importance of being part of a team and not alone.Īnd he learned the concept of "found family" early on in life too. So for example, Gru wasn't just a narcissistic supervillain who randomly fell in love with 3 orphans. But I thought this added some depth / believability to the first Despicable Me for example (which me and my daughter watched last weekend), and some of the choices Gru makes there. I already have the Blood Orb Sacred Unique chestpiece AND I have the Sacred Unique Bloodless Scream I just have to go to my box and put them on! I don’t plan on using Bloodless Scream btw (even though Cold Minion w/ Blizzard is redonkulous).I do prefer the family cuteness of Gru and his kids in the Despicable Me series. I hope for your sake you’re able to get a Ring of Mendeln drop out of nightmare dungeons early on. So I don’t know what else is there to say or do. What’s next, WT4? You said yourself that starting in WT3 difference is like night and day. Well gee, when does it end? First people said Minions can’t be played, and then I’m in WT2 and it’s nothing, now it’s WT3 and NM1. NM1 is literally nothing, and WT3 really doesn’t start ramping up until you’re close to the end of its scaling. I’m not going to step foot anywhere I think that there’s an unacceptable risk.
Remember earlier I mentioned Hardcore? I’m always playing with Hardcore mode mentality. If gear doesn’t drop, you can’t keep pushing or else you run into a wall. If you continue to get good gear, you can continue to progress. I’m well aware that in order to do the higher tier NM dungeons, your gear also has to be appropriate. See how fast this starts to suck for you.