I really didn't care for Despicable Me 2, and while I found some amusing moments here (the Pyramid and "Minions On The Boat" gags mainly), I'm just unsure about this one. Really dubious if they can make a really engaging story with these guys, but we'll see. I can already tell you this trailer will play like gangbusters with audiences and the film itself, regardless of quality, will have no problem making $800 million worldwide at least with ease.
I do appreciate the movie giving Jon Hamm a major movie role, as well as giving the same treatment for the vastly underrated Geoffrey Rush.
I love all things cinema, from silent movies to world cinema to animated cinema to big blockbusters to documentaries and everything in between!
This is shaping up to be one of THE biggest cash grabs I've seen in a long time. Imagine making an entire movie off of characters who don't speak English, why it's absolutely OH WHO CARES I LOVE THE MINIONS I KNOW I AM GOING TO SEE THIS!!!
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift--that is why it's called the present."
It's the Scrat Factor: The trailer itself would mean the movie would be hysterical if it was JUST narrated "historical" anecdotes about the Minions through history.
But unfortunately...it isn't. We've got our three protagonist heroes, and we've got a roster of star voices who will likely not be playing Minions, so it'll pull some standard faux-Despicable plot out of its hat.
That's the difference between a three-minute short and a highly studio-promoted eighty-minute feature.
Well, it's basically Penguins Of Madagascar, isn't it. And I'll bet that travel through time doesn't make up even the first half of the movie, not in this day and age. But I'd prefer to see this than a Penguins movie (seen what they have to offer already), though I would personally love a Scrat movie (even though I know what he has to offer too, though I still believe he's the most pure form of character to have been achieved in CG from any studio).
After viewing the trailer I want to see this movie. After viewing the trailer for the penguins movie I went meh whatever. So the minion trailer is clearly excellent promotion. I initially was sceptical and thought they should just stay in the Despicable Universe and I thought I couldn't tolerate a whole movie with them, but the trailer indicates that I could. I'm adding it to my list of movies I should try and see in the cinema next year
An entire movie devoted to the minions slated to hit theaters next year.. Wow! I mean, I super-adore the way they behave - so cheerful, lively, hyperactive, good at everything be it cleaning, sports, loyalty, friendship or anything else... but making an entire movie devoted to them maybe going a bit too far. Not that I would miss it, but it seems a bit too much. Still, let's wait and watch. I somehow feel the penguins in the upcoming Penguins of Madagascar are going to give the minions a run for their money. I guess it's face-off time then, with the supporting characters from Madagascar (penguins) and those from Despicable Me (minions) having their own movies to speak of!
Is it just me, or does the Minions movie somehow look..."different" from the other Despicable Me films from a visual standpoint? Like not in terms of animation or style, but it terms of "they tried to make it look like it was shot on film."
Maybe I'm not making sense, but Disney did something similar with the Rolie Polie Olie movie way back in 2002, animating the whole thing the same way as the show, and then putting it on "movie film" to make it look like a "movie." Unfortunately, when this is done to computer animation, it makes everything look less "smooth, and, in Rolie Polie Olie's case, sickly. It's possible I'm just imagining it for Minions, but I don't think I am.
To show what I mean, here's a clip from Despicable Me 2:
Now compare that to the Minions trailer:
And to show what I mean about Olie, here's the trailer for the Olie movie before it was "put on film":
Now here's Olie (sorry for using this example so much!) with the awful-looking "put on film" transfer:
Am I making any sense here? Or is Dacey reading too much into things?
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift--that is why it's called the present."
i can't see a discernible difference on my iPad, apart from the alternating looks between interlaced and progressive video. Interlaced is more video-based, blending frames for a possibly more "smooth" look, whereas progressive is a native frame format that deals with each frame individually.
Most TV stuff and even transfers for TV would be interlaced, but I'm surprised you'd see a difference between Despicable and Minions, since they both would have been rendered out progressively, as like any other big studio CG animation (though it's possible the Me 2 clip is an interlaced source).
I love Despicable Me. I have seen all of them but I wasn't happy with the last part about England. That awesome trailer, funny and I hope the whole movie will be funny. Anyway I'm going to cinema tomorrow with my son( I think I'm more excited then my son). I know this forum is about Despicable Me, but I wan to know feedback from anyone who saw Baby Boss? I have this animated movie on my hard drive.
