Customer Ratings & Reviews

Pros: 3D with a high level that looks impressive on my calibrated passive OLED. Dolby Atmos on a Blu, 3D itself. Even better on my calibrated 7.2.4 Digital copy. Lenticular slipcover. Cons: None.

Excellent movie and very good quality picture in 3D I would recommend this for everyone

It was a great movie for the kids they really enjoy it and I enjoyed the quality of it.

Very funny movie. Kids love it and there is a lot of adult humor as well. Enjoy!

My kids and I loved this movie. Minions is pure comedy. The movie is for children, but does have some appeal to adults. Its is certainly not meant to provide a special message to people. If you've see Despicable Me, you should already have figured that out. The trailers basically give an summary of the story line. A brief "history"/explanation of the minions is given in the beginning. The minions are in dismay without a leader. Three minions venture out to find someone, looking and looking. Since they are mischievous, its not someone well-mannered/polite they search for. It would not fit their personality. Once they find someone, the issue is still not fully solved. They must still "win" her over. Many mishaps take place, intentionally and not, leading to twists in the story line. The end is interesting. No point in going into details. I give credit to the creativity. Illumination creates a movie were the main characters don't speak a given language, yet you can figure out what is being implied. (Their "language" a combo of gabbling, Spanish, French, and a little English. Go see the Despicable Me Extras if you don't believe me.) They were able to establish different personalities to the main 3 minion characters, yet keep the "minion" traits. Each primary and secondary character usually had their own style or uniqueness.

Minions works just fine as a colorful diversion that will satisfy the kids. In fact, it'll probably delight them. But in a marketplace filled with terrific animated movies that both kids and adults can love for their own reasons, Minions leaves the older crowd in the cold, catering exclusively to those more enticed by sight and sound than story depth and purpose. That's not a bad thing, and there's a reason why the movie cleaned up at the box office: it knows its audience and delivers what its audience wants. It's just a bit more focused on its younger audience's immediate wants and needs rather than trying to expand into a multigenerational classic. Universal's Blu-ray release of Minions delivers high end video and audio. An fair amount of brief extras are included. Recommended.

Hysterical a must have in the children's movie collection

Despicable Me is a cute movie, with a decent but overdone story about a cold-hearted villain who adopts 3 girls to steal a shrink ray, only for him to fall in love with the girls and turning him into a softie. Not exactly original or as well-done as other films of its ilk, but it had an ace up its sleeve. The minions. These barely understandable jaundiced creatures who are extremely clumsy stole the show and created a huge juggernaut of toys, video games, stickers, food items and et cetera. 3 years later, Despicable Me 2 released, was an even bigger hit but is a lesser movie, mainly due to a bland story (yet again) and a bigger emphasis on the minions, losing the focus of the main characters. 2015 saw the release of our main focus today, Minions, and with the main focus on the Minions and their origin story, will it be great or just a marketing scheme? Apparently the minions have been around since the beginning of time, serving the most evil creatures and people of their time; everything from the mighty T-Rex to Napoleon, they have been subservient to evil only for them to muck it up and cause great ruin to their reigns. Banished to Antarctica, they finally find peace, but that slowly wanes to total boredom with no one to serve. 3 minions, Kevin, Stuart & Bob are sent to find a new master, where they end up in 1968 New York, during which they stay the night in a department store and watch some TV, unknowingly tuning into a secret signal advertising a villains convention in Orlando, Florida. There they find their new master, Scarlett Overkill (Sandra Bullock, in her first villainous role) who has plans to steal the crown jewels of England so she can become the new Queen of England. The minions decide to steal the crown, with a minion accidentally becoming the new king. Scarlett plots to steal them for herself, and potentially rule the world. Will the minions stop Scarlett, will they save the world and will the minions hype machine ever stop? After grossing over $330 million here in the US and over a billion dollars worldwide, its gonna trudge on full steam ahead for the foreseeable future. How did I feel about the film? Eh, its easily the worst Despicable Me film in the franchise, but its not all bad, just very mediocre in the greatest sense of the word. The biggest drawback is the main stars themselves, the minions. The minions work better as side characters due to their lack of character. Yes, they are cute and are unique, but beyond that, do they serve any purpose beyond laughs? The story is bland, the characters are poorly developed, the humor isn't up to par (even for a kids film) and the whole affair screams "cash grab" with the smallest iota of effort brought forth for the movie. At least the animation is nice and colorful, the film moves along at a nice clip to prevent boredom, but this is not one worth owning without kids in the house. Even then, I recommend something else entirely better than Minions. Luckily the PQ/AQ doesn't suffer the same fate as the movie as this is a high quality digital-to-digital transfer. The image is sharp, colorful and very detailed and is demo-worthy on a nice OLED TV. The 3D is just as detailed and colorful, with plenty of depth and some nice pop-out moments that add to the fun and is also worthy of demo-ing. The AQ is also worthy of praise, with the Dolby Atmos (7.1 Dolby TruHD core) that is excellent in every sense. Extras are surprisingly limp though with the main feature is the 3 mini-Minion movies (Also in 3D disc, but only in 2D), which are cute but nothing more. Also included is a deleted scene, an interactive map that contains several featurettes and photos, a 5-part featurette about the making the movie, a Jingle Bells minion remix video and a preview for The Secret Life of Pets, all in HD. A DVD and a digital HD copy is also included, topping off a pretty but shallow set. Overall, a mediocre movie with mediocre extras but excellent specs and terrific 3D, its worth it for demo purposes but nothing more.

Easily one of my favorite movies of the year, as well as my girlfriend (who this was purchased for). The movie goes back in time to show the origin of this goofy species of creatures and shows their successes and failures of finding the perfect boss...From pre-historic times and ancient Egypt, to the 1960's/70's follow Bob, Stuart and Kevin all over the world. The movie comes with a digital copy that can be redeemed and watched on the go through a proprietary format or if you're savvy enough to make your own digital copy, you've got a DVD as well to make it happen. Worth the purchase? Oh yeah. Hilarious movie to add to the collection and one that will be cherished for years to come.

To me, this doesn't quite measure up to the original or even the second Despicable Me. Now I understand this is focused on minions rather than the central villain character, but the premise of the movie Remains the Same - quirky characters, simple plot and humor that's targeting a wide range of ages. The movie does not disappoint but is certainly not the best in the franchise. I have to admit, I bought this movie Mostly for the 3D aspect. It is above average but on par with other despicable Me's comma and not as good as some DreamWork titles or Sammy's movies. The color pallet is bright and pops vividly on my active Samsung LED and Vivitek H1186 3D projector.

As a family, we love the Minions universe (Gru, Lucy and the whole gang including Stewart, Kevin & Bob). We bought this title for our cousin who's just getting into the Minions and it does not disappoint. This package comes with a Blu ray (for the house) and DVD (we use on long car rides) and the digital file which works for us on Apple TV and our phones, tablets and more!

Minions is a great addition to the "Despicable Me" movies, filling in what happened to the Minions before they worked for Gru. It ends with the point in time when they first meet him. While the movie is a lot of fun and the story is enjoyable, I myself rate it slightly below the Despicable Me movies. It didn't have quite as much feeling and depth that the others did, and when covering portions of the Minions past history, it felt quite rushed. Meanwhile, other parts seemed to drag a bit. While I liked it, especially in 3D, I really thought they could have done a lot better with the story than they did. Again, the 1st 2 movies with Gru were the best. (The potential of working a story of where the Minions came from, fell far short of what it could have been.) While disappointing, it was still worth seeing.

We saw this movie in the theater and decided to add it to our home collection. It was amazing...watching this movie was like being instantly transported back to the theater. We turned down the lights, I filled up a mop bucket with Coke, We gorged ourselves on greasy popcorn, someone kept kicking my chair, I had to use the restroom part way through and missed an essential scene, and my daughter started talking on her phone during the movie. But I saved a bunch of money, and my shoes don't stick to the floor like they do in the theater. I guess the movie was funny too.

I bought this movie for my grandchildren. When they opened the package on Christmas morning, they were thrilled. They wanted to watch it right away, but we had to finish opening presents and eat breakfast first. I never saw them open gifts so quickly, and eat so fast. Then in it went and they were mesmerized. My four-year-old grandson loves the Minions, and he sat as close to the TV as he could to watch, clapping his hands and laughing. I would recommend this movie for anyone with young children (and old children like me) to be enjoyed together over and over.

Relaxing is important at my age and most movies today feature drama, action or both. Well, so do the Minions movies but they also make you laugh, or go "ahhh" while they do it. While I'll tell people I bought this for the grandkids the secret is I like the little yellow scoundrels myself. Plus much of humor, music and associations seemed more aimed at people my age. Anyway, it's a fun, relaxing, far-out and humorous tale about how the modern "little rascals" came to be the comical henchman they are today. Great extra features - I look forward to more movies!

I purchased MINIONS on Blu-Ray for my little sister's Christmas and we decided to put it in the ole PS3 on Christmas night..absolutely beautiful 1080p presentation by Illumination Entertainment! It's absolutely gorgeous and the sound on Dolby Digital HD sounds amazing! The quality of the Blu-Ray is awesome! The film itself is widely entertaining to those of all ages! We laughed outloud numerous times! This version also came with the Blu-Ray, DVD, and DIGITAL HD so you can watch anywhere and anytime! Highly recommended!!!!

Since the original Despicable Me, the scene stealers, the characters that have shined- and in many ways, been the bridge that made a children's movie enjoyable for both kids and adults, have been the gibberish-speaking, silly, 3 Stooges' schtick Minions with all their tomfoolery. And while one has to question the Minions' self-awareness (or sense of self-preservation) with their antics, the bigger question might be how the creators lost sight of what made Despicable Me & DM2 so special. That special quality- a movie made for kids, with universal slap-stick comedy with subtle hints at comedy for adults- cleverly hidden and left imperceptible to kids- is fairly lost here in what should be an amazing movie with the pill shaped mascots taking front & center. Part of this is their own fault in making Gru (by all indications & hints) approximately 60 years old... With the Minions movie as a vehicle to the Minions meeting a young Gru, the setting takes place in 1960s England. As a 44 year old (with a 2 year old) even I had a hard time being able to identify with the time period... It just wasn't personal enough. As I watched more obvious jokes come via the form of lava lamps, bell bottoms, the Monkees' theme song, and the famous Beatles' Abbey Road album cover, it felt like this was less a movie for today's children and more for producers, directors, etc inner children. That's not to say children won't have any fun whatsoever, but what was a golden-yellow opportunity for the Minions to shine seems to have been lost in using this movie with the intention of appeasing too many adults; which is a shame, because, in my case, watching these movies with my son (who can watch Despicable Me 1 & 2 over & over, not so with Minions, where he surrenders before reaching the credits) is 3/4 of my enjoyment. Seeing him laugh and get into the movie is enjoyment enough... The previous movies sprinkled just enough in for me that they were favorites in the family genre. Minions seems to reverse that formula, expecting my son to be satisfied by seeing me enjoy humor he just won't get- it doesn't quite work that way. It's hard to call Minions a full failure, as it does have scenes where it's more true to its roots, and keeps us all laughing. The problem is, they don't last nearly as long as the previous entries in the series. With Despicable Me 3 on the way next year (and the end of Steve Carell's starring role as Gru) one can hope they recapture the magic, as well as hope that Gru isn't the crutch that's needed to continue the series. The world needs more Minions, but after the end of Carell's run, I hope the Minions movie isn't what is in store for any future iterations.

Really enjoyed the origin story of the Minions, even more some of the music to the movie. I bought the soundtrack on iTunes and liked that it had some actual 60-70s tunes, some Minion versions of the songs of the era (love "Revolution" and "Hair") as well as the orchestral soundtrack. I don't want to give away anything, but I was a bit disappointed they didn't show the Minions meeting with a young Dr. Nefario for the first time - I figured they could have worked that in pretty easily given his age in the Despicable Me movies.

Fun movie to go along with the Despicable Me series. The story line is simple but the minion actions make you laugh out loud. This is not a serious movie. It's fun to watch. Take it at that. Now for the disk set. You get a Blu-ray and DVD in the package. You also get a coupon to download the movie through ITunes and sign up for Ultra Violet for streaming services. Personally I cannot stand anything Apple or ITunes on Windows. It never works. I installed ITunes and downloaded the movie in Apple's MP4 format. It can only be played through ITunes and only if you meet their specification for digital HD delivery. Needless to say it did not work for me. Your mileage may vary.

Besides the main feature, there are three short films. Where and when did the Minions come (from)? How did they get connected to their beloved Despicable "villain?" These kinds of questions are answered with the backdrop of the history of humankind in this latest installment of animated fun villains. Even adults will enjoy the satire and opportunities to poke fun at famous historic figures. Everything Minion is here, including their biggest struggle, tangling a very evil female super-Villain.