I got tired of this joke before the movie ended, but I appreciate the gusto with which the filmmakers -- particularly Coffin, with his nimble vocalizations -- carried it out.

In its own helter-skelter way, Minions achieves a loony symmetry. It starts with evolution and ends with revolution.

With its episodic stream of slapstick gags, Minions has moments of piquant absurdity, but mostly its shrill-but-cutesy anarchy works as a visual sugar rush for the preschool set.

Aside from a particularly polished animation design, I feel it doesn't live up to its predecessors and, at times, ends up being a chaotic and graceless exercise. [Full review in Spanish]