Minions Review

Preface

Alright it just broke that Ben Affleck is directing and co-writing the next standalone Batman movie. It’s pretty late at night, I have to wake up early tomorrow so I can only talk about one thing…
Yeah Minions is more fresh in my head.
And funny enough, I never saw Despicable Me 2…
The first Despicable Me I thought was okay, I suppose… Nothing super special.
And though this Minions movie wasn’t perfect by any means, I had a pretty good time with it!

Premise

Okay, so Minions is the story of those little yellow potato things from the Despicable Me movies, only this time they’re the headliners.
This thing takes place in 1968 and it’s the Minions running around in the ‘60s, pulling shenanigans and such.
And yeah, it’s very enjoyable.
Here is the bottom line up front before I go into the specifics: kids and fans of the Despicable Me movies will LOVE this movie. If you loved the Despicable Me movies, you’ll love this movie too. I wasn’t a Despicable Me fanboy going in, and even then there’s still a lot of fun to be had with this movie, even if it gets fairly stupid at times.

Terminator: Genisys Review

Preface

Alright, now if you asked me a year ago before all the spelling-changes and trailers I would’ve said that Terminator: Genesis sounded super cool and could be a dark and gritty story like all the ones we seem to get nowadays.
- Like how the new Fantastic Four looks.
If you asked me a week or two weeks ago, I’d say, “okay friend, here’s why I’m extremely worried and don’t think that movie’s gonna be good…”
If you ask me after seeing the movie though I can thoroughly say:
I had a really fun time with the first half of this movie. The second half got a bit convoluted…
And you guys are gonna hear me use the word “functional” more in this review than I ever have on this site before… Be forewarned.

Premise

And yes, I did put the bad trailer above not the spoiler-filled one.
Trust me, don’t even watch a trailer going into this movie. More on that later.
But anyways, Terminator: Jenny Smith is the story of the rebooted Terminator franchise!
It’s a very, very long and hard plot to describe but ultimately it’s a retelling of the events from the first two (especially the first) Terminator movies and then kind of fixing everything in the Terminator universe so they can work clean going forward.
And that’s what it’s about. Mostly…?

Preface

Pixar is back, ladies and gentlemen!
And yeah this is gonna be a short review because there isn’t a ton I want to spoil. The even shorter version: see this movie.

Premise

As I said, I don’t want to spoil too much of this movie for you guys so I’ll keep the description vague but ultimately Inside Out is a little hard to describe as is…
Inside Out is basically about a girl named Riley and how her five primary emotions (Joy, Anger, Sadness, Fear, and Disgust) work inside her mind.
And it’s so SMART.

Preface

Clueless is a movie that I saw a few years back and ultimately I didn’t like too much for some reasons I’ll discuss in this review.
But then I re-watched it upon special request and have a different opinion which I’m more happy to talk about!

Premise

So Clueless is about teen life in L.A. in the 90s, and particularly about the shenanigans of one girl named Cher and her friends.
The movie doesn’t have one, set, particular storyline to it from beginning to end but these escapades ultimately tie together in a really neat way.

Preface

Spoiler Alert!
Okay, if you guys haven’t yet seen Jurassic World (which seems impossible seeing how much it made opening weekend) then this post is filled with spoilers.
Usually I’ll say, “hey read my Spoiler-Free Review then check out the movie then check out this review.”
BUT instead, you can still do that if you really want to savor the experience, or you could stay here and read a full Spoiler-Filled Review.
By that I mean, Jurassic World wasn’t the greatest movie in the world, so you could just read some of the particular aspects I had trouble with and still go into the movie knowing that and having a good time.
Either way, if you’ve seen the movie or not, we’re going into Spoiler Territory from here on out!