You may not like it but the Minions have saved western animated movies after Disney/Pixar have been putting out nothing but flop after flop and direct to streaming shit.
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Minions 2: The Rise of CHADru
That poster background.
>We can do this!
You better go out and see the movie or your post will flop. I'll even buy everyone the fricking pop-corn!
Why are we suddenly rooting for Despicable Greed of all brands?
despicable me and minions are kino and better than anything released by disney and pixar in the last decade
>despicable me and minions are kino
ENOUGH with the irony!
>How about a magic trick? I'm going to make Pixar disappear...
>If Pixar keeps releasing films like Lighyear Walt won't be able to buy a nickle for his granma
>I'm going to make Pixar disappear...
Disney pulled that trick when they bought them. It killed the Pixar spark.
Iger was the worst thing to happen to Disney.
>You think you can outgross Lightyear and just walk away?
We live in a Minion society.
>and better than anything released by disney and pixar in the last decade
That just says more about the absolute state of the animation industry than it does about Minions.
They collabed with Yeat
We only hated the over the place productplacement and merch! Oversaturation results in a counter reaction.
Despicable Me was a hit in 2010 because it was a refreshingly wholesome and fun family film. Pixar's latest films, Up and Toy Story 3, were a bit depressing, and Dreamworks' latest, How to Train Your Dragon, took itself quite seriously. Audiences just wanted a casually fun and lighthearted CG film, and then Despicable Me came out of nowhere and fitted the bill
>How to Train Your Dragon
Shrek 4 and MegaMind was released around that same time too.
And Disney with Tangled later on.
Megamind and Tangled came out after Despicable Me
there was also Cloudy with Meatballs in late 2009, but that was more of a slapstick disaster film parody than a wholesome family film. There was a father-son subplot, but it wasn't the main focus (unlike Despicable Me, where the family stuff is the focus)
and as for films like Astro Boy and Planet 51, let's just say they didn't click with audiences, as proved by their box office results
Made for cooming.
It’s gonna be hilarious to see everyone lusting after this black girl while everyone avoids the Lightyear ones like the plague.
For me, it's Scarlet Overkill
Is this the only reason why people over 12 watch animation now?
A European shit post is dabbling on the animation industry, on 4th of July week, Irony you cruel b***h
we’re rooting for minions because it’s just GAGS. You know, what cartoons were for 90 fricking years? call me a boomer, but I watch cartoons with my family to laugh, not for messages.
I feel like this is just the Morbius meme but repackaged
Minions didn't need the Morb meme to succeed. First Minions did 115m OW.
Unlike Morbius people are actually showing up to support minions. The showing today was packed with more adults than children. There was even a group of teens wearing overalls with yellow shirts. Shit was wild.
What if this flops? What’s going to happen to western animation? I doubt it will because Illumination has mediocre family friendly entertainment and soccer moms in the palm of their hands.
If it did flop, would that be a good thing? Maybe some woke animation needs to die for a while. If this succeeds, it means people just want bland but palatable 3D animation still.
It's not gonna flop
Every Illumination movie except for Hop has made back triple their budget
What is their secret? Low budget but fairly quality cartoony animation, extremely safe and audience tested = make threefold back?
Illumination's biggest advantage is that they're not based in Hollywood. They're not working in a hyper-politicized environment, and they don't have to deal with the same level of graft to conduct even basic business.
So that's why Nintendo chose them over other companies, huh.
Or maybe it's the fact their films have collectively made $8 billion dollars in box office against a combined budget of under $1 billion.
Look, I think their films are bland. But they are quietly the most successful animation studio of the past decade. Why wouldn't someone like Nintendo work with them?
Bland attracts bland
What are you talking about? The work is done in Paris but the studio is owned by Universal, it's not like it's some outsider indie project.
>The work is done in Paris
That's the point. They aren't working in Hollywood, they aren't hiring from Hollywood (minus the VAs), they aren't dealing with the politics and rules of Hollywood. Doesn't matter who owns them. Sony Pictures is owned by Sony, but they sure as hell aren't run like a Japanese company.
>they aren't dealing with the politics and rules of Hollywood.
Whatever bullshit you're imagining, nothing is going in their movies that Universal isn't approving.
>nothing is going in their movies that Universal isn't approving
It's more about what Illumination is not putting in their movies.
this feels an awful lot like when conservatives burned Nike shoes or went out and bought Goya products. Your mental gymnastics are telling you that illumination is kinobased because it doesn’t acknowledge that lgbt people exist like Disney does so now you’re going to wienerride them into the sunset, huh? Let’s forget about most of their movies since despicable me being completely mediocre. You’re 100% a /misc/ tourist or are just doing console wars: politics edition. Either way this is genuinely embarrassing.
Not that anon and not a /misc/Black either but even the shittiest Illumination film (Secret Life of pets 2) was more enjoyable and fun to me than all of the recent Disney/Pixar's films with the exception of Encanto and it looks like most audiences agree with me. These are the facts.
>Your mental gymnastics are telling you that illumination is kinobased
I didn't say they were "kinobased", and my own politics and tastes in film have nothing to do with this. I clearly said I find their movies bland. But I cannot deny their success, or the mechanism of their success.
Anon asked what their "secret" is. Not being beholden to Hollywood politics at a time when people are highly divided, as well as the cost of doing business in Hollywood, is an advantage. You're the one who's unwilling to be objective because you're clearly invested in these politics.
Just got out of the theater. 10/10, pure fricking kino. You HAVE to see this in theaters, in 3d if you can afford it. I’m not ashamed to admit that I cried.
Getting money =/= good movie.
If anything it proves western animation still its simply a big ad for toys and products
>If anything it proves western animation still its simply a big ad for toys and products
You say that like it's a bad thing. If anything it should be even more like that but stupid laws made it harder and most cartoons outside of cable are educational stuff.
GRU!? The Intelligence Arm of the Soviet Army!?!
Predictive programming 101
Totally deserves the Oscar that Disney is inevitably going to steal. Such a powerful kino.
I mean. In a world full of agenda and propaganda, this is a breath.
A bland movie only made to make kids laugh and buy toys. Not trying to make 'em reconsidere their masculinity or change of gender. Just, this movie leaves alone the kids to be KIDS.
So, in the scale of SHIT the cinemas have today this is the most harmless.
>This doesn't speak too good about Minions, but speaks horribly bad of the western movie industry panorma as a whole.
#MinionsSweep
Does Kid Gru get to do more villainy than old Gru?