What I’ve Been Watching: 21/05/19 – 27/05/19
Rapping rabbits, banging beats, Bash Brothers, and redundant remakes.
Tag: Illumination Entertainment
Your 2019 Summer Movie Guide, Part 1
Return of the Guide (IT IS), return of the Guide (PUMP UP THE WORLD)!
The Grinch
Illumination’s take on The Grinch is not incompetent but it is thoroughly inessential.
The 3rd Annual Callum Petch Awards, Part 2
The other half of that “last double-stop.”
Despicable Me 3
Despicable Me 3 is a tired, stale, scattershot mess of a film that I’d be more forgiving of if, like the other entries in this series, it were actually funny.
Sing
Sing is a film that deliberately plays to all of Illumination Entertainment’s weaknesses and the results are exactly how that sounds.
The 2nd Annual Callum Petch Awards, Part 2
And now, the not-so-thrilling conclusion!
The Secret Life of Pets
The Secret Life of Pets is a very enjoyable joke machine, but a deeply confused one that illuminates Illumination’s continued weaknesses.
The Problem with Illumination
…and, in fact, most animation studios in general.
Minions
Minions is a precision-tuned, finely-honed, 91 minute joke machine.
