Mower Minions

This Illumination computer-animated short preceded the company's feature of The Secret Lives of Pets. It stars those Despicable Me Minions who-after watching a commercial for Barb's Blender-decide to work to save for that. So they offer themselves to work at an old folks' yard. You can count on many disasters to occur for them as a result...I'll stop there and just say this was quite funny in the short time it took to get in the plot. Nothing seemed wasted during the whole thing and I found myself quite chuckling during much of it. A scene involving one of those statue gnomes was a highlight of this one. Really, all I'll say now is Mower Minions does the trick of being entertaining during its brief time.

This is a short animation that tells a group of minions who need to raise twenty dollars to buy a blender. They go to a residential home for the elderly, and ask for money. When their plan fails, they end up doing mischievous acts on the lawn.

"Mower Minions" is only four minutes long, but it manages to pack many things into it. There are so many family friendly jokes in such a short time frame, that I find very entertaining and impressive. I like the gnome joke a lot, and the bag breathing joke too. I find the short animation very funny. It is actually way better than the subsequent animation, "The Secret Life of Pets".

Mower Minions can't be said as one of the best short films I've ever seen but it is a funny short film. I love minions trying to get money to buy a new blender, but it's too bad for them couldn't enjoy the moment after they bought one and a new one came out. So, they have to start all over to get money to buy a new advanced model. Surely, it goes in a loop. In the real life, I feel like it's kind of like Samsung.

Anyway, although I don't think that this is one of the best short films I've ever seen, but it does have some funny moments. It's worth to watch.

The Minions need money to buy a blender as seen on TV. They steal a trailer of grounds-keeping gear and get a job mowing the lawn at a retirement home. It's a short of the Minions and their antics with lawn care. It's simple. It's a little harmless fun.

'MOWER MINIONS': Two and a Half Stars (Out of Five)

A 4-minute animated short film; which precedes 'THE SECRET LIVES OF PETS' (in theaters). This one is yet another tale revolving around the super-villain Gru's minions (from the 'DESPICABLE ME' franchise). In this short, they're trying to earn money for a blender, that they saw advertised on TV, by mowing the lawn for a local old people's home. They (of course) have a lot of trouble doing so. It was directed by first time filmmaker Glenn McCoy. The short is mildly amusing, and I'm sure children will enjoy it a lot more. At 4-minutes, you can't really find it too annoying either (I didn't). I've read that several older viewers have found it more entertaining than the feature it accompanies. I definitely wouldn't say that, but it is mildly enjoyable.

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