Top 10 Problems with Illumination Entertainment

With the release of Despicable Me 3 (a particularly bad movie, in my opinion and that of others), followed by The Secret Life of Pets 2 and Minions: The Rise of Gru, I'm starting to get very fed up with this studio.

I've made a post about this bad animation studio before, and it really has problems. I wanted to make a list where people can discuss the problems they have with this animation studio and see which ones they share.

The Top Ten

  1. They are greedy

    They really don't seem to care about the final product of their movies, because they make so much money just by marketing them. This is evident in Despicable Me 2, Minions, and Despicable Me 3. Since the Minions are in them, people obviously saw these movies, and they made a ton of money!

  2. Their animation style is very simplistic and uninteresting

    I really don't like their animation style. The character designs are so simplistic that they become boring, with the exception of Gru from Despicable Me and a few others. You can't even tell the difference between the Minions' personalities or their looks!

  3. They are planning to make so many sequels

    In the words of Saberspark, Illumination is like a carbon copy of DreamWorks, specifically their practice of turning movies into cash cow franchises. And not in a good way.

    The Secret Life of Pets 2, Minions 2, Despicable Me 3, and possibly Sing 2 - why?! They don't need sequels!

  4. They are unoriginal

    The Secret Life of Pets was an obvious ripoff of Toy Story, for example. And Sing just ripped a bunch of pop songs from the last decade and put them in the movie to attract audiences!

  5. They unleashed the Minions on the world

    I don't need to say anything more. I hope these yellow creatures disappear for good.

    No explanation needed from me.

  6. Their stories are very weak

    The stories are so simplistic and have such low conflict most of the time that they become very boring!

  7. Their characters are mostly weak

    Seriously, characters like the Minions are so similar that you can't distinguish their personalities. They have such simple character designs. Another example is Sing, where all the characters seem made to pander to specific groups of people, like moms or angsty teens.

  8. Their movies have mostly bad jokes

    All their movies are full of bad jokes and constant references to other movies or TV shows. But some of them take it to a new level of obscurity.

    Honestly, Despicable Me had some pretty clever comedy, but after that, the jokes in their movies were mostly just poor sight gags or the dreaded "lol RANDUM" humor.

  9. They are lazy

  10. They don't care about quality

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  11. They have a racial stereotype in one movie

    Who's the racial stereotype? And what movie is this character from?

  12. Their animation all looks similar

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