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I like Minions, the fact that I've (I believe) seen everything ever made of them and the Despicable Me universe is likely a testament to that.

Here in this roughly 3 minute effort we see the entire factory of Minions chasing after and competing for a banana.

It's silly, it's childish but it just works and is loaded full of charm and almost WB style funny moments.

Really watchable stuff for all ages.

The Good:

Charming

Minions!

The Bad:

Animation isn't quite at usual standard

Things I Learnt From This Short:

BANANA!

The Minions fight over a banana. Somebody while making the movie realized that banana is a funny word to say. This is a Minions short about their love of the bananas. What could be more fun than that. It's rather simple but effective.

Once in a lifetime you'll come across a film that truly captures the history and cultural distinctions of the modern world the way a person can subjectively perceive it through our guided field of perspective. I have to admit, I had my doubts when I first learned of the movie. After all, Banana? Will this movie even be good? How ignorant was I to even have these thoughts. Little did I know I was about to indulge in what may have been the best 4 minutes of my life. The movie started out strong. The opening scenes enticed the audience with a captivating enigma. I was so taken aback from the next-generation animation that I almost didn't even realize the underlying symbolism in the ongoing scenes. It wasn't until my twenty sixth viewing of the movie where I finally got my bearings together and was able to focus on the gripping and labyrinthine stratagem. The underlying analogy for 19th century distopianism and the evangelical deviation of typical orthodoxy was enlightening to say the least. Just when I thought the movie could not get any better, the increasing conflict before the climax began. I could not believe the complexity of the story as the main protagonist, Banana, struggled with the everyday endeavors for a quintessential fruit such as the consistent up- hill altercation of the fight against misogyny and the fiscal synergy of opposing interplanetary dynamism's. There I was, gripping to my chair as the conflict of the movie began. I was so enticed by the movie that I felt as if I was both practically and relatively apart of the movie. This is a special kind of high that not even the strongest of drugs can give you. Was I part of the movie? Am I inside the movie right now? This movie will leave you questioning existential nihilism and the objective skepticism of our perceived valuation of anthropological existence. At this point in the film, I was fully intoxicated by the avant-garde animated art style. That's when the plot finally aggrandized and I was completely stupefied. You could have lived a thousand years of isolation trying to predict the plot twist and you would never even scratch the surface of what actually transpires in the movie. I was so bewildered that I actually had to pause the movie so that my existential crisis didn't dive too deep inside of myself. Even pausing the movie was surreal. It's almost as if life paused with the movie. I felt as though I had actually become a cinematic tangent quantum. The effects are still wearing off and I haven't been able to watch the movie in several years. I spent the following seven years afraid of what outside of my house actually looks like. Every single day and night I live in misery because I became fully aware that happiness is never achievable. I realized that human life has absolutely no meaning and that no matter what I ever do, it is of complete unimportance and in years from now, no recollection of my existence will prevail, meaning that if I died years ago, died now, or die sometime in the future it will not matter whatsoever to anyone. But, then again, the fact that I'm living doesn't matter either so I might as well stick around for awhile, living in complete isolation, condemned to a life of traumatic memories and a completely corrupted sub-conscience. Banana literally ruined my life. 10/10

This short film is about the simple minded minions who chase themselves around for a banana, causing much havoc and even massive destruction in a weapons lab.

"Banana" is only three minutes long if you exclude the credits, but it manages to squeeze a lot in because of the quick paced plot. The minions are cute and fun to watch. Despite them uttering 'banana' and 'no' only, their simple minded actions and even their intentions are clearly portrayed.

It is very funny to see them acting impulsively, with no consideration of the consequences of their action. The short is entertaining and fun to watch. I enjoyed it.

You don't have to be a fan of the minions to appreciate this. Rather, I am not a fan of them since I consider them a Raving Rabbids ripoff, but this one is funny. It manages to make quite a bit of fun of the simple idea of desiring a banana. It may be a bit one-eyed (pun intended) but that is why it works. Thumbs up!

I found this on a DVD with half a dozen shorts. The others also had their points, but I found this to be the purest in its form. I have heard that comedians find it easier to find humor by restricting themselves to a tight concept, a kind of "creativity by limitations", and I think this is one such case. It is about almost nothing. A banana. Oh, by the way, we all know that bananas are the funniest vegetable out there (rhubarb is the second, and I guess strawberries are next) and this is not the only movie where it is more or less the whole title.

Banana (2010)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

One minion goes to peel a banana, which causes two more to want it so the chase begins. Obviously if you're a fan of DESPICABLE ME and the minions then you're going to want to watch this 4-minute short, which is rich on cuteness. The story itself is pretty ordinary but the animators give us a few funny moments and there's no doubt that the animation is about as good as you're going to get. There are some really good shots here and especially the one where a banana gets shot up into the air and we get a great view of dozens of minions slowly watching it.