whether you consider it worthwhile or not, a whole team of people put hours and hours of hard work into making that movie and it’s advertising is no different than that of any other kid’s summer block buster.
yes, the minions themselves are very simple in design. fuck y’all for acting like that makes the weight and rigging that goes into their animation any less impressive. if anything, the keeping of their simplicity while making them as expressive as they are is excessively impressive, since ‘body language’ requires extreme motion of their entire frame.
something becoming successful doesn’t make it inherently terrible, and i get so tired of that mentality. the ‘my art is better than the minions and deserves more attention’ attitude is childish and beneath you.