Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Tim K (Gosta1337) 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

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Banana" is a 3-minute short film starring the Minions from "Despicable Me". It came out after the first of the so far two movies and now that the Minions got their own film, it may be time to take a closer look at their short film past. The story here is very simple. One Minion has a banana, but another one sees it and wants it too. Pay attention to how some Minions have one eye and others have two. Quickly, a third Minion joins the battle, probably their foreman. The action takes place at a factory and it won't take too long until the entire staff is basically chasing after the banana. No good can come from that sadly and in the end, the banana is lost. Luckily for everybody, there's another delicacy around pretty quickly. I did not find this short film too funny to be honest. Not really recommended, only for hardcore fans of the Minions.

Michael_Elliott 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.

Gordon-11 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.