Stupid Me 4 🇸🇪

We've seen them all, me and the kids. Stupid me. Stupid Me 2. Stupid Me 3. The Minions. The story of Gru. And yes, everything has been fine. None of that has been bad and my favorite among them all is spelled Stupid Me (1) closely followed by The Story of Gru. Funny, charming, headstrong, stylish movies with lovely characters. However, there is no doubt that the fourth is the worst of them all. Still "average", but no more.

We saw it at the cinema on Saturday and both my kiddoz were a bit bored, bizarrely enough. After the cinema screening was finished, both Vega (7) and Frank (9) touchingly agreed that it felt too long. And it did. Long. Stupid Me 4 felt like four hours long even to me and I think I know why, because it was overfed, bloated, saturated in a way that none of the previous movies had been. All the different clues to the story meant that the "main story" was kind of forgotten. There were high school memories, talent shows, tennis tournaments, arrogant neighbors, soda machines, super-Minions acting as X-Men, headmasters, kidnapped honey badgers and exactly/exactly everything in between. It became sausage-stuffing messy and when there was no room for dialogue or/and pauses, it was just a cascade of explosions and roars. A bit like Transformers 2 and 3. Or fixed 8. Idiocy, mostly. Where you as a viewer end up getting so full of the madness that the brain kind of shuts down.