What's RUINING Illumination Entertainment?

Illumination is a studio that excels at making financially successful movies. Unfortunately, their movies are also very average with generic stories and predictable characters. Why do they always aim for the lowest common denominator? What exactly is ruining this studio?

Saberspark is a YouTube channel who researches, reviews, and analyzes various movies and cartoon shows from the world of animation

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Audio Edits by CookieSoup

Research and Script Assistance by Jim Gisriel

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[Saberspark]

What do you all think of Illumination and their films? Which of their movies do you like and dislike and why is that the case?

[nanuqo]

Dr Seuss: exists
Illumination: Hippity Hoppity your books are my property

[lopson]

Dr Seuss: My books don't really work as movies so I'm not gonna give anyone the rights to them.
Movie companies after Dr Seuss died: It's free real estate

[optimuq]

So the new grinch is basically just squidward, but green

[ionlyusethischannelforplay]

Kid: “why are you so fat?”

Gru: “because... my house is made of CANDY. and sometimes, I eat it instead of FACING MY PROBLEMS.”

[Tom-vxqh]

Dr. Seuss: don't turn my books into movies
Dr. Seuss: *dies*
Movie companies: It's free real estate

[Bobsheaux]

Yeah... I got a Grinch ad before this video too. lol

[zakenmaru]

Honestly, Despicable Me started out as a heartwarming series about a villain trying to be the adoptive parent of 3 kids, with the stupid yet hilarious Minions helping him.
Then the rest of the movies got degraded into stupid Minions doing stupid unfunny shit.

[worrisomecritter]

Ok but have you the Onceler fandom? I can’t even look at him the same way-

[toothpasteeater]

Dr Seuss: *exists*
Illumination: oh diddly Dee this is for me!

[Saberspark]

By the way, I discovered a funny mistake in the video about 10 minutes before making it live. I'm curious if y'all can find it

[editmanrgg]

The opening describes the company as a whole.

[memesarelife]

“Minions don’t get vaccinations, why should your children”
This pissed me off

SO
MUCH

[CherriNGT]

*talks about The Lorax*
*DOESN'T EVEN MENTION THE ONCE-LER FANDOM THAT WAS INSANE*

[banira]

_"The cat in the hat"_ actually scared me when I was a child. I remember that for some reasons, it shocked me.
And in fact, I haven't watched it since the first time, when I was 7 X)

[FriedPlasticForks]

Here is the movie “Sing” in a nutshell:
American Idol but with furries.

Edit: Me: *Sweats in old comment and I literally haven’t seen this film before-*

[SushiWhyNot]

“The Lorax was a ok movie”
I T
H A D
D A N N Y
F R E A K I N G
D E V I T O

[LabMatt]

I don't trust people who add hyper-realistic cat buttholes to their films.

[camerontron]

Every despicible Me Film
Despicable Me (2010)
Despicable Me 2 (2013)
Despicable Me 3 (2017)
Despicable Me 4 (TBA)
Minions (2015)
Minions:The Rise Of Gru (2020)

[anormalguy]

Illumination is a great example as to why people don't take animation seriously.
Here's the thing, Illumination puts more effort in their marketing than in their own movies, to the point where their animated films become nothing but dumb entertainment for small kids.
Because of that, their movies are some of the most popular animated movies in history.
And due to this insane popularity and quality of their films, it only makes more people think that animation is nothing but stupid entertainment for small kids.