"The Minionator" for Despicable Me

[Kerr Avon]

Anyone see this movie yet? If you have a smart phone, be sure to get the Movie Mode item from Best Buy installed. You install it and go into the movie mode prior to the trailers. It picks up a tone played right before the movie starts and then at the end credits vibrates to let you know it'll begin the translations of the little minions talking during the credits. It's a pretty sweet little app and shows some ingenuity as it also silences your phone and puts it into a low light mode. After it was complete it unlocks an extra feature, in this case a short interview about the movie with the director.

The movie is pretty fun by itself, not the greatest, but still fun. Throwing in this neat litlte tool adds more to the experience. The app has been updated showing that more movies will be coming with similar experiences.

 

[Contec]

I dont fully understand what it is because i don't have a smart phone, but is it something like a home MST3K sorta thingymajingi?

 

[Kerr Avon]

Kind of. Little dialogue boxes appear on the screen of the phone when the Minions are chattering on the movie screen so it lets you have more insight on what's going on. Instead of just seeing what they are doing, you know what they are discussing too.

 

[sycor]

Great, as if we don't get enough complaints about ppl texting during movies, now the studios are trying to get people to have their phone lit up during a movie. *sigh*

 

[Contec]

I think its on a dvd or something...

 

[Darklighter]

Great, as if we don't get enough complaints about ppl texting during movies, now the studios are trying to get people to have their phone lit up during a movie. *sigh*

Its only during the credits.

 

[clonesix]

Its only during the credits.

Sure, but every idiot on earth is going to try and listen to them during the movie.

 

[Aegis159]

I downloaded the app and ran it during the movie... or at least tried to. There's an audible set of tones at the beginning of the film that let your phone know that the movie has started, and during the credits it's suppose to show you what the minions were saying, but halfway through the film I had to restart the damn app because it had reset itself for some reason. So by the end of the film it was still set in "Movie Mode" and nothing was coming up on the screen.