I loved this movie and it was great to read your review.

Thank you!

I could not stand the sequel and avoided the prequel.

I am planning to avoid the sequel; my brother didn't think it was as good and the one piece of information I've heard about the plot I am resolutely ignoring. He liked the prequel (and my niece loves it, because it is full of Minions), but I'm hearing more ambivalent things from my friendlist.