The Minions are back and this time they’re taking on Hollywood in a seriously fun and funny adventure pitting them against producers and other terrible monsters.
After all the movies featuring the Minions, Despicable Me still stands as the best of the franchise, but Minions & Monsters is definitely the first great film from the stand-alone Minions movies. The story is inventive and fun–and funny, too–plus a little bit dramatic, channelling classic movie melodrama.
Set firmly in the era when “talkies” started taking over Hollywood, the movie has three Minions–Henry, James, and Ed, who are all voiced by director Pierre Coffin–trying to make it big. When their career as stars spectacularly falls apart, thanks to those distinctive voices, the trio decides to make a classic monster movie, but first they need some monsters.
And that’s of course where things go wrong.
I’ve been a fan of the Minions since Despicable Me, but it’s a lot easier to love the characters than their movies. My daughter always had a blast watching the films, but this is the first movie that feels like a serious step up in story quality. Coffin, who also co-wrote the script with Brian Lynch, finds the humour in the story within a story, within a story, and in send-ups of some great Hollywood moments.
A cameo by the one and only George Lucas sets the tone for a fun but surprisingly reverent dig into Hollywood, including a few classic characters, and adults will love spotting all the references while kids enjoy all the slapstick. It’s absolutely fun for the whole family.
Jesse Eisenberg as Dort is a standout in the film, and easily one of my favourite characters, but there are lots of characters that make the film work, from Coffin to Trey Parker as Goomi, Zoey Deutch as Debbie, Christoph Waltz as Max, and Jeff Bridges as both Frank and Elwood Bright.
Minions & Monsters opened in theatres on July 1, 2026.
Synopsis: This is the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together to try and save the planet from the mayhem they had just created.
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