Minions & Monsters Review: Plenty of Jokes, Not Quite a Story
Official promotional image for Minions & Monsters . Used for review and commentary. I saw Minions & Monsters as part of my youngest son's birthday celebration. He is a fairly rabid fan of both Despicable Me and the Minions films, so this was not a particularly difficult audience to win over. And the movie succeeded: he enjoyed it, I laughed quite a few times, and its excursion through early Hollywood contains some genuinely clever ideas. What surprised me was how little of the film remained once we left the cinema. A great deal happens in Minions & Monsters . Very little of it seems to matter. The film's smartest idea — placing the Minions in the silent-film era — also exposes the central problem with building an entire feature around them. They are excellent engines for physical comedy precisely because they never really change. Over a few minutes that is a strength. Over ninety, it becomes considerably harder to turn chaos into a story. The Mi...