Film Review - Minions and Monsters (2026)

Minions and Monsters is the 3rd Minions spinoff film and sees the Minions making their way to 1920’s Hollywood where they become stars of the silent film era but when the industry transitions to sound and their dialect sees their career end Minions James, Henry and Ed decide to make a monster movie instead and travel to find the perfect monster to use but they should be careful what they wish for also.

Minions and Monsters is a pure delight that made me laugh a lot in the cinema and put a smile on my face for so much of it, those little guys still make me laugh with their unique way of talking/their physical comedy and inspired chaos that we used to see in comedies like Hot Shows, The Naked Gun and Airplane and while Gru isn’t in this movie I didn’t miss him all that much like I did in the 2015 Minions film.

The film also has a lot of great movie references ranging from famous voices (one in particular was lovely to see) to the Great Gatsby and Babylon to silent cinema in general as well as life on a studio lot as well as 1950’s Sci-fi cinema in one instance, some of these don’t 100% work but a lot of them do.

And lastly the monsters in this movie are great fun especially the monster that shows up towards the end of the film which is very memorable and good fun to watch on a decent sized cinema screen and the small green monster known as Goomi voiced by Trey Parker is good fun as well and acts as the equivalent of Gru from the 2022 Rise of Gru film and by that I mean the English speaking co-lead that helps to anchor the film.

And so that was Minions and Monsters and what can I say, I was delighted with its humour/monsters and cinema references, I had a great time here, 4 out of 5.