Minions & Monsters movie: Slapstick, spellbooks, and a message about trust

While some Christians are sounding alarms over the film’s magic moments, Charles Merritt believes that Minions & Monsters is actually a fun ride through Hollywood clichés, friendship, and learning who to trust

Film: Minions & Monsters

Age rating: U

Runtime: 89 minutes

See this if you liked: Minions: The Rise of Gru, Citizen Kane

Synopsis:

When the minions discover Hollywood, James the minion has dreams of making an Oscar worthy movie but in order to do so, he needs monsters…

Review:

I’ll be honest. I was avoiding this movie. After the last few Despicable Me/Minion movies, I’d been burnt too many times.

However, I genuinely think this is the best in the franchise since Despicable Me 2.

The movie opens inside a museum that holds Hollywood artifacts (chockful of cameos and easter eggs for all movie fans), where the tour guide begins to tell the story of James and Henry the Minions.

There’s some really amazing animation, comedic action sequences and fun moments

There is a fun sequence of the Minions trying to find their next bad boss, including an eye-watering moment featuring a Cyclops and some Lego that genuinely made me gasp! It’s worth noting that there a few moments like this that I’m not sure how they managed to sneak that past the U rating it’s been given…

The film centres around James, who’s more interested in creating stories than working for villains. He becomes best friends with Henry and another Minion who is deaf, called Ed, and they develop Minion sign language to help him communicate.

When they accidentally (and literally) crash a Hollywood movie set, they are ……