Minions & Monsters

"Hollywood has a monster problem."

2026 1h 30m EN

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7.6

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6.4

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★7.6TMDB · 1,245●70Metacritic★6.4IMDB · 20,137

AdventureAnimationComedyFamilyFantasy

Synopsis

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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.

“Hollywood has a monster problem.”

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Cast

Pierre Coffin
The Minions (voice)
Trey Parker
Goomi (voice)
Christoph Waltz
Max (voice)
Allison Janney
Olivia (voice)
Jesse Eisenberg
Dort (voice)
Jeff Bridges
Frank / Elwood (voice)
Zoey Deutch
Debbie (voice)
Bobby Moynihan
Phillips (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Pierre Coffin
Writers: Brian Lynch, Pierre Coffin, Nima Azarba
Languages: English, Spanish
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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90 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Mid-budget at $85M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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3 / 8

MONEY

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Made its money back 6.1× over at the box office.

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4 / 8

ERA

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Released this year — you're seeing it while it's still in the cultural conversation.

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5 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Spanish.

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6 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Minions Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by John Powell. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Gregory Perler shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Pierre Coffin directs. John Powell scores. Gregory Perler cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Spanish.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

190 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Mid-budget at $85M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
3Made its money back 6.1× over at the box office.
4Released this year — you're seeing it while it's still in the cultural conversation.
5Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Spanish.
6Part of the "Minions Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
7Original score by John Powell. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Gregory Perler shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Pierre Coffin and Trey Parker and Christoph Waltz carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "Hollywood has a monster problem.".
11IMDB entry: tt32890033 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 19 themes, including "magic", "sequel", "alien", "prequel".
13Released under 22 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Original score: John Powell
Editing: Gregory Perler
Sound: Jeremy Bowker
Runtime: 90 min · 1h 30m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $85,000,000
Box office: $519,033,384
Return: 611% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Minions & Monsters (2026)
Metacritic: 70/100
IMDB rating: 6.4/10 · 20,137 votes
MPAA: PG

Part of

Minions Collection

Minions Collection is a comedic animated series spun off from Despicable Me, focusing on the mischievous yellow creatures and their chaotic adventures. With fast-paced humor, colorful visuals, and quirky characters, the films explore themes of loyalty, ambition, and absurdity, delivering lighthearted entertainment for audiences of all ages.

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CinemaSerf2026-07-12
★ 6/10
When the yellow perils manage to gatecrash a film studio and cause havoc on the set of a film, the director is terrified that his two rotund bosses will want his head. Instead, though, they adore the chaos and commission him to make more films featuring the "Minions". Swiftly, they go from rags to riches and are hugely popular until... Sound. Silent movies have gone the way of the dodo and now there is to be audio. Yikes - who wants to sit in a drive-in and listen to lots of squeaking and squawking coming from these diminutive stars? Well, nobody really and so swiftly they are back out on poverty row once more with nowhere to go. "James" and his pal "Henry" conclude that their film-making days are not yet over when their erstwhile director gives them an old boxed Brownie, but they need a baddie. What better one than a monster, and when they stumble upon an ancient book of spells and arouse the mischievous "Goomi" they appear to have solved their problem - without realising that this isn't so much a big jelly of a stage beastie, it's one that is being controlled to absorb everything in it's path be that animal, mineral or solid concrete. Now it is the pretty urgent task of these "Minions" to reverse their spell before they, and all of their fellows, become extinct. Aside from this being quite an entertaining homage to the golden days of Hollywood it's all just a terribly predictable and dare I say forgettable affair. I enjoyed the "Minions" best when they were the henchies of the menacing "Gru", but here the whole thing just lacks soul a bit and the normally appealing gibberish - where we try to pick out actual words in any language from their twittering - started to annoy me for the first time as this stretched out what felt like an half-hour television episode into a thinly-spread feature. For some reason, it's told to us via a reflective narration from a museum curator so there isn't even any jeopardy either, and I left thinking it really quite disappointing. Certainly it's a watchable effort and the kids in the cinema did seem to love it, but there's much less for those grown-ups amongst us and it seems to content to rest on it's previous laurels a little too much for me.
Enes2026-08-13
★ 5/10
They've even ruined this. It's lost its old charm. This is the first time I've been so bored while watching Minions. It's not bad, but it's not great either. It's just something to watch casually. Either I'm getting old and it doesn't give me the same feeling anymore, or they've really messed it up. It's actually an animation I really loved. Still, thank you for your effort.