For audiences expecting little more than Minions-fuelled chaos, Minions & Monsters has a delightful surprise waiting. Beneath the slapstick, sight gags and monster-sized mayhem lies an unexpectedly heartfelt tribute to the magic of cinema itself. Set during Hollywood’s seismic transition from silent films to talkies, Illumination’s latest adventure isn’t simply about the Minions accidentally conquering…
On paper, Minions & Monsters sounds exactly as delightfully ridiculous as its title suggests: Minions accidentally conquer Hollywood, unleash monsters upon the world and somehow have to save it all over again. What our Peter Gray wasn’t expecting was a surprisingly heartfelt love letter to the movies themselves. Set against Hollywood’s transition from silent films…
There was a point where it felt as though the Minions had exhausted every conceivable avenue of chaos. After multiple Despicable Me entries and two standalone adventures, these yellow agents of destruction seemed destined to endlessly recycle the same collection of slapstick gags, gibberish conversations and increasingly frantic set pieces. Minions & Monsters doesn’t entirely…
Thanks to Universal Pictures and Illumination, we have 5 double digital in-season passes (Admit 2) to see the riotous new chapter in the biggest global animated franchise in history: Minions & Monsters. Fresh off the worldwide blockbuster success of summer 2024’s funniest comedy, ‘Despicable Me 4’, Illumination expands its joyful animated universe with a riotous…
To celebrate the home digital release of Despicable Me 4, thanks to Universal Pictures we have an exclusive piece of concept art to give away to one lucky reader, signed by the voice of Gru himself, Steve Carell, as well as a Digital Access Code so you can view the film at home. In Illumination’s…
Even though 2010’s Despicable Me was centred around Steve Carell‘s Eastern European reformed super-villain Gru, it was his hoard of indecipherable henchmen – his Minions – that stole the film from under his considerably rendered nose. They were funny without really trying to be, so it made perfect sense that subsequent films (Despicable Me birthed…
Despicable Me 3 opens this week and it brings with it a charming, if not a little repetitive, new chapter in the franchise. The entire gang is back to cause, create and then solve a global catastrophe. More of a good thing isn’t always better, kind of like chocolate and wine (ok, maybe just chocolate),…
