Minions & Monsters
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| Directed by | Pierre Coffin |
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| Edited by | Gregory Perler[1] |
| Music by | John Powell |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures[1] |
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Running time | 90 minutes[2] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $85 million[3] |
| Box office | $508 million[4][5] |
Minions & Monsters is a 2026 American animated period comedy film directed by Pierre Coffin, who co-wrote the screenplay with Brian Lynch. Produced by Universal Pictures and Illumination, it is the third installment in the Minions prequel series and the seventh overall installment in the Despicable Me franchise. The film stars Coffin as the Minions, alongside Trey Parker, Allison Janney, Christoph Waltz, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeff Bridges, Zoey Deutch, Bobby Moynihan, and Phil LaMarr. Taking place in 1927, Between Silent film & Sound film, 41 Years before the events of Minions (2015), the film follows a group of Minions as they aim to make a monster movie of their own in Old Hollywood.
The film was announced in July 2024, after the release of Despicable Me 4, with Coffin and Lynch returning to direct and write, respectively, and Chris Meledandri producing alongside Bill Ryan. John Powell composed the score, marking his third collaboration with Illumination following The Lorax (2012) and Migration (2023) and the first Despicable Me installment not to be scored by Heitor Pereira.
Minions & Monsters premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on June 21, 2026, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 1 by Universal Pictures. The film received positive reviews and was a box office success, grossing $508 million worldwide, becoming the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2026.
Plot
Thousands of years ago, a tribe of Minions, different from the one that would go on to serve Gru, are on a hunt to serve the world's greatest villains, but in many different ways inadvertently kill their masters. James, more artistic with a passion for painting and drawing, quickly develops a close friendship with two others, Henry, a minion who became best friends with James, and Ed, a mute minion who communicates using sign language and became close to them. Among the many masters the Minions serve is a Russian warlock, killed by a monster after Henry summoned it from his spellbook, which Ed then takes along with them.
Eventually, the tribe stumble across a bank robbery, and decide to chase after the robber to become his henchmen. However, it is revealed that the robbery is all staged for a Hollywood film production when breaking the train through the streets out of the set in 1927. Though filmmaker Max is furious with the Minions, studio executives Frank and Elwood Bright, heads of Bright Brothers Pictures, are enamored by their antics, so Max hires the Minions to star in his films and soon become a global phenomenon, appearing in several silent films and allowing them to live a life of Hollywood stardom.
When sound film is introduced, the Minions are unable to adapt to the new technology due to their incomprehensible language. Costing the studio millions in failed material, the Minions are fired as their stardom crashes to force the tribe into resting in an abandoned factory. Not wanting to give up on his passion, James comes up with an idea by his sketchbook to make his own movie titled Minions & Monsters where the Minions would fight against giant creatures. The leader of the tribe, Dick, rejects James' idea and leads the rest of the Minions back towards finding a new evil master, but Henry and Ed break away from them to help James make his film a reality. They pitch it to Max, who encourages James to work on the movie himself, providing him a film camera before Ed, who overheard Max's advice to them about making their movie, gets the idea to use the warlock's old spellbook to summon a squid monster to use. They end up releasing a smaller monster named Gary Orkam Oliver Magma Ichabod "Goomi" the Deceiver, who agrees with James' idea and offers to help him find the perfect monsters for his film.
Meanwhile, Dick and the other Minions are hired by a futuristic alien robot named Dort, who is determined to invade Earth. Even when Dort's cracks begin to show, Dick believes that he is the one to lead them. While trying to start his conquest for world domination, Dort ends up falling in love with women's rights activist Debbie, enlisting the Minions' help to romantically pursue her. Goomi leads James, Henry, and Ed to a frozen fortress and frees sea monsters Howard and Phillips under the false pretense of using them as stars in James' movie. In reality, he aims to use them to summon Irene (Eyereen), a large Kaiju-sized, orange, multi-eyed blob monster, in order to destroy the world. Henry overhears this and tries to alert James, but Howard and Phillips kidnap him, using him as a sacrifice in the 'scene' where Irene will be summoned. Just as shooting begins, Irene breaks out by Goomi and begins wreaking havoc.
When Dort and the other Minions witness Irene chasing Henry through the streets, Dort seemingly flees in panic, forcing some of the Minions to fight Irene for themselves. Irene succeeds in swallowing Henry, with James entering her with a milk car to rescue him, while the Minions take over from the military in holding her off and free the boys out of her. At first, they succeed in tearing her apart, but Irene simply reconstructs herself. Just before she consumes them, Dort re-emerges with the other Minions in spacecraft, and they successfully destroy Irene. Henry and James then cast an undo spell to send Goomi, Howard, and Phillips back into where they came from with the spellbook, now freed upon Irene's destruction. The public hails the Minions and Dort as heroes as Ed had captured the entire battle on film, allowing the Minions to complete James' movie. Months later, Minions & Monsters debuts in theaters and receives a standing ovation from the audience, while Dort starts a family with Debbie.
In a film museum, during this, tour guide Olivia, who told her group the story of James and Henry and how they made a significant impact, finishes her story before it is revealed that the entire plot, including the tour, is a film within a film, directed by James and Henry. In the mid-credits, the spellbook falls in the hands of Gru's Minions and is tested by James, Henry, Kevin, Stuart, and Bob, as well as one of Gru's adoptive daughters, Agnes.
Voice cast
- Pierre Coffin as the Minions,[6] including:
- James, a short, one-eyed, blue-eyed Minion who loves to make art and develops a passion for filmmaking
- Henry, an average height, two-eyed and also blue-eyed Minion who is James' lifelong best friend
- Ed, a tall, wide, and deaf two-eyed Minion who communicates using sign language
- Dick, a tall one-eyed Minion who is the strict, bossy leader of the greater minion tribe.
- Greg, a very short (formally average height), two-eyed Minion, and Dick's 2nd in command, who shrank in height after Dick accidentally hit him in the head with a metal pipe.
- Allison Janney as Olivia, a tour guide. Janney previously voiced Madge Nelson in the first film.[6][1][7]
- Christoph Waltz as Max, a film director who hires the Minions to star in his movies[6][8]
- Jeff Bridges as Frank and Elwood Bright, twin brothers and the bosses of a film studio[6][8]
- Jesse Eisenberg as Dort, an alien robot that the Minions see as their potential boss. He is a parody and homage to the character Gort from the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still.[6][9]
- Trey Parker as Goomi, a small Cthulhu-resembling monster whose name is short for "Gary Orkam Oliver Magma Ichabod the Deceiver". While Parker previously voiced Balthazar Bratt in Despicable Me 3 (2017)[6][10], his name is inspired by the nickname from character designer François Launet.[11]
- Zoey Deutch as Debbie, a strong-willed suffragette and Dort's love interest[6][1]
- Phil LaMarr as Howard, a tentacled monster freed by Goomi. The character is named in homage to writer H. P. Lovecraft[6][7]
- Bobby Moynihan as Phillips, a piscine/blue piranha-like monster freed by Goomi. The character is named in homage to writer H. P. Lovecraft[6][7]
Additionally, George Lucas makes a cameo appearance as a fictionalized version of himself.
Production
Development
The concept for the film comes from producer Chris Meledandri, who wanted to explore a film where the Minions make a movie with monsters before unleashing them into the world. Meledandri pitched it to veteran director Pierre Coffin, whom liked the idea, then to not direct another film after Despicable Me 3, and decided to have the film set during the early days of Hollywood based on his love for the old cinema.[12]
In July 2024, during the release of Despicable Me 4, a third Minions film was announced with Coffin set to direct and reprise his role as the Minions with Brian Lynch to write the script and Meledandri to produce alongside Bill Ryan whom is the co-president of production at Illumination Studios Paris since Migration (2023) and co-executive produced The Super Mario Bros. Movie and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.[13] In addition, Patrick Delage, whom previously worked on Despicable Me 4 with one of the original directors, Chris Renaud (whom is also executive producing this film alongside Lynch), served as a co-director alongside Coffin upon working with him from making the Pat & Stan film, The Treasure of Pit and Mortimer, to making the "Fraternité" segment that features the Minions for the Paris 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony.[14][15]
The film was later announced as Minions & Monsters during the Super Bowl LX as it shares the same title as the 2021 short that aired on NBC on June 11, 2021,[16] and on the DVD release of Minions: The Rise of Gru on September 6, 2022.[17] The film carries an estimated $85 million budget.[3]
Casting
In March 2026, Trey Parker, Jesse Eisenberg, Zoey Deutch, Christoph Waltz, Jeff Bridges, Bobby Moynihan, Phil LaMarr, and Allison Janney were announced to star in the film.[18][19] Parker had previously voiced Balthazar Bratt in Despicable Me 3 and Janney had voiced Madge Nelson in the first Minions film.[20] In June 2026, filmmaker George Lucas was revealed to have a role after being approached by Meledandri for a potential involvement due to Lucas being an admitted fan of the Despicable Me franchise.[21]
Animation and design
Animation was provided by Illumination Studios Paris. Due to the film having creatures inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, the monster designs along with the drawings from the warlock’s spellbook comes from one of the character designers François Launet who previously worked at a SFX supervisor from Mac Guff before its animation unit was bought out by Illumination in 2011. His nickname “Goomi” was used for Trey Parker’s character as a Japanese word for ‘garbage’ than just his full name.[11] The characters around Goomi, Howard and Phillips were heavily close to his 2003 ongoing webseries “Goomi’s Unspeakable Vault of Doom” as Launet compares the monsters in the film to his own characters such as Cthulhoo (a mirror to Goomi), Nyarly (a mirror to Howard) and Dagoon (a mirror to Phillips).[22][23]
Music
In April 2026, John Powell was announced to be composing the film's score, marking his third collaboration with Illumination following The Lorax (2012) and Migration (2023), as well as the first Despicable Me installment not to be scored by recurring composer Heitor Pereira.[24] Coffin reached out to Powell, with Powell visiting Illumination's Paris office to meet with Coffin and spot the film. Powell remained in Paris for a week to write the musical cues before presenting them to Coffin, who approved, and by April 2026, Powell recorded the score at the Barbra Streisand Scoring Stage within the Sony Pictures Studios lot in California.[25]
Powell noted that his approach to the score for Minions & Monsters was intentionally "indulgent" and different from how he would score "a serious movie", stating that the music can be described as "[o]verly emotional, overwrought, overplayed, overwritten. Just over. Everything was over."[25] Several of the film's musical cues recalled the music of Hollywood's Golden Age, referencing scores by composers Carl Stalling (Looney Tunes), Bernard Herrmann (Psycho), Franz Waxman (Bride of Frankenstein) and Max Steiner (King Kong).[25] Many staff players in his orchestra previously worked on the animated television series Freakazoid! and Animaniacs.[25]
Marketing
A Super Bowl promo and official trailer was released and aired on February 8, 2026, during the Super Bowl LX. Footage of the film was showcased in April 2026 during CinemaCon.[8] Wendy's has also done a promotion for the film starting from June 8, 2026, by having a meal and a toy.[26] There is also a frosty that is packaged with the toy as well.[27] The promotion has no definitive end date as it will continue as long as supplies last.[28]
Release
Theatrical
Minions & Monsters premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on June 21, 2026,[29] and was theatrically released in the United States on July 1 by Universal Pictures. It was originally planned for release on June 30, 2027, but was later moved up to the date previously reserved for DreamWorks Animation's Shrek 5 before that film was postponed.[13][30] The film debuted on the same opening date as Universal Kids Resort, which includes the Minions-themed land "Minions vs. Minions: Bello Bay Club".[31]
Home media
On August 4, 2026, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment announced that Minions & Monsters would be released on digital download on August 11, 2026, and will be released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD on September 8, 2026.[32]
Reception
Box office
As of August 25, 2026, Minions & Monsters has grossed $182 million in the United States and Canada and $325 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $508 million.[4][5][33][34] It was produced on an $85 million budget.[5]
In the United States and Canada, Minions & Monsters was initially projected to gross around $80 million from 4,243 theaters over its five-day Independence Day holiday frame. Internationally, projections were around $90 million, for a projected worldwide opening of $170 million.[35] The film opened to $14.2 million on its first day, $37 million by day three, and $62 million over the 5-day holiday frame, opening #1 at the box office but marking a franchise low-opening.[36] Compared to Despicable Me 4, the last numbered installment, and the previous spin-off Minions: The Rise of Gru, which both opened to $120 million and $122 million respectively over the same frame, Minions & Monsters was considered to be a "major" disappointment.[33][34] The poorer-than-usual opening was attributed to America 250 Celebrations driving away ticket sales, competition from Disney and Pixar's Toy Story 5, and "franchise fatigue" from the Despicable Me series, though some outlets expressed optimism of the film's performance over the coming weeks.[36][37][38][39] In its second weekend, the film grossed $21.2 million, dropping 43%, and finished in second place behind Moana.[40][41] Minions & Monsters finished in fourth place during its third weekend with a gross of $13.6 million, dropping 36%.[42][43]
Critical response
Minions & Monsters received positive reviews from critics, with many deeming it the best installment in the franchise since Despicable Me (2010).[44][45][46][47] On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, 89% of 180 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The website's consensus reads, "The Minions bring their penchant for mayhem to Hollywood history in this affectionate and charming sendup of moviemaking magic, turning out the franchise's most roundly enjoyable entry yet."[48] It is currently Illumination's highest-rated film on the website. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, gave the film a score of 70 out of 100, based on 30 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[49] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale, while 58% of those surveyed by PostTrak said they would definitely recommend the film.[34][50]
Drew Taylor of TheWrap called the film "a love letter to classic Hollywood" and "builds to an open-hearted tribute to the power of the communal moviegoing experience",[44] while Guy Lodge of Variety described it as "smarter, wilder and funnier before the monsters enter the equation", is "fully, madly moviosa", and that it was a "mostly delightful" entry.[1] John Nugent of Empire gave the film three out of five stars, concluding: "It is goofy and giggly and resolutely wedded to stupidity. There's little attempt to add much depth to the story, in the way that Pixar might try to — it is essentially, once again, just a series of contrived opportunities for the little guys to get up to chaotic mischief."[51]
Clint Worthington, writing for RogerEbert.com, gave Minions & Monsters three and a half out of four stars, stating that despite the less compelling second half of the film, it manages to be "the snappiest, most cohesive, and entertaining entry in this [Minions] series to date", and concluded that the film "feels like Coffin interrogating the Minions' place in the annals of film history. … He argues, and here successfully, that the Minions aren't a scourge of the universal loss of attention span and cultural sophistication. Rather, these little guys are simply the purest and latest distillation of the very impulses that have made cinema one of mankind's most enduring art forms: characters in motion, working hard to entertain, distract, and provide a communal experience for those who enjoy them."[46] Eric Goldman of IGN gave the film a grade of 8 out of 10, concluding: "Using the Minions to create an ode to early Hollywood that's also an overall love letter to movies themselves and the power of storytelling is a surprising yet welcome turn of events."[45]
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