Minions & Monsters Wins 3rd-Film Praise as Franchise’s Best Entry in 90 Minutes
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Updated · The New York Times · Jul 1
Minions & Monsters Wins 3rd-Film Praise as Franchise’s Best Entry in 90 Minutes
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 1
Summary
The third Minions spinoff is hailed as the franchise’s strongest installment, with the 1-hour-30-minute PG film earning unusually warm praise for both kids and parents.
Pierre Coffin’s movie broadens the formula by jumping from prehistoric times to Hollywood, homemade filmmaking, monsters and aliens, using that anthology-like sprawl to refresh the series.
New Minion leads Henry and James replace Kevin, Bob and Stuart, while the review says the film relies less on pure gibberish-and-mishap slapstick and finds more actual jokes and imagination.
That shift suggests the 15-year-old Minions brand has grown beyond a fixed setup into a flexible cultural property that can be dropped into almost any setting.