Minions & Monsters

One-eyed James behind a movie camera

You know a film’s struggled a bit when the end credits are the best bit of it. Minions & Monsters is a case in point, a collection of individually brilliant scenes in search of a plot, exemplified by those end credits, which are the one-damn-thing situation distilled. Does anyone not know who the Minions are? This is the third outing for the little yellow animated servants away from their master, despicable supervillain Gru, whose own Despicable Me franchise has racked up four iterations, all of them also featuring the Minions. So that’s seven movies in all. Remarkably, all of the Minion movies have been written by Brian Lynch, and Pierre Coffin has directed … Read more