Review | The Minions Are as Adorable and One-Dimensional as Ever in New Sequel

When the Minions, those yellow, pill-shaped something-or-others from the Despicable Me films, were gifted with their own franchise starting with 2015’s Minions, two things became clear: they’re adorable, and they have almost no character traits beyond being adorable, especially while a frantic story swirls around them. Their 2022 adventure, Minions: The Rise of Gru, corrected this somewhat by giving us a more robust story that included a preteen Gru, allowing the Minions to function better as supporting characters. Minions & Monsters lands somewhere in the middle. Here, the Minions wreak havoc in a silent movie-era Hollywood that’s fun to explore and often yields comedic dividends. But it also shows there’s a finite number of cutesy sight gags, endless chase scenes, and childlike babbling that this franchise can sustain before it becomes tiresome.

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