Pierre Coffin
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Maybe it’s a stretch, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that this may be Babylon for kids.
Screw Damien Chazelle’s Babylon or even La La Land; this one is for the fools who dream…
…shades of Babylon: Minions…
¿Quién hubiera dicho, además, que tendría más de una similitud con la caótica “Babylon”, de Damien Chazelle?
A story of the transition from silent cinema to talkies in the vein of “Singin’ in the Rain” or “Babylon,”…
…(let’s try to forget the wretched BABYLON)…
And then there was a guy hanging off a clock; that was Harold Lloyd, who made this fantastic movie called Safety Last!
…after mostly echoing films from a far earlier era, like The Great Train Robbery and Safety Last!
Homages to Safety Last!, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Jaws, A Trip to the Moon, The Mummy, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Metropolis are among the many callbacks movie fans can enjoy.
Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor’s Safety Last!
…with explicit references to Safety Last!, Steamboat Bill Jr., Modern Times, and Citizen Kane, among others…
Kids will surely be delighted to see the likes of A Trip to the Moon, Modern Times, Safety Last!, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Casablanca, and more, rendered through the frivolous lens of Illumination’s anodyne, elastic, rounded animation style…
A story of the transition from silent cinema to talkies in the vein of “Singin’ in the Rain” or “Babylon,”…
We get a nice riff on the oft-told tale of silents going from sound, perhaps best seen in SINGING IN THE RAIN…
You'd probably imagine something similar to Hail, Caesar!, The Artist, or even Singin' in the Rain, right?
If that premise sounds suspiciously like Singin’ in the Rain or The Artist by way of Illumination, well, that’s because it kinda is.
…everything comes crashing down "Singin' in the Rain" style with the advent of sound…
Essentially, Minions & Monsters is the kids’ version of The Artist – down to the conflict rooted in the protagonists’ failure to adapt to talkies…
You'd probably imagine something similar to Hail, Caesar!, The Artist, or even Singin' in the Rain, right?
…perhaps best seen in SINGING IN THE RAIN and THE ARTIST…
If that premise sounds suspiciously like Singin’ in the Rain or The Artist by way of Illumination, well, that’s because it kinda is.
…an early chase scene aboard a train visually nodding to the iconic housefront gag in “Steamboat Bill, Jr.”
Homages to Safety Last!, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Jaws, A Trip to the Moon, The Mummy, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Metropolis are among the many callbacks movie fans can enjoy.
Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton’s Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Buster Keaton’s 1928 film “Steamboat Bill, Jr.” Keaton is not the titular character and this film is best known for the facade of a house falling down, barely missing Keaton’s character.
Kids will surely be delighted to see the likes of A Trip to the Moon, Modern Times, Safety Last!, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Casablanca, and more, rendered through the frivolous lens of Illumination’s anodyne, elastic, rounded animation style…
…a rocket-ride to overnight stardom that is covered in a very funny News on the March-style newsreel, one of several nods to Citizen Kane…
Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, George Lucas, Universal monster movies, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, and countless other classics are lovingly celebrated throughout.
…la gran cantidad de referencias que incluye a filmes como “Ciudadano Kane”, “Casablanca” o “El día que la Tierra se detuvo”…
…lessons in movie history from Chaplin to “Citizen Kane”…
Rosebud scene from “Citizen Kane” (1941).
…referencing Citizen Kane and The Maltese Falcon in a Minions movie is such an unorthodox way of introducing children to this era…
Apart from those little pokey yellow things, the character designs remain stiff and ugly, randomly pieced together from a junk drawer full of spindly legs, barrel torsos, and huge schnozzes; although Despicable Me 3 spares younger viewers the sight of Dr. Nefario, the Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2 supporting character who looked like he was imported from the Harkonen home world in David Lynch’s Dune , it does add what appears to be a grotesque, ballooning caricature of Gerard Depardieu, as well as the sight of the Bosc-pear-inspired Silas Ramsbottom (Steve Coogan) being unceremoniously excreted down a small aperture by his toucan-faced successor at the Anti-Villain League, Valerie Da Vinci (Jenny Slate).
Homages to Safety Last!, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Jaws, A Trip to the Moon, The Mummy, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Metropolis are among the many callbacks movie fans can enjoy.
Metropolis’ Maschinenmensch…
But after watching “Minions & Monsters” make nods to “Metropolis” and “Casablanca,” I understand.
…donde se ven estatuas de la Maschinenmensch de “Metrópolis”, de Fritz Lang…
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Directed by Jack Arnold
influenced Minions & Monsters (2026)
Themes Visuals
“The Wolf Man” (1941) and “Creature from the Black Lagoon.”
Homages to Safety Last!, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Jaws, A Trip to the Moon, The Mummy, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Metropolis are among the many callbacks movie fans can enjoy.
…donde se ven estatuas de la Maschinenmensch de “Metrópolis”, de Fritz Lang, la Criatura del Lago Negro y hasta Neo, de “Matrix”…
The Blob (1958)
Directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
influenced Minions & Monsters (2026)
Plot Characters
“The Blob” was a 1958 science fiction horror film distributed by Paramount…
…including one orange bug-eyed beast that seems inspired by The Blob, the 1958 B-movie starring Steve McQueen…
…a climax that is part "The Blob"…
…with nods toward “The Blob” and “The Day the Earth Stood Still.”
…including “Dracula” (1931), “Frankenstein” (1931), “The Mummy” (1932), “The Invisible Man” (1933), “Bride of Frankenstein” (1935), “The Wolf Man” (1941)…
Homages to Safety Last!, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Jaws, A Trip to the Moon, The Mummy, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Metropolis are among the many callbacks movie fans can enjoy.
A base example of this is the presence of the cartoonishly-ugly new head of the Anti-Villain league (voiced by Jenny Slate), whose presence is limited to just one scene where she berates and fires Gru and Lucy, but even its idea of an Easter egg just reads as nasty (in the opening scene, Gru callously and clearly kills a Finding Nemo-esque clown fish with his submarine).
It’s a joke, and a meta movie reference to the competing studio Pixar’s Finding Nemo franchise (Nemo is a clownfish with a tiny malformed fin).
More irksome, they’re at the centre of a joke that takes aim at Finding Nemo — a glib bit of homage that only illustrates how far out of Pixar’s class Gru and his crew are.
Most disappointing (and disturbing) is a brief scene that, in what has to be seen as a shameful effort to bait "Finding Nemo" studio Pixar into an on-screen "war," seems to show a clownfish's fins being unceremoniously sheared off by a Minion-controlled rocket.
Modern Times (1936)
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
influenced Despicable Me 3 (2017), Minions & Monsters (2026)
Visuals
…with riffs on Charlie Chaplin films like Modern Times (1936) in a scene where the Minions travel between cogs in a giant machine…
…the Minions will clog the gears of Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times"…
Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times…
I nearly kicked my feet with glee when the Minions went through the Modern Times gears along with Charlie Chaplin.
…with explicit references to Safety Last!, Steamboat Bill Jr., Modern Times, and Citizen Kane, among others…
Kids will surely be delighted to see the likes of A Trip to the Moon, Modern Times, Safety Last!, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Casablanca, and more, rendered through the frivolous lens of Illumination’s anodyne, elastic, rounded animation style…
Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, George Lucas, Universal monster movies, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, and countless other classics are lovingly celebrated throughout.
…la gran cantidad de referencias que incluye a filmes como “Ciudadano Kane”, “Casablanca” o “El día que la Tierra se detuvo”…
It’s positively heaving with nods to trailblazers from Buster Keaton, the Lumiere brothers and Georges Melies to Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Jaws and plum-voiced newsreels.
…with shoutouts to Casablanca (dir. Michael Curtiz, 1942)…
But after watching “Minions & Monsters” make nods to “Metropolis” and “Casablanca,” I understand.
But the movie references don’t end there, with nods to Casablanca, Citizen Kane, ‘50s-era sci films and many more.
An opening montage features the Minions inserted Zelig-style into classic footage by the likes of Muybridge and the Lumiere brothers.
This Zelig-like journey through film history…
…the movie references come thick and fast – whether it’s Airplane!, The Matrix or, bizarrely, George Lucas…
…keep your eyes peeled in the upper left corner of the screen for a nod to "Airplane!"
…a Hollywood hall of fame, which celebrates films such as The Matrix and Airplane! and features the actual George Lucas in a Perspex showcase…
…the movie references come thick and fast – whether it’s Airplane!, The Matrix or, bizarrely, George Lucas…
…la Criatura del Lago Negro y hasta Neo, de “Matrix”…
Keanu Reeves in "The Matrix"…
…a Hollywood hall of fame, which celebrates films such as The Matrix and Airplane! and features the actual George Lucas in a Perspex showcase…
Homages to Safety Last!, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Jaws, A Trip to the Moon, The Mummy, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Metropolis are among the many callbacks movie fans can enjoy.
It’s positively heaving with nods to trailblazers from Buster Keaton, the Lumiere brothers and Georges Melies to Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Jaws and plum-voiced newsreels.
In many ways, “Despicable Me 2” plays a lot like an “Ice Age” or “Madagascar” sequel.
They're funny, in a Madagascar penguins or Pizza Planet little green men sort of way, one-joke bit players whose appeal was underestimated before and overestimated now, former scene swipers presently having scenes and ad campaigns handed to them.
Like the penguins of Madagascar, the Minions are destined for their own film, as an end-credits audition sequence indicates.
Dreamworks’ Madagascar and Shrek series may be creatively exhausted, but Universal proves with Despicable Me 2 that Pixar’s animators aren’t the only ones capable of top-quality sequels.
Especially smart on Coffin and Renaud’s part is the extra screen time given to the Minions, who have taken over the penguins of Madagascar and Scrat from Ice Age as the best side characters in animated film today.
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
Directed by Edwin S. Porter
influenced Minions & Monsters (2026)
Visuals
…after mostly echoing films from a far earlier era, like The Great Train Robbery and Safety Last!