Minions Bring Anarchic Nostalgia to Hollywood Hills

Deadline’s review finds Minions & Monsters a fast, anarchic slapstick that rattles through Hollywood history, following the Minions from ancient mischief to 1920s cinema via a tour-guide narrator, a playful demon, and a new robot boss. Packed with meta‑film gags, references to The Matrix and News on the March, and the infectious Minionese, it delivers kinetic laughs and chaotic energy in a 1h29m PG romp, even as the plot leaps between eras and self‑advertises as a film within a film.