Minions & Monsters

The seventh film in a Despicable Me franchise that has earned more than $6 billion at the global box office, Minions & Monsters sends the yellow creatures back to Hollywood's classic monster-movie era, a setting that gives the animators a genuinely different visual palette to play with. The voice cast is unexpectedly serious for a Minions movie: Christoph Waltz, Jeff Bridges, and Jesse Eisenberg join Pierre Coffin's usual gibberish. It was originally slated for 2027 and got moved up to open right at the summer's midpoint on July 1. Expect competent, familiar chaos rather than a reinvention.