The latest movie from Illumination Studios and the Despicable Me franchise takes place in 1927, and follows the Minions as they stumble upon Hollywood and become major film stars. Yes, really! Their journey to the top of tinseltown is a pure delight, and its rapid pacing and joke-a-minute structure is in the vein of the classic silent comedies that provided the very foundation of cinema. It's also jam packed with delightful nods to film history.
From the jump, Minions & Monsters shows it is firmly rooted in film history, as the opening titles are a montage of minions interacting with classic early silent films, including the work of Eadweard Muybridge, George Méliès and the Lumière brothers. The Minions gallop on a horse in The Horse in Motion (1878) or run alongside a dog in Dog Running (1887). They also trick a gardner in L’Arroseur Arrosé (1895), and leave a long day of work in Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895). That’s not all: the minions are at the train station for Train Pulling Into a Station (1896), and in perhaps the most famous silent movie, A Trip to the Moon (1902), one of the minions becomes the moon, and the shuttle lands right in his eye, just as Méliès intended.
E.T., Kirk Douglas, and the rest of a movie museum
That’s not all you can find in the museum: it also has statues of Orson Welles, Bruce Lee, and Alfred Hitchcock, the latter surrounded by birds in a nod to The Birds (1963). There’s even a living, talking George Lucas, standing in a display case (voiced by Lucas himself).
—Courtesy of Illumination and Universal PicturesA familiar sorcerer
During their journey to find a new leader, they come across a familiar looking sorcerer, whose beard, outfit, and even home will be familiar to fans of Disney’s Fantasia (1940).
Buster Keaton x2
The Minions wind up on the front of the train as they careen from one street to the next, referencing Buster Keaton’s The General (1927). There’s another Keaton movie reference just moments later, when the minions pass a man whose house falls on him—though he escapes intact, just like Keaton did in his film Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928).
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Play it Again
Though Orson Welles and Casablanca were referenced in the museum, they get a second dose later in the film. For Casablanca, a movie studio executive asks Sam, a piano player, to “play it again,” and he starts playing the theme from Casablanca, in a nod to one of the film’s most famous scenes. And Welles gets a second reference when the opening scene of his film Citizen Kane (1941) gets a very funny shot-for-shot remake in Minions and Monsters.
A party with elephants
The Minions go to an exceptionally elaborate Hollywood party featuring loud music, frantic dancing—and a pair of elephants, referencing the Damien Chazelle movie Babylon (2022), the newest and perhaps the most surprising movie that Minions and Monsters references.
Posters galore
There are lots of film posters throughout Hollywood in Minions & Monsters. While some are fake movies, some are clear tributes to movies like The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (1966) and It Came From Outer Space (1953).
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A robot with meaning
A potential leader for the minions is Dort (Jesse Eisenberg), a friendly and surprisingly strong robot. The name probably sounds familiar, as the humanoid in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) is named Gort.
It’s in the music
While the film has a great original score from John Powell, Minions & Monsters also includes several musical references, including a song from The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), another film about a love of cinema. There’s the instrumental from “Hooray for Hollywood,” from Hollywood Hotel (1937)—and not Guys and Dolls (1955), like The Simpsons would have you believe. And there’s the song “The Gold Diggers’ Song (We’re in the Money)” from the musical Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933).
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