The $3 Billion Hit Myth Continues… ‘Minions & Monsters’ Opens on the 15th

A yellow rebellion that swept through 1920s Hollywood, rewriting screen history

The ‘Minions’ series, which has built up an astonishing $2 billion worldwide box-office cumulative haul (about 346 billion won), will take over domestic theaters on the 15th with its third masterpiece, ‘Minions & Monsters’. Analysts say their return—after cementing themselves as icons of global pop culture beyond the simple category of animated films—will shake up the lineup of the fall movie season.

The engine driving this new film’s narrative is the long-hidden new faces, ‘James’, ‘Henry’, and ‘Ed’. Defying the instincts of a species that summons the best villain as its boss, the three misfit friends—captivated only by the perfect story and lingering on the fringes of the pack—crash-land in the ‘Hollywood’ golden age of the 1920s and drop anchor for their massive ambition to make movies.

During a time when intuitive slapstick comedy that broke down the language barrier dominated the film industry, the instincts of ‘Minions’ that put body before words were cinematic language—right there, perfectly. They quickly surged to become the stars of the silent-film era, kicking off a bold challenge to move beyond the title of star actors and grab the megaphone themselves.

The ‘Minions’ charm that never loses its signature upbeat high notes even in the face of any life-or-death crisis has been crafted even more precisely in this installment. The ‘Homage’ sequence, which reinterprets the aesthetics of masters who pioneered early Hollywood film history—such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton—through the gaze of the yellow troublemakers, is the key highlight that will captivate both critics and audiences.

Above all, ‘James’’s stubborn resolve in the face of an insurmountable barrier and the solidarity of friends who quietly hold him up leave a deep streak of pathos. The director of the film, ‘Pierre Coffin’, said, “The greatest value that runs through the work is ‘friendship’,” and “We wanted to weave a powerful message—if you trust and lean on each other, no journey through any harsh dream is something to be afraid of—into the romance of the era,” delivering his remarks on the direction.