Minions & Monsters: Almost overwhelming

Minions & Monsters (2026) • View trailer3.5 stars (out of five); rated PG, for animated violent action and rude/macabre humorAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 7.5.26Minions features always have felt less like a coherent film, and more like a randomly assorted collection of sight gags, but this one is particularly scattershot. (It’s no accident that the Minions work best in cartoon shorts.) Although the slyly duplicitous Goomi (the little green guy) has promised Minions James,Henry and Ed that they'll find their desired monsters in a long-abandoned island cave,getting there proves ... a bit hazardous.On top of which, contrary to expectations raised by its title, the crucial monsters don’t appear until way past the halfway point.Prior to that, writers Pierre Coffin and Brian Lynch have fun dumping the little yellow troublemakers into silent-era Hollywood, where they skewer — or reference — every iconic moment made famous by the likes of…