Minions & Monsters (2026)
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
The Kernel take
Minions & Monsters posted the best reviews of any 'Minions'-titled entry (69, versus Minions' 56 in 2015) and the second-best of Pierre Coffin's six-film Despicable Me/Minions directorial run, with 77% of 30 Metacritic critics rating it positively and Generally Favorable overall reception -- yet it still opened to a $37.0M domestic weekend, a soft start for a franchise whose prior entries typically opened north of $60M, suggesting strong reviews did little to offset audience fatigue this deep into the series.
Director track record: Pierre Coffin
Minions & Monsters (70) is Pierre Coffin's best-reviewed directorial outing in the Despicable Me/Minions franchise, more than 8 points above his 61.8-point average across five films in the series.
Lead track record: Pierre Coffin
As a voice performer across the same franchise, Minions & Monsters (70) is likewise Coffin's best-reviewed credit, nearly 10 points above his 60.2-point average across six films.
Box office
Budget $85M · Box office $365.9M
The domestic run front-loaded hard out of its July 4th debut but steadied afterward, with weekend-over-weekend drops easing from -42.8% (second weekend, to $21.15M) to -35.7% (third weekend, to $13.60M), a moderating decline consistent with the film's unusually strong critical word-of-mouth partially cushioning the post-opening fall-off.