Director – Pierre Coffin, Patrick Delage – 2026 – US, France – Cert. PG – 90m
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How two Minions named Henry and James made their indelible mark in 1920s Hollywood – plays in the Annecy International Animation Festival 2026 which runs from Sunday, 21st June to Saturday 27th June, then out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 1st
It’s clear from its opening frames that this new Minions movie is going to be something a little bit different. It opens with the present day Universal Pictures logo which then turns into a montage of the same Studio’s logos going right back to the 1920s. After that, there’s a montage of Minions appearing in seminal moments of early movie history – leaving the factory with workers or catching a train at the railway station in the Lumière Brothers films, appearing in the queue for the rocket and as the face of the moon in A Trip to the Moon, (Georges Méliès, 1902).
Next, an enthusiastic guide (voice: Alison Janney) is showing a party of bored tourists round a Universal Studios museum dedicated to the history of Hollywood. After even the spectacle of George Lucas (voice: himself) in a glass case (make that imprisoned in a glass case) fails to excite them, she is astonished to discover that, approaching another exhibit, none of them have heard of Minion movie pioneers James and Henry.… Read the rest