All goofy enough to delight kids who won't get the references and sophisticated enough to please cinephiles who will, which is a lovely change.

The filmmakers made this animated jolt of anarchic madness to be watched communally, in darkness, and, most importantly, in a theater.

If this seventh iteration of the Despicable Me franchise isn’t a laugh riot, it’s at least a chuckle-fest.

Minions & Monsters offers several hearty laughs, particularly when it’s tweaking the movie business, but there’s simply too much Dort and too much Goomi.