Draft:Minions & Monsters
2021 Illumination short film
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Minions & Monsters is an American animated comedy short film directed by Chloë Lesueur and Jed Diffenderfer, written by Diffenderfer, and produced by Chris Meledandri and Brett Hoffman with director Chris Renaud as executive producer. Produced by Illumination, it stars Pierre Coffin as the Minions as the short follows a small rookie Minion, Val, playing a tabletop role-playing game with the other minions on a quest to get the crown from a horde of monsters.
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Jed Diffenderfer
- Chris Meledandri
- Brett Hoffman
| Minions & Monsters | |
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| Directed by | Chloë Lesueur Jed Diffenderfer |
| Written by | Jed Diffenderfer |
| Produced by |
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| Starring | Pierre Coffin |
| Edited by | Jamie Boulton |
| Music by | Tom Howe |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release dates |
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Running time | 3 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
It was aired on NBC in June 11, 2021[1] and released on September 2022 for the DVD release of Minions: The Rise of Gru as a mini-movie with Post Modern Minion.[2]
Plot
The mini-movie begins with four Minions playing a D&D game in Gru’s basement. A small Bob-like Minion, Val, comes in for Laundry day when he noticed his buddies playing. Eager to join, the game master, an Otto-sized minion, Arnie, cast him the role as the Bard. He then starts the game for the Minions to go on a quest to get a crown at a castle crawling with classic fantasy monsters. Val struggles to try and level up by defeating them but each of his buddies are getting in his way. Jonny, a tall minion who was cast as an elf archer, shoots goblins to level up his bow, Alan, a one-eyed minion who was cast as beast warrior and killing lizard monsters with his hammer, and Hank, another one-eyed minion who was cast as a wizard while killing yeti monsters with his wand. When reaching to the castle and defeating more monsters to level up, Jonny, Alan, and Hank were powerless by a large dragon monster with tentacles. Val discovers his weapon being his guitar that when tuned to the right cords, he managed to control the movement of the monster by his music. Playing Hocus Pocus by Focus, Val managed to slay the final boss, level up to the max, and win the crown of the game.
Cast
- Pierre Coffin as the Minions
Production
This was the last mini-movie to be produced under Illumination Mac Guff before the studio changed its name to Illumination Studios Paris after the release of Sing 2 (2021). The name of the short was also used in the 2026 film with a different plot and setting.[3]
Music
Early Man composer Tom Howe provided the score for the short film.
Release
The short was later released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 6, 2022 with Post Modern Minion.[2]
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