Ahead of Minions & Monsters, Catch up on These Minions & Despicable Me Movies on Peacock
With Minions & Monsters debuting this week, it's time to do some prepping!
Key Takeaways
- The Minions and Despicable Me franchise has two films available on Peacock for viewers wanting to revisit the characters before Minions & Monsters releases.
- Minions (2015) exploRead More
- The Minions and Despicable Me franchise has two films available on Peacock for viewers wanting to revisit the characters before Minions & Monsters releases.
- Minions (2015) explores the origins of the Minions, showing their evolution and their partnership with villain Scarlett Overkill.
- Despicable Me 2 (2013) follows Gru’s shift to heroism as he protects the Minions from mutation threats, highlighting their ongoing humorous loyalty to questionable leaders.
With Illumination's Minions & Monsters, the studio’s third standalone Minions movie, opening exclusively in theaters on July 1, now is the time to brush up on your yellow henchman lore!
Minions & Monsters finds our favorite little troublemakers in 1920s Los Angeles, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, where new Minions James and Henry set out to make their own epic monster movie. But when they cast real monsters, things go hilariously awry.
With this week's Minions & Monsters, the Despicable Me and Minions franchise now includes seven animated feature films, five which have been directed by Pierre Coffin, who also voices the Minions. With each Minions film, audiences learn more and more about these yellow-goggled lackeys, who fall quick and hard for any baddie who bats an eyelash at them.
In case you’re behind on your Minions history, or the bad guys they like to pledge their service to, Peacock's got you covered. Head below to find out which Despicable Me and Minions movies are currently streaming on Peacock.
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Minions and Despicable Me movies now streaming on Peacock
Minions (2015)
Minions is the Minions' origin story. As the first standalone Minion-centric spin-off movie, directors Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda go all the way back to the yellow creatures as single cell organisms to show how they crawled out from the primordial muck looking for an evil prehistoric master. Though Minions is set mostly in the late 1960s, audiences get to see how they grew into the lackeys they are today, under the guidance of super-villainess Scarlett Overkill (Sandra Bullock).
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Despicable Me 2 (2013)
Set a year after the events in Despicable Me (2012), in this direct sequel, Gru (Steve Carrell) is a fully committed girl dad and a reluctant reformed super-villain working with the Anti-Villain League (AVL). When the Minions become a target for mutation, Gru has to help them and fight the bad guys, Doctor Nefario (Russell Brand) and El Macho (Benjamin Bratt). There’s no direct connection from Minions & Monsters to Despicable Me 2 outside of seeing how their past influences their continuing dopey choices as terrible, but very funny, assistants.
Watch Despicable Me 2 on Peacock now!
Check out more great animated feature films on Peacock, like The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Shrek, and Puss and Boots.
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