Every Movie Reference in ‘Minions & Monsters’

Here, we break down every movie reference in Minions & Monsters.

From the jump, Minions & Monsters shows it is firmly rooted in film history, as the opening titles are a montage of minions interacting with classic early silent films, including the work of Eadweard Muybridge, George Méliès and the Lumière brothers. The Minions gallop on a horse in The Horse in Motion (1878) or run alongside a dog in Dog Running (1887). They also trick a gardner in L’Arroseur Arrosé (1895), and leave a long day of work in Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895). That’s not all: the minions are at the train station for Train Pulling Into a Station (1896), and in perhaps the most famous silent movie, A Trip to the Moon (1902), one of the minions becomes the moon, and the shuttle lands right in his eye, just as Méliès intended.