Minions & Monsters

The little Minion character in this movie short is a newbie to a D&D type game. While playing the game with his friends, they get transported into a real world D&D type adventure where at first his seasoned gamer friends with their powerful weapons have to keep saving the little Minion from the monsters until finally the little Minion, with his magical renaissance lute like instrument, ends up saving his seasoned gamer friends from the biggest most fierce monster of all (the coolest looking dragon Ive ever seen in any animated adventure anywhere) Very creative, imaginative, energetic, fast paced excitement, animation, sound, and music complete with time period costumes on the Minions. I absolutely loved it and Im not even a gamer! Brilliantly written and directed. Definitely worth watching. So enjoyable.

The Minions are playing Minions & Monsters, a fantasy role-playing boardgame similar to Dungeons & Dragons. Three of them are expert players with devastating weapons. The newbie player only has a crudely made guitar.

This is a good Minions short although it could be much better. The guitar-playing should force the monsters to dance. That should be its special powers. As he gains game experience, it becomes harder and harder to ignore the music with bigger and bigger dances. That's hook which is missing from this. The whole thing could turn into a big dance number. It would be sillier and more fun.