Famous songs will tell you “the most wonderful time of the year” is the holiday season, but we disagree. No, the most wonderful time of the year is the summer because it means summer movies . Oh, sure. The summer movie season is kind of all year round these days , but studios still generally hold their biggest and best crowd pleasers for when the kids are home from school, and this year is no different. Below, we’ve dug through the mountain of movies coming to theaters from now through the end of August and ranked the 25 genre films we are most excited to see. Can you guess number one without looking? Probably . Here’s the list. 25. Minions and Monsters (July 1) As someone born in the 1980s, I’ve never been excited for any movie featuring Minions. But this new film somehow speaks not just to fans of the characters, but to me as well. It’s a prequel set in the 1920s as the Minions find themselves becoming movie stars in classic Hollywood. Lots of Charlie Chaplin jokes. Lots of Buster Keaton jokes.…