Minions & Monsters 4K review
Sep 08, 2026- Permalink
Pierre Coffin’s Minion & Monsters is the third film in the Minions prequel series, the seventh in the Despicable Me franchise, and the first one to have an ampersand in the title. It’s become a comfort food franchise in a way and the Minions are perfect stars: cute, subversive and highly marketable. This story is led by a new trio of Minions – James, Henry and Ed – who, like all Minions, search for a villain to serve when they stumble across a silent movie production. The director, Max (Christoph Waltz),. makes them stars, but when talkies hit, their days are over. James is a creative Minion and with the support of Henry and Ed he dreams up a monster movie. When they summon a real monster, Goomi (Trey Parker), it looks like he’ll help them. Or does he have other plans? The voice cast also includes Allison Janney, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeff Bridges, Zoey Deutch, Bobby Moynihan, and Phil LaMarr, while Coffin voices all the Minions. Universal has now released Minions & Monsters on 4K and I had a chance to take a look.
The 2160p HEVC / H.265 encoded upscaled 4K digital transfer with Dolby Vision and HDR10 is presented in a 2.39:1 aspect ratio. The computer animation has great detail from the characters to the backgrounds. The colour palette ranges from bright primaries to more muted tones. Black levels are nice and deep without any loss of detail in darker moments. The image is clean without any compression artifacts and the footage from the old movie footage inside the story has added film grain and scratches to complete the feeling.
On the audio side of things, we get an English Dolby Atmos soundtrack that folds back to Dolby TrueHD 7.1 as well as Spanish and French Dolby Digital Plus 7.1 tracks and an English Dolby Digital 2.0 audio descriptive track. Subtitles are available for English SDH, French and Spanish. The Atmos soundtrack uses the heights well to expand the soundscape, with the surrounds already do a good job of placing us inside the zany action. The low frequency effects give additional weight to action and monsters, while the score is powerful without taking away from anything else. Dialogue is clear in the mix.
The Minions & Monsters 4K comes with a Blu-ray copy and a digital code, though once again there’s no code for the Canadian release. There’s a nice selection of extras. In Minions Take on Hollywood, the artists at Illumination discuss creating the Old Hollywood setting. We get some behind-the-scenes looks at casting and sound, as well as tutorials on how to make monster slime, create a flipbook, and draw the characters.
The Minions & Monsters 4K has some fun elements we haven’t seen from previous Minions outings. Combined with excellent audio and video and some nice extras, fans of the franchise will enjoy adding this to their collection.