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Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Brilliant and touching

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Monsters University is a fairly made film. The story and college movie premise aren't the strongest use for it, but one thing this Movie understands is its characters. The prequel gives us a better understanding of Mike and Sulley's friendship that makes for a very entertaining repitoir between the two. (thanks to Goodman and Crystal) The film may not match up to the original but in character development it more than delivers.

We don't get a lot of prequels to animated movies. There are tons and tons of animated movies sequels out there and it's most likely that more sequels are coming, but prequels to animated movies are something you very rarely see. Now, we have one to "Monsters, Inc." known as "Monsters University". The film where we get to see Mike and Sully go to college, meet each other and how they ended up in the positions we know in the first movie. And in my opinion, I think it's pretty good. It may not be as good as say the "Toy Story" sequels or the first "Monsters" movie, but it's nowhere near as bad as "Cars 2" which is an automatic plus given to the movie. Why does it work you may ask? Well, let me tell you.Inn the world of Monstropolis, monsters not only have jobs as scarers in power plants, but also have colleges were they can learn about scaring and one of them is the famed Monsters University. A young Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) has been waiting all his life to go to the college in hopes of becoming one of the best scarer ever. While there he even bumps into his roommate a young and nerdy Randall Boggs (Steve Buscemi) and even the laid back James P. Sullivan or Suley for short (John Goodman). However, contrary to what you may think, Mike really hates Sulley's laid back attitude as he doesn't study, do his homework and even fails to bring a pencil to his first day of class. However things get messy for the two when they are kicked out of the scare program by the head of the scarer program, Dean Abigail Hardscrabble (Hellen Mirren) after they accidentally destroy a prized trophy of hers while in a fight. After being unsatisfied with the can program, Mike and Sulley then enter the scarer games with a misfit team called Oozma Kampa in hopes to get back into the scare program if they win or face expulsion if they fail. So can they help pull together the misfit team while sorting out their differences? Well, I won't say because I'll let you guys see the film for yourself to help you decide.The film's story may not be as fresh or as funny as the original "Monsters, Inc" was, but as a prequel to a fun film, I think it was pretty good. I liked seeing Mike and Sulley start off as enemies at the beginning and see them mature into the characters we know now in the first film. Not only that, I will also admit that the ending which I'm not going to spoil kind of took me by surprise and was actually quite original for Pixar quality. As for the animation, I can easily say it's once again great. I really looked seeing the characters designs improve after twelve years and seeing the colorful landscapes once again brought to life in grand and glorious detail. Even the characters were quite refreshingly different compared to the originals. I really like seeing both Mike and Sulley kind of flip roles in a way with Mike being more on top of things and Sulley being more laid back compared to the original. Even Randall was pretty funny to see in a different way with him being more geeky and shy compared to his sly and pretty nasty personality in the original. As for the new character, there also a lot of fun. I like the misfit Oozma Kampa team whom I won't talk about to much as I think you should see their personalities themselves and really liked how slightly menacing Dean Hardscrabble who was played fantastically by Hellen Mirren with her performance being top notch like always. As far as flaws, I think it was a little to predictable at times and maybe a little too rushed. The film should have slowed down scenes touch a tad so we could get more invested in some moments of the film. I think that's about it though."Monsters University" may not be as great as the first film, but as a good prequel, I think it works. It has some good story elements, great animation and some funny characters to boast which is about enough to give a good recommendation to. It's an animated prequel that actually surprisingly works, and I can happily say that I have plans for watching it in the near future.

I adored Monsters Inc, it was one of those surprise movies you go into with no expectations and are blown away by. It took years for me to get round to this due to my endless watchlist but I'm so happy I can say that it's worth of the the franchise.Charming, well written, full of laugh out loud moments and undeniably loyal to the original movie with tie-ins around every corner.I especially liked Helen Mirrens character, part monster, part bat, part centipede? I like centipedes, I wanted to be an entomologist once upon a time, obsessed over bugs, learnt all about them then learnt about these things called university, qualifications and effort and thought against it. I'll leave entomology to those with motivation, you enjoy your bugs and I'll enjoy women, movies, video games and various other fun stuff.I digress, Monsters University is a sweet heartfelt movie and makes me hope they make a final part to make a monsters trilogy. Maybe touching upon certain events that happened in this as opposed to it's sequel.Sadly I don't see this happening, I think we have more likelihood of a Princess Bride 2, Brave 2 or a movie where Zac Efron doesn't play an arrogant douche who likes to take his shirt off.

As this prequel to 'Monsters Inc.' opens Mike Wazowski, a small green monster with one giant eye, is still at elementary school; he is small and is ignored by the other monster-kids. After a school trip to Monsters Inc. he is determined to become a 'scarer'; one of the monsters who harvest scream energy by entering the human world and scaring children. To do this he studies hard to get into Monsters University. Here he crosses paths with James P. "Sully" Sullivan, a big monster from a long line of scarers… the immediately don't get along. Their animosity escalates and it isn't long before they annoy the dean and are kicked off the scarer's course. Mike can only think of one way to resolve this; he will enter the 'Scare Games'… this requires him to join a fraternity and be part of a team of six. He joins Oozma Kappa, the 'loser' house and even then they need one more person… Sully. With his team sorted he has a bet with the dean; if Oozma Kappa wins they can join the scarer class but if they fail to come first he will be expelled. They progress surprisingly well but ultimately they will have to face the scare simulator and even though Mike knows all the theory about scaring children he just isn't naturally scary.This is a fun prequel to 'Monsters Inc.'; if you haven't already watched that I'd recommend watching this one first so you don't know how it will ultimately end up. Even if you have seen the original film it doesn't spoil this too much… I'm sure most people will guess how it ends; it is a matter of how our protagonists get to that ending. The story contains lots of fun elements and entertaining characters. The protagonists develop nicely as the film progresses; this is especially true of Sully as he progresses from being a lazy and fairly arrogant character to a likable one who has learnt many lessons during the film; not all of them in the classroom. The 'Scare Games' are rather fun and provide plenty of laughs as well as some surprises as the way Oozma Kappa progresses isn't entirely obvious… the 'library test' is the most obvious example. There are some obvious morals to the film; most obviously that those who cheat are punished but that redemption can be found though hard work. As one would expect from Pixar the animation and character designs are great. The voice cast, which includes many well-known actors, does a fine job of bringing the animated monsters to life as real characters. Overall I'd certainly recommend this to fans of other Pixar fans, young and old alike, even though it isn't quite as good as the original to my mind