Directed By: Dan Scanlon
Starring: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Helen Mirren, Steve Buscemi
Rating: G
Run Time: 1 hour, 44 minutes
Synopsis: During a field-trip to the Monsters, Inc. factory, a young Mike Wazowski is inspired to go to Monsters University to learn to become a Scarer. When Mike finally arrives to his dream school, he immediately bumps heads with a fellow Scaring major named James Sullivan, who comes from a family of scarers, whereas Mike has to work hard at it. When their feud draws the ire of Dean Hardscrabble (Mirren), who boots them from the School of Scaring, Mike and Sulley must team up and join the outcast fraternity Oozma Kappa to take part in the Scaring Games with hopes of winning...and getting back into the school they so desperately want to be in.
REVIEW
Andrew:
Hello readers! We’ve been a little quiet lately on the blog and for that we
apologize, but it’s not that we haven’t been seeing movies! Both Sarah and I
have been pretty busy at work this week, what with Sarah working at not one but
two Ann Taylor stores at the moment,
and I’ve been working overtime to prepare for tonight’s NBA Draft on ESPN. (In
case you want to know, if you watch the draft tonight at 7pm, all the highlight
packages for players from Big Ten and Big East schools were my handiwork.)
All that said, Sarah and I did hit up the local AMC last Friday night to catch the latest
Disney/Pixar film, Monsters University, the prequel to 2001’s popular Monsters,
Inc.
Sarah:
It’s been a long time since Monsters, Inc. came out! What took
them so long?
A: It’s
definitely been a long time. For Monsters University, Billy Crystal
and John Goodman reprise their voice-acting roles as Mike Wazowski and James P.
“Sulley” Sullivan. As a prequel the new film details how Mike and Sulley came
to meet at college and how they became the “Scarers” that they became.
So Sarah, you’re actually a bigger fan of Monsters,
Inc. than I am, so I want to get your take on this one first.
S: I am a big fan of Monsters, Inc. It was the
very first movie that my parents and I took my little sister to see in
theatres, so it was big moment in her life and in mine! It was her first movie!
Her introduction to the wonderful world of movies! So that one holds a soft
spot in my heart.
