Too cool for school
Monsters University brings us back in time to witness the birth of Mike and Sulley’s bromance.
Mention Pixar’s beloved movie
Monsters, Inc. and a few things are bound to come to mind: an endless conveyor belt of coloured doors, the wacky yet wonderful friendship between James P. “Sulley” Sullivan and Mike Wazowski, and of course, the irresistibly wide-eyed Boo (and her adorably unintelligible lispings).
But back before Sulley and Mike became best friends and Monsters, inc.’s top scaring team, they were just a couple of young college monsters, with dreams of making it big as Scarers… and that is where Pixar Animation Studios takes us with its latest computer-animated offering, Monsters
University ( MU). A prequel to the critically- and commercially-successful Monsters, Inc., which came out in 2001, MU introduces us to a whole new aspect of Monstropolis: university life. Within the gorgeously-realised gothic campus, it is all about classes, frat parties and university games, with a monster twist, of course.
And as it turns out, Mike and Sulley weren’t always the best buds they are in
Monsters, Inc.; Mike is a bookish nerd while Sulley is a self-important jock. How the two put their differences aside and end up becoming inseparable forms the core story of MU.
Back to voice the lead characters are Billy Crystal as Mike and John Goodman as Sulley, whose hilarious back-and-forths provided some of the most memorableorable scenes in the first movie. Joining them to bring the variousous monsters to life is a whole slew of famous actors, including oscar-winner Helen Mirren, Alfred Molina, nathan Fillion, Charlie Day and Sean Hayes. taking over the reins from Monsters,
Inc. director Pete Docter is Dan Scanlon, for whom this is the first full-length Pixar feature. With the studio’s reputation for producing stellar animated films ( Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Up, to name just a few), and the first movie’s massive fan base, one imagines there is a lot of pressure on him to deliver.
Speaking during a recent interview at Pixar’s headquarters in