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| Year of first release: 2013 | |
| Director: Dan Scanlon | |
| Actors (Voices): Billy Crystal (This is Spinal Tap), John Goodman (The Big Lebowski), Steve Buscemi (Armageddon) | |
| Country: USA | |
| Genre: Animation, Comedy | |
| Conditions of visioning: 14.11.2013, HD VOD, Home cinema | |
| Synopsis: Mike (Crystal) has always wanted to become a scarer. He enters Monsters University and meets his future best friend Sullivan (Goodman). | |
| Review: It is nice to meet again the characters we loved in Monsters Inc: Mike, Sullivan and Randy, plus a large number of new monsters all more colorful and perculiar one than the other. The big question was: would Pixal manage to come up with an interesting story for this prequel of a huge hit amongs kids? First the idea to do a prequel is great in this context, and we get to see how Mike met Sullivan. Then they waited twelve years to produce this second movie, so they had plenty of time to mature ideas and maybe try to follow their audience which has also aged. So in general I found the story pretty good. The Computer Generated Images are at the level of what is done nowadays but don't intend to be photorealist because they describe a fantasy world (unlike for example in Rango that I have seen recently). We are getting used to good CGIs nowadays and the ones in Monsters University look good. I love in particular the animation of the five-eyed character Squishy that conveys a lot of emotions. It is interestng to notice that the faces of the monsters were designed to partially ressemble the ones of the actors giving them voices (look at a picture of Peter Sohn against Squishy to understand what I mean). Another success for Pixel. |
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Rating: 7 /10
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Friday, November 15, 2013
Monsters University (2013)
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I just watched the movie. Quite fun but not much team preparation, while the final idea is that a team works better than each one alone, so that I found the story without a goal. The side characters are not developped and could have been more developped as some of them seem very promising. I do not know the Monsters Inc, so I cannot judge of that other one. But indeed the characters seem very nice and I would like to know them a bit more. My rating is 5/10.
ReplyDeleteIn my DVD, there is also an animation short cut called Blue umbrella, by Saschka Unseld. Nice romantic story between two umbrella and their environment that helps this romance. Very nice.
ReplyDeleteI can recommend you to watch Monsters Inc. You would appreciate better Monsters University in retrospect because of the many references done between the two movies.
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