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Post by Calamity Panfan » Sun Jun 30, 2013 10:20 pm

Pixar's first prequel revisits the world of Monsters Inc. as they tell the story of Mike and Sully becoming friends.

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. I mean, I never really doubt Pixar's ability to make an entertaining movie, but this was really f***ing good. Though maybe that's because Aubrey Plaza voiced a character in this movie and I love Aubrey Plaza so much.
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Post by Valigarmander » Mon Jul 01, 2013 1:19 am

It was okay. Not as undeniably magical as the original Monsters Inc., but not a bad movie either.

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Post by United Nations » Mon Jul 01, 2013 10:02 am

I loved this movie! I thought it had a lot of heart in it, even being a sequel to a classic. Loved the new characters so much.

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Post by Marilink » Mon Jul 01, 2013 2:47 pm

I really loved Monsters U. I can't wait to see it again in English so I can catch all of the little jokes I missed.
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Post by Lord_Zack » Thu Jul 04, 2013 10:34 am

Okay, I know I'm a total nerd for pointing this out, but didn't the original Monsters Inc. say or at least imply that Mike and Sully were friends since kindergarten?
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Post by Calamity Panfan » Thu Jul 04, 2013 10:36 am

^ fourth grade.

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Well in the first film, uh, they actually say you’ve been jealous of my good looks since fourth grade. And in the teaser they go on and on about fifth grade. So that was something we talked about early on. We chose college because we wanted to see their relationship develop when they were adults and not just still be more or less similar to the characters we remember from the first film. And we also felt like college is so much about self-discovery and figuring out who you are.
It just felt like the perfect place to do this, but we had that line, you know, that line was out there. So we tried versions where they met young and then we kind of skipped ahead to college. And we knew we didn’t want to make Monsters Elementary. We had no interest in that. Honestly it became a thing where you sort of felt like you were missing the relationship grow, because you jumped ahead any way we sliced it.
And it was really Pete Doctor, the original director, and John Lasseter who finally kind of said to me, it’s great that you’re honoring that, but you have to do what’s right for the story. You have to do what’s right for both stories in the long run. And so we made a tough decision to just have them be in college and put that line aside. So the good thing is the only reason that line was in the first film was to just give you the feeling that these guys have known each other a long time and I think that college still does that.
So yeah, now we joke that that’s just an old monster expression, you’ve been jealous of my good looks since the fourth grade. That’s what monsters always say to each other. So, uh, so luckily I feel like when you watch the movies together, the spirit of it still works great.
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