*MY FAVOURITE PREQUEL!* Monsters University | First Time Watching | (reaction/commentary/review)
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What an awesome prequel!! It was so great to get more context into how scaring works and the "art" behind doing it. It was also great to see how Mike and Sully's friendship had a rocky start. Enjoy :)
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MY FAVOURITE PREQUEL! Monsters University | First Time Watching | (reaction/commentary/review)
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For those of us with disabilities, this movie was a refreshing breath of hopefulness. Usually movies go feel-good for abled people and show someone miraculously overcoming their obstacles. This movie shows something more practical, where you live with your obstacles and find a way to live as close as possible to your dream.
"Enemies to lover- not lovers, best friends" that made my day
I don’t know why so many people don’t like this movie. It’s a great break from, “you’ll always get your dreams if you work hard enough no matter what”
A plot hole that I realized was that in the first movie Mike says him and Sully have been bestfriends since 4th grade 💀
I love the message of the movie and one we never really get, sometimes you are not good enough or you don't have enough natural talent, and that's okay; there are many other things you can do.
Dean Hardscrabble's admonition that a roar would make a child afraid of snakes cry instead of scream is a clever little reference to Boo from the original film. She was afraid of snakes - that's why Randall was the monster assigned to scare her. And when she saw Sulley roar in the simulator, she didn't scream. She cried.
"I'll just be here, listening to my tunes" and then the metal music blaring always gets me 😂
Man, you were kinda cooking with the “enemies to lovers” slip tho
It's also cool to note that the original movie ends with the company switching from harvesting screams to harvesting laughs, meaning Mike ends up being the new "scarer" (or "comedian," I guess) that goes into children's bedrooms. The times/culture changed, allowing Mike's unique talents to be appreciated.
In the first task of the Scare Games, on the team that gets disqualified is George Sanderson. He is the monster that gets 23-19d in Monsters Inc. So he gets DQd for using a “childtouch prohibit gel” and then later gets into trouble again for child toys touching him. Nice touch
"She looks so at peace."
Dean Hardscrabble was honestly quite an amazing character. She was stern, strict, and steadfast, but not prideful or snobby.
Here’s a needless fun fact. I went and counted all the scream canisters that were in the room during the final adult scare. Mike and Sully not only made enough scream to power the door from the other side to the point it exploded, they filled 118 canisters and overpowered the lights on the floor until they popped.
For Randall, I think this film shows more of a step for what would become his rivalry with Sulley, more than the start of his rivalry with Sulley. Randall is established in this movie as someone who really cares about what other people think of him. After Sulley leading to him embarrassing himself, I imagine he would have been even more motivated to prove himself and would have worked especially hard to get his scaring degree. I believe his hatred for Sulley and Mike came once he gets to Monsters Inc. Could you imagine working your tail off to get a degree and getting a job at your dream company, only to find the two people who embarrassed you in college (and were expelled before they ever got a degree) at the top of the employee ladder already, without a degree or all that extra schoolwork? I wouldn’t blame him for hating them either.
This movie gave a whole new layer to the "What about everything we ever worked for? Does that matter?" fight that they have in the Himalayas, looking how long and how hard they must have worked to get from the bottom to the top, how deeply personal for both of them was trying to get that record.
"I can't go back to jail!" 😂
Do you remember in the first movie, Randall told Mike, "Do you hear that? It's the winds of change."
This movie is SOOO underrated out of Pixar’s catalog. I know a lot of people found the college themes not fun, but I did! And the message of the film is SOOO good. That sometimes you can chase after a dream and never be able to fulfill it due to being born different, but that it is okay.
Mike and Sully did something that wa deemed impossible. Scare adults to the point of overloading the door and screams canisters. They literally put them inside a horror movie.
A detail that I think makes the Randle vs Mike & Sully feud even more deep is that I am sure after the scare games when he Randle lost, his resentment towards the two started but, the thing that I think just added fuel to the fire was that he finished University and get a job at Monsters Incorporated, only to already see Mike & Sully already on the scare floor. He would be so confused on how the two monsters that were kicked out of Uni, got on the scare floor before him