Monsters University

For as long as he can remember, Mike Wazowski has dreamed of being the top scarer - a monster who creeps into children's rooms at night in order to elicit screams from them to power the monster world. He's worked hard since day one to fulfill his dream. He finally gets the chance of a lifetime by being accepted into Monsters University, the top scaring school for monsters. As he settles in to his new classes, he meets a big, blue, furry monster named Sulley. Sulley arrives at Monsters University hoping to live up to his family's name in the scarer business. The two college freshmen butt heads at first, as Sulley fits in with the 'cool' monsters, and Mike fits in with the misfits. As the year passes, they each have their problems: Sulley feels he doesn't have to study due to his family name and natural scariness, and Mike is told by the dean that he doesn't belong in the School of Scarers because he's not scary enough. As a result they are thrown out of the school until they see a shot at redemption - The Scare Games. To compete in the Games they must join a fraternity and build up a team that can take on the other fraternities in the Games. Unfortunately the only fraternity that will take them in is the Oozma Kappa, a fraternity of misfit monsters who seem less likely than Mike Wazowski to succeed in their goal of being a scarer. In a desperate attempt to help them out, Mike makes a wager with the dean: if they win the Games, they can be let back into Monsters University. If they lose, their whole team will be thrown out of the school. Mike, Sulley, and the rest of Oozma Kappa must work together if they have any chance of winning the Games and making it back into the school.

I loved Monster's, Inc. as a kid, it was (and still is today) one of my favorite Pixar movies. When I first heard that a sequel was being made I was surprised; I felt that the ending of Monster's, Inc. was a great ending and didn't need a sequel. After I heard that it was going to be a prequel, and not an actual sequel, I felt a bit better; I thought it would be interesting to see Mike Wazowski and James P. "Sulley" Sullivan as college students. I was right, the end result was fantastic. It was a joy to enter the world of monsters again. Monsters University is just as wonderful as Monster's, Inc. was about 12 years ago (hard to believe it's been that long). Go see it if and when you have the chance.