介绍:
Despite taking in big earnings at the Chinese box office, the 3D computer-animated comedy "Monsters University" is yet another indicator of Pixar's loss of creativity. This forced addition to the Monsters series offers nothing new, except the varying degrees of weirdness in the appearance of the monsters.
I guess the happy ending of "Monsters Inc" was an unfortunate inconvenience for the producers, forcing them to focus their limited capacity for creativity on a prequel. So, the story goes back a few years to track the life of young monster Michael "Mike" Wazowski, who dreams of becoming a scarer when he grows up.
Through continuous hard work, young Mike eventually lands himself a place as a scare major at Monsters University. There, he meets Sulley, who comes from a talented family of scarers and therefore doesn't have to work hard, relying on his natural scaring ability. Almost immediately a rivalry is formed between the starkly different duo, and that rivalry leads to both being dropped from the scare program. Their only way back into the program is to team up and win an annual scare game, but the odds are not in their favor asthe rest of their team members are not physically scary.
Sadly, the film falls into the good student-bad student, teamwork and American dream kind of cliché. Mike's dream of becoming an excellent scarer and his conflict with bad student Sulley make up the main driving force of the story. Teamwork is ultimately what helps the two partners settle their differences and become best friends. Kids may be able to get an idea of college life from the film, but for adult viewers, there is hardly anything to stop them from falling sleep. Without the animated monsters, the movie is no different from any other superficial story about college life.
Pixar's creative strength seems to have hit a bottleneck since Cars 2 and Brave; a new monster movie could have been what it needed to redeem its reputation, but "Monster University" has clearly failed to deliver this. Todd McCarthy, with Hollywood Reporter, provices the most apt description for the film, saying: Monsters University almost feels like a film made to fill a slot in a release schedule rather than something that simply had to be made for its own organic reasons.
This unnecessary addition to Monsters franchise deserve a five out of ten.
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