Monsters University is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed by Dan Scanlon in his feature film debut and produced by Kori Rae, with John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich as executive producers. The music for the film was composed by Randy Newman, making it his seventh collaboration with Pixar.
It is a prequel to Monsters, Inc. (2001), making it the first, and currently, only time Pixar has made a prequel film. Monsters University tells the story of two monsters, Mike and Sulley, and their time studying at college, where they start off as rivals, but slowly become best friends. John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, Bob Peterson, and John Ratzenberger reprise their roles as James P. Sullivan, Mike Wazowski, Randall Boggs, Roz, and the Abominable Snowman, respectively. Bonnie Hunt, who voiced Ms. Flint in the first film, voices Mike’s grade school teacher Ms. Karen Graves.
- Starring : Billy Crystal / John Goodman
- Genre : Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
- Country : United States
- Language : English
- Director : Dan Scanlon
- Production : Walt Disney Pictures / Pixar Animation Studios
- Distributor : B&H Film Distribution / China Film Group Corporation (CFGC) / Feelgood Entertainment / Forum Hungary / Manfer Films / Walt Disney Company Nordic / Walt Disney Studios Japan / Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / Walt Disney Studios Sony Pictures Releasing (WDSSPR) / Westec Media Limited / ABC Family / American Broadcasting Company (ABC) / BBC One / Disney Channel / Disney XD / FX Network / Freeform / Home Box Office (HBO) / Nelonen / SBS6 / SBS9 / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment / Zon Audiovisuais
Monsters University movie
Monsters University release date
- June 5, 2013 : UK (BFI Southbank)
- June 8, 2013 : USA (Seattle International Film Festival)
- June 10, 2013 : Australia (Sydney Film Festival)
- June 18, 2013 : USA (Los Angeles Film Festival)
- June 20, 2013 : Australia
- June 20, 2013 : Switzerland (German speaking region)
- June 20, 2013 : Germany
- June 20, 2013 : Israel
- June 20, 2013 : Singapore
- June 21, 2013 : Canada
- June 21, 2013 : Spain
- June 21, 2013 : India
- June 21, 2013 : USA
- June 23, 2013 : UK (Edinburgh International Film Festival)
- June 26, 2013 : Philippines
- July 6, 2013 : Japan
- July 10, 2013 : France
- July 12, 2013 : UK
- July 12, 2013 : Ireland
- July 31, 2013 : Sweden
Monsters University cast
- Billy Crystal as Mike(voice)
- John Goodman as Sullivan(voice)
- Steve Buscemi as Randy(voice)
- Helen Mirren as Dean Hardscrabble(voice)
- Peter Sohn as Squishy(voice)
- Joel Murray as Don(voice)
- Sean Hayes as Terri(voice)(as Sean P. Hayes)
- Dave Foley as Terry(voice)
- Charlie Day as Art(voice)
- Alfred Molina as Professor Knight(voice)
- Tyler Labine as Greek Council VP(voice)
- Nathan Fillion as Johnny(voice)
- Aubrey Plaza as Greek Council President(voice)
- Bobby Moynihan as Chet(voice)
- Noah Johnston as Young Mike(voice)
Disney, as the rights holder, had plans for a sequel to Monsters, Inc. since 2005. Following disagreements with Pixar, Disney tasked its Circle 7 Animation unit to make the film. An early draft of the film was developed; however, Disney’s purchase of Pixar in early 2006 led to the cancellation of Circle 7’s version of the film. A Pixar-made sequel was confirmed in 2010, and in 2011, it was confirmed that the film would instead be a prequel titled Monsters University.
Monsters University premiered on June 5, 2013 at the BFI Southbank in London, England, and was theatrically released on June 21, 2013, in the United States. It was accompanied in theaters by a short film, The Blue Umbrella, directed by Saschka Unseld. The film grossed $744 million against its estimated budget of $200 million, making it the seventh highest-grossing film of 2013. An animated short film titled Party Central, which takes place shortly after the events of Monsters University, premiered in fall 2013 before being released theatrically with Muppets Most Wanted in 2014. The film received positive reviews from the critics.
Michael “Mike” Wazowski, a young monster who is hated by all of his classmates, aspires to become a scarer – a monster who enters the human world at night to scare children and harvest their screams for energy – after visiting Monsters, Inc. – Monstropolis’ most profitable scaring company – on a school field trip. Eleven years later, Mike is now a first-year scare major at Monsters University, where he meets James P. “Sulley” Sullivan. Mike studies hard, while the privileged Sulley, coming from a family of talented scarers, relies only on his natural ability and begins to falter. As the semester progresses, Mike and Sulley attempt to join a fraternity, but only Sulley is accepted into Roar Omega Roar, the most prestigious fraternity on campus. At the semester’s final exam, a fight between the two causes them to accidentally break Dean Abigail Hardscrabble’s cherished scream canister; Hardscrabble fails them both on the spot, citing Mike’s complete lack of scariness and Sulley’s laziness, to which Roar Omega Roar promptly expels Sulley.
Wanting to prove himself, Mike enters the university’s “Scare Games” and makes a deal with Hardscrabble: she will reinstate him and his team to the scare program if they win, but Mike must leave the university if they lose. He joins a fraternity of misfits named Oozma Kappa, but they are initially denied entry to the Games for being one team member short, so Sulley joins them upon seeing the competition as his only way back into the scare program. Oozma Kappa finish last in the first challenge, but are saved from elimination when another team is disqualified for cheating. Oozma Kappa improve gradually due to Mike’s training and intricate knowledge of scaring and they advance through each following challenge, finishing second to Roar Omega Roar. In the final round, they defeat Roar Omega Roar with a decisive final scare by Mike in the simulation bedroom. However, Mike discovers that he only won because Sulley secretly rigged the machine to give Mike a maximum score.
Determined to prove that he can become a scarer, Mike breaks into the school’s door-making lab where he enters a door to the human world, but upon finding himself at a summer camp in a cabin full of children that aren’t scared of him, he is forced to flee into the woods. Meanwhile, Roar Omega Roar offers to reinstate Sulley, but instead he confesses to Hardscrabble that he cheated just as she is alerted to Mike’s break-in. Hardscrabble forbids anyone else from going through the door, but Sulley sneaks through to rescue Mike. After reconciling, they try to return, but are unable to exit after Hardscrabble deactivates the door while waiting for the authorities to arrive. Pursued by camp rangers, Mike realizes that the only way to escape is to generate enough scream energy to power the door from their side. Working together, Sulley and Mike terrify the camp rangers and generate an overwhelming amount of scream energy, returning to the lab seconds before the device overloads and explodes in front of a surprised Hardscrabble.
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