Friday, 31 January 2014

Case Study- Monsters University

Monsters University is the prequel to Disney Pixars Monsters Inc, released in 2001. Monsters University was released on June 5th in London and was directed by Dan Scanlon. 

 Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan are an inseparable pair, but that wasn't always the case. From the moment these two mismatched monsters met they couldn't stand each other. Monsters University unlocks the door to how Mike and Sulley overcame their differences and became the best of friends. 



Reviews 
Essentially this amounts to an underdog tale, although what the plot may lack in innovative fizz, it makes up for with charm and quiet wisdom. One night, Mike leads his Oozma Kappa friends on a covert visit to the Monsters, Inc. factory, so he can explain to them the secret of the professional scarers’ success.
“Do you see what they all have in common?” he asks. “Nothing,” shrugs Sully. “Exactly,” Mike says with a smile. When considering Pixar’s body of work, you can’t help but conclude the same thing.
-Robbie Collin, Telegraph 
Pixar’s 2001 animated gem Monsters, Inc was so hilariously inventive and original that it’s hardly surprising that this belated prequel can’t quite recapture its predecessor’s magic, yet Monsters University is still packed with witty dialogue, sly visual gags and boisterous action.

 Monsters University is the prequel to Monsters Inc, therefore 
-Jason Best, Movie Talk 
In plot terms it's familiar campus comedy material about thwarted ambition, rejection and final success due to losers becoming winners through burying personal pride and working as a team. There are clever and witty moments and, both visually (an aristocratic bat-winged creature with her hair swept up) and vocally (a visiting professor from Queen Elizabeth's College, London), Helen Mirren makes a big impression as the imperious Dean Hardscrabble. But there's a rather tired, willed atmosphere hanging over it.
-Phillip French, The Observer
Origins
Monsters University is the prequel to Monsters Inc. Monsters Inc is a computer-animated comedy film written by Jack W. Bunting, Jill Culton, Peter Docter, Ralph Eggleston, Dan Gerson, Jeff Pidgeon, Rhett Reese, Jonathan Roberts, and Andrew Stanton. It's said that the original idea for the screenplay was based on the childhood experiences of one of the Pixar crew, who had a bunch of toy monster figurines as a child. The original screenplay was about a man who is an advertising designer and leads a very boring life. He is afraid to take risks and feels that his career is at a dead end. When his mother cleans out the attic and sends him his box of toy monsters, who were also his childhood Imaginary friends, the monsters -- Mike, Sulley and Randall -- once again become his imaginary friends and inspire him to regain the creativity and sense of adventure he had as a boy. Obviously, the original idea went through a lot of revisions before it became the movie on the screen.

 Finance 

 Monsters University earned $268,492,764 in North America, and $475,066,843 elsewhere, summing up to a worldwide total of $743,559,607. It is the fifty-fourth highest grossing film, the fourth highest-grossing 2013 film, the third highest-grossing Pixar film, and the eleventh highest-grossing animated film. The film earned $136.9 million worldwide on its opening weekend. Disney declined to provide a budget for the film; Entertainment Weekly speculated that it was higher than that of Brave ($185 million), mainly because of the high cost of John Goodman and Billy Crystal reprising their roles. Shockya and EOnline reported the budget to be $200 million—on par with previous Pixar films.

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