i've always LOOOOOVED Monsters' Inc so when i found out that there was a prequel, i was so happy! :D immediately made Nick promise to watch it with me, quite some time ago.
however i was a teensy bit sad, because this movie wouldn't have Boo who's my all time favorite character in Monsters Inc :( she's so absolutely adorable and funny even though she couldn't speak in the movie except for 'kitty' and 'mike vazaoski' and of course her signature phrase, 'BOO!'
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| my favorite scene of her! sooooo cute! |
a few of her funny moments in the movie, hehe. she's just too cute to be true!
but anyway, back to Monsters University! i went into the movie without knowing the storyline, but i enjoyed every moment of it. even though the plot is really simple, i thought that it was executed well and it had cute elements in it which i absolutely love ^^
SPOILERS AHEAD! (a little)
the movie started off with (a very cute) baby mike! his voice was high pitched, he had retainers and he was so small compared to all his other monster classmates! it was a little sad though, because they outcasted him due to his size.
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| when they arrived for their class excursion to the Scream Factory |
after this, it gets fast forwarded to him entering university, where he meets his and Sully's future nemesis, Randall, who was also his room mate. however, Randall keeps wanting to be with the 'cool kids' while Mike just wants to excel in his studies.
a brawl between him and Sully during a class gets them kicked out of the scare program cos they broke the dean's 'souvenir from decades of scaring'.
eventually, Mike made a deal that if he could win the Scare Games, they were to be admitted back into the program. however, no one wanted to be a team with them, so they ended up with the Oozma Kappa fraternity!
they are a bunch of misfit monsters who were 'uncool' to the rest of the university students, and were also kicked out of the Scare program. thus this team was obviously deemed to be the first one to get kicked out of the Scare Games! they almost got eliminated but because another group cheated, they survived through and got through the rest of the stages too! :)
Mike was the one who taught them everything he knew, so that they were able to excel in the Games despite being the underdog. however, he was not scary enough and Sully knew it.
it was the final round between them and the 'obvious winners' of the Games. and this was the round where the animosity between Sully and Randall surfaced! they were competing against each other in separate scare simulators and because Sully roared super loudly, Randall fell from his hiding spot onto a heart-shaped print rug which caused his skin to take that print as well and he didn't quite scare the kid and scored a low point for the 'cool kids'. This made him not want to lose to Sully ever again!
ultimately, Mike scored a full score and OK won the championships! however, it was soon discovered by Mike that Sully had tampered with the simulator so that he could get a full score without much efforts at all. the entire OK team was disappointed in Sully too, and Mike was furious that Sully did not believe in him.
he stormed up to the lab where the students engineered doors to kids' rooms, and entered hastily. he tried to scare, but to no avail! alas, it was a camp dorm and there were at least a dozen kids in bunks! they all started moving towards him and then Mike escaped! Sully came through the door and found Mike. they started talking about their feelings and then ran away because humans were approaching.
on the other side, the dean had turned off the power to the door! but quick thinking Mike knew that if they could generate enough energy on their side, they could power up the door to return. so they began a plan to get the adults to scream enough and it worked! albeit too much because all the canisters were filled and some overfilled and exploded. they managed to return but got expelled :(
though this, the dean felt that they were special monsters.
and the both of them went on to working at Monsters Inc which leads to the movie! they worked as mail men, cafeteria helpers, cleaners etc. eventually, Sully became a scarer and Mike remains as his coach and they both remained best friends :)
the movie tells a tale of remaining true to yourselves, and to pursue what you want the most.
after the movie, we went to catch another one:
starring Brad Pitt, this was quite a typical zombie movie i guess?
my friend commented (on fb and he also told me on WA) that this movie was like playing L4D, what with the same types of weapons and also the way the movie progressed!
i didn't think anything much about the movie because it was so similar to what i've seen before previously! there isn't much storyline to this movie as well so.. i've got nothing much to say about it already.
if you like action and zombie films, then obviously you should watch it. but if you care for the storyline in movies, please do not watch it. there's isn't much storyline to watch for. the ending wasn't really great either (so you inject lethal viruses into humans as vaccines? wouldn't the people fall ill and die?)
Brad Pitt mentioned "This isn't the end. Not even close."
i have no idea why he said that haha. cos besides that phrase, it didn't seem to me that there was going to be any sequel..
oh there was one hilarious scene in the show though. after injecting himself with some lethal virus, Brad Pitt walked coolly past all the zombies who liked to make weird noises like chattering their teeth ALOT, and suddenly switched over to filming an advertorial.
seriously.
he headed over to a Pepsi vending machine and grabbed a can of Pepsi, drank it, and went 'ahhh'. omg it was totally funny because before he went 'ahhh' me and Nick already made that sound haha it was super dumb.
okay well that's all i have to say about the movies i caught!
is Man of Steel any good to watch by the way? please tell me!
