Harmless for little children, meh for other audiences

Rating: 6/10 (21 August 2016)

With some rather low expectations, I came into Monsters University and got pretty much what I expected to experience. The messages tend to fly around like a suspicious Dean Hardscrabble and, given how mixed they are, all muck up the consistency of the plot. That's without mentioning the ridiculous, juvenile jokes (which, thank goodness, aren't crude). The best thing you can say about the story, though, is that at least it answers some questions we had about the world of its sequel, such as where doors come from. The personalities of a decent amount of "introduced" characters, especially Randall, seem awkward as we have no idea how such characters changed from University to Inc. It is absolutely no surprise, given that it is Pixar, that the animation is gloriously colorful and fitting to a universe of monsters, both too-silly-to-take-seriously monsters and if-I-see-this-I-will-soil-myself monsters. I would absolutely recommend this to children up to the second grade, as I mentioned in the title, but for the rest of you, give it some thought unless you only watch movies to make the former happy.