The prequel to 'Monsters, Inc', when Mike and Sully met.

Rating: Null/10 (5 December 2013)

Of course the "monsters" and their society live in an alternate universe, one that can step into ours only through the magic doors that lead to bedrooms. So we can't really discuss their existence in the same terms we understand in our own world. But if you tried, I suppose it would be accurate to say this story takes place when the little monsters are out of high school and entering college.
This is not your normal college, although it and its campus look like almost any other American college. (The animation is superb, my wife commented particularly on how real the bus looked.) This college is called 'Monsters University' and among other curricula is to be trained as a scary monster, one who could eventually work as a monster visiting the bedrooms of children at night, to scare them and generate power to run their society, as we saw them doing in 'Monsters, Inc'.
But Mike just isn't very scary-looking, and try as he might, he has a hard time acting scary. Sully doesn't have that problem, but he is a slacker, he doesn't want to stick with the curriculum, he thinks he has it made and can cruise by. So both Mike and Sully, for different reasons, are on the verge of being kicked out, their only salvation is to win the "scare games" with a motley band of rejects. If they can win the series of competitions then they can stay.
Of course we know their fate, because they did become very successful 'scarers', but this movie shows us how they got to that point.
Two of the best in the business, Billy Crystal is back as the voice of Mike and John Goodman as the voice of Sully. Plus many other fine, experienced actors for most of the other voices. Overall a very entertaining animated movie.