Cheated

Rating: 7/10 (16 October 2013)

There was a time when whichever film Pixar made, it never failed to impress me. That time has sadly passed. Cars was the first disappointment. Cars 2 just sucked. Luckily these were the exceptions. Toy Story 3, WALL-E & Brave were all excellent! The problem with Monster U is that it's just a plain and simple highschool movie, but with monsters (duh!). So a real cookie cutter story. The animation is gorgeous but it has gotten to a point where cartoon-like characters look as good as they are ever going to look if you don't want them to look photo-realistic. Great for kids I guess, but adults do make up a large part of the Pixar audience and story wise I feel a bit cheated...