Not Classic Pixar, But Good for Kids

Rating: 6/10 (28 June 2013)

"Monsters University" won't go down as a Pixar classic, but it's cute and diverting enough. Actually, I wasn't that big a fan of "Monsters, Inc.," so maybe I wasn't the target audience for this in the first place.
Billy Crystal and John Goodman return as the voices of Mike and Sully, and this origins story explains how they meet, first hate each other, and then end up as the scaring duo at the center of the earlier film. Of the new characters, Helen Mirren makes the biggest impression as the dragon lady dean of the college, though I couldn't place her voice and had to wait until the end credits to see who it was.
My one complaint with the film is that it goes on too long, long past the point where it feels like the story should be resolving itself. But this movie will always have a special place in my heart because it's the first movie I took my four-year-old boy to.
Grade: B