Maybe too much didactic (tv)

Rating: 4/10 (21 May 2016)

At least, it's not the dumb, silly violence of « cars 2 » which i have watched horrified with young nephews as it was about cars firing bullets ! This one is more peaceful, with cool characters and some really funny moments but it wasn't the extraordinary familial movie i expected ! First, like « harry potter and the goblet of fire », movies about contest are quickly boring because you have task 1, then task 2, then task 3,. It's very linear and not fit to twists Next, the movie is too much about an elitist education open to « fit » students : if you are not in the mold, you get out ! The problem is to define the mold and the movie is really depressive for that : are the bad students bad because of them or their teachers ! For sure, i didn't appreciate that this team of losers is too much caricatured (the old, the obese, the dingo) and that finally when you are cut from university, you become mop pushers ! So it's indeed a meritocracy and surely not a world when people are considered for what they are, able or not able ! In that context, Mike and Sulley and their fraternity speaks with other words but it's told so loudly, so many times that it lacks magic and fun ! Sure the animation is really well done, this monster universe is also original and wakes up the child inside us but at the end, the mix of friendship, university, tolerance, exams, self-confidence, norms, fun and competition wasn't really enjoyable for the adult I am now !