Great prequel but more for adults

Rating: 8/10 (7 January 2017)

When I heard that a prequel to Monsters -one of my favorite animation movies ever- was coming to the screens, I frowned. I thought it was a matter of milking the cow for commercial purposes. I was wrong.
Monsters University is a great prequel and a great animated movie. The script develops the characters in ways that make sense if you have watched the first movie, as one comes to understand why these characters become best pals despite being so different. If you haven't watched the first movie, this movie is still good on its own.
I really like this movie, almost as much as the first, but for different reasons. Monsters Inc was very emotive, tender, very charming, very magical, unique, and as much for kids as for adults. Monsters University is obviously an expansion on the first, and reminds me of traditional American sophomore naughty movies (minus the sex) and the Revenge of the Nerds, films that I usually enjoy and find funny; so it is more for adults and less for children. If you don't like sophomore movies, well, MU might disappoint you.
Overall, the film is very funny and entertaining, and the animation is wonderfully creative, with a great use of color and textures, great backgrounds, and lovely well-developed characters.
The dubbing is great. Crystal, Goodman Buccemi, Mirren and the rest of the cast infuse their characters with life and one forgets that they are the ones speaking, something that not always happen in animation when well-known actors do the voicing and they aren't there, in the soul of the character.