【电影简介】

麦克（大眼仔），在参观怪兽电力公司之后，下定决心要考进怪兽大学学习惊吓技能，将来成为一名惊吓专员。后来他如愿以偿考入了怪兽大学。开学不久的一天晚上，一个体积巨大的叫做苏利文的怪物闯进了麦克宿舍。当时，苏利文（毛怪）打算把怪兽大学的竞争对手恐怖科技学院的吉祥物藏在自己的房间，却误打误撞跑到了麦克的宿舍（当时他是爬窗进去的）。

这个吉祥物后来使得两人成为了冤家。两人在学院开设的恐吓课上，相互较量，看谁的恐吓本领更强。到了这门课程期末考试的时候，发生了一点意外，使得它们两都被惊吓学院的院长开除，去了别的学院，同时苏利文也被自己的社团开除。麦克为了证明自己是有能力成为出色的惊吓专员，而当初院长开除他的决定是错误的，他加入了一个二流怪物组成的社团，与队友一起参加惊吓大赛。但这个二流怪物的社团实在是缺兵少将，他们还需要一个参赛者才能达到最低报名人数。为此，麦克不得已选择自己的死对头苏利文。在大赛的报名现场，他向院长保证，如果他输了，他就离开怪兽大学。同时院长也答应了他，如果他赢了，他和队友能重回惊吓学院。在比赛的过程中，苏利文和麦克渐渐地解开了心中的心结，成为了好朋友。

【音频文本】

Despite taking in big earnings at the Chinese box office, the 3D computer-animated comedy "Monsters University" is yet another indicator of Pixar's loss of creativity. This forced addition to the Monsters series offers nothing new, except the varying degrees of weirdness in the appearance of the monsters.

I guess the happy ending of "Monsters Inc" was an unfortunate inconvenience for the producers, forcing them to focus their limited capacity for creativity on a prequel. So, the story goes back a few years to track the life of young monster Michael "Mike" Wazowski, who dreams of becoming a scarer when he grows up.

Through continuous hard work, young Mike eventually lands himself a place as a scare major at Monsters University. There, he meets Sulley, who comes from a talented family of scarers and therefore doesn't have towork hard, relying on his natural scaring ability. Almost immediately a rivalry is formed between the starkly different duo, and that rivalry leads to both being dropped from the scare program. Their only way back into the program is to team up and win an annual scare game, but the odds are not in their favor asthe rest of their team members are not physically scary.

Sadly, the film falls into the good student-bad student, teamwork and American dream kind of cliché. Mike's dream of becoming an excellent scarer and his conflict with bad student Sulley make up the main driving force of the story. Teamwork is ultimately what helps the two partners settle their differences and becomebest friends. Kids may be able to get an idea of college life from the film, but for adult viewers, there is hardly anything to stop them from falling sleep. Without the animated monsters, the movie is no different from any other superficial story about college life.

Pixar's creative strength seems to have hit a bottleneck since Cars 2 and Brave; a new monster movie couldhave been what it needed to redeem its reputation, but "Monster University" has clearly failed to deliver this. Todd McCarthy, with Hollywood Reporter, provices the most apt description for the film, saying: Monsters University almost feels like a film made to fill a slot in a release schedule rather than something that simply had to be made for its own organic reasons.

This unnecessary addition to Monsters franchise deserve a five out of ten.

轻松调频EZFM 微信mrweekly