Saturday, June 22, 2013

Monsters University and Me *warning spoilers*

So yesterday I went and saw Monsters University ( the prequel to Monsters Inc) at my local movie theater with my friend. If you are in any doubt about seeing it..you are wrong. This movie was great. I loved watching it ( even though I was surrounded by small children but still I loved it) and overall the movie really exceeded my expectations. As a person who is not 5, 6, or 7 years old I walked into the theater with an adult mindset hoping that the movie would have several levels of humor, which it did. What made this movie really great were those levels of humor ( though at times it was a bit awkward when there was a joke geared for adults and I laughed while all the kids in the theater were silent).
Besides the humor there was a moral tucked in there too. During the movie we sympathize with Mike as everyone tells him he can never be a scarer, but with hard work Mike finally achieves his goal that for years every single person doubted his abilities just because of the fact "he was not scary enough". Strangely while I was watching the movie I realized that Mike and I that same thing in common, the scary part, but being doubted about our abilities. When I was in 5th grade a teacher asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. That was an easy question, I wanted to be an orthodontist, I had known since I was in 3rd grade when I was in Girl Scouts and our troop was given a project to research a career option that we liked. Now being myself,I wanted to choose a career that no one else in my troop would have chosen, which in my case I knew I did not want to be a teacher, too much paper work and being with kids all the time almost seemed like torture, or a veterinarian because I can't stand to see animals in pain plus operating on an animal, I just didn't like it. Anyway as I was saying after I told that teacher I wanted to be an orthodontist she replied with " wow, you know need to be really smart and have a lot of money" in a tone of  pure sarcasm and belittlement, similar to how monsters treated Mike in the movie. In addition to both Mike and I having been told our dreams were too great to be reached, it never stood in our way, Mike achieved his goal and I will too.
This movie has every thing, from humor to morals to scariness to college, this movie really has become my favorite sequel/prequel.

No comments:

Post a Comment