12 years ago, the wonderful cartoon `` Monsters, Inc. '' was released about the most charming scares in the world, whose parallel world and day cannot live without the help of human children. This amazing and perfectly realized idea was simply doomed to success from the very beginning. Which was not long in coming - this story, it seems, is impossible not to love, especially as a child, which was done by millions of children and their parents around the world. And it is all the more surprising that its sequel - which eventually turned into a prehistory - made itself wait so long. But now we finally have a chance to find out how it all began; how Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan evolved from a self-confident nerd and a macho macho into the most famous residents of Monstropolis ...
It looks like the producers have been waiting for so long with only one goal - to wait for a new generation of children, and even younger than their predecessors. This is despite the university theme, in which the whole action takes place. It seems that it turned out to be just a bait for the grown-up fans of the first cartoon; the heroes have no time to study, the heroes even have no time for student life, they are all amicably busy with something completely different, to match the youngest visitors to the cinema.
However, I ask you to forgive all this grumbling of an over-aged admirer of the Corporation. Children will be delighted, especially if they have not seen the first cartoon. While sophisticated - and yes, not always young - eyes will eagerly snatch familiar characters in the new scenery of a familiar world, more unclouded eyes will enjoy the exuberant colors of the campus. Monstropolis is still as bright and beautiful as before.
And the heroes themselves, having become younger, did not become worse. The characters, of course, are somewhat different - more impulsive, some are ambitious, some are frivolous, in a word, younger. But the essence - what is called the inner core - is still the same. Two completely, in everything different - and thanks to this complementary to each other - light and cheerful beings. Crazy, but good-natured, dear to heart and soul.
However, with the exception of one old friend and a few very episodic `` guests from the future '', all the other characters are new. And, besides the appearance, they cannot boast of anything original anymore. The impression is made only by the dean of the terrible faculty, and even then purely because of his truly infernal, but at the same time elegant and graceful appearance. Most of them are unremarkable and gray, you don't expect any unexpected surprises from them - and, as if knowing about it, they are not going to surprise them.
A similar problem with the plot. " Corporation " was fascinating, above all, by a series of pleasing to the eye and soul of adventures, in which the authors - obviously, first of all, Andrew Stanton, whose departure from work on the second part, it seems, played a decisive role - with pleasure put all their rich imagination. A series of unusual situations in which unusual characters fell, ended with an extraordinary and only true ending, which, nevertheless, was not sucked from the finger, and was fed with regular premises and hints.
"Monster University" it simply cannot boast of such. Everything here is straightforward like rails and predictable like sunrise and sunset. The rest of the writers seem to have sifted through a bunch of templates and cliches to pick out the most overwhelmed ones. As a result, watching all this, even in spite of the cheerful and high-quality humor, is funny and exciting, but to reconsider ... you just want to revise the same `` Corporation ''.
And a few words in conclusion about localization - it would be a sin not to mention the extremely high-quality work of our distributors. They not only perfectly voiced the characters, but also were not too lazy to perfectly translate all the inscriptions in the cartoon itself, and by no means with subtitles. For which they are huge from the heart, human thanks.
Alas, it makes sense for people familiar with this Universe to watch this story, perhaps, only to find out how Mike and Sally came to life like this. Look - and return with gaze and thoughts to a higher quality Monsters, Inc. Dan Scanlon - his debut full-length work, by the way - made a cartoon that was good in the general stream of animation, but not close to his progenitor. So it remains only to envy those who began their acquaintance with Monstropolis from the `` University '' - for them everything will only get better and more interesting as soon as they get to the original story.
how Mike and Sally came to life like this. Look - and return with both eyes and thoughts to a higher quality `` Monsters, Inc. ''. Dan Scanlon - his debut full-length work, by the way - made a cartoon that was good in the general stream of animation, but not close to his progenitor. So it remains only to envy those who began their acquaintance with Monstropolis from the `` University '' - for them everything will only get better and more interesting as soon as they get to the original story.
how Mike and Sally came to life like this. Look - and return with gaze and thoughts to a higher quality Monsters, Inc. Dan Scanlon - his debut full-length work, by the way - made a cartoon that was good in the general stream of animation, but not close to his progenitor. So it remains only to envy those who began their acquaintance with Monstropolis from the `` University '' - for them everything will only get better and more interesting as soon as they get to the original story.
So it remains only to envy those who began their acquaintance with Monstropolis from the `` University '' - for them everything will only get better and more interesting as soon as they get to the original story.
So it remains only to envy those who began their acquaintance with Monstropolis from the `` University '' - for them everything will only get better and more interesting as soon as they get to the original story.
The Topic of Article: Review of the cartoon Monsters University. Learning hard.
Author: Jake Pinkman |
