【電影簡介】

麥克（大眼仔），在參觀怪獸電力公司之后，下定決心要考進怪獸大學學習驚嚇技能，將來成為一名驚嚇專員。后來他如愿以償考入了怪獸大學。開學不久的一天晚上，一個體積巨大的叫做蘇利文的怪物闖進了麥克宿舍。當時，蘇利文（毛怪）打算把怪獸大學的競爭對手恐怖科技學院的吉祥物藏在自己的房間，卻誤打誤撞跑到了麥克的宿舍（當時他是爬窗進去的）。

這個吉祥物后來使得兩人成為了冤家。兩人在學院開設的恐嚇課上，相互較量，看誰的恐嚇本領更強。到了這門課程期末考試的時候，發生了一點意外，使得它們兩都被驚嚇學院的院長開除，去了別的學院，同時蘇利文也被自己的社團開除。麥克為了證明自己是有能力成為出色的驚嚇專員，而當初院長開除他的決定是錯誤的，他加入了一個二流怪物組成的社團，與隊友一起參加驚嚇大賽。但這個二流怪物的社團實在是缺兵少將，他們還需要一個參賽者才能達到最低報名人數。為此，麥克不得已選擇自己的死對頭蘇利文。在大賽的報名現場，他向院長保證，如果他輸了，他就離開怪獸大學。同時院長也答應了他，如果他贏了，他和隊友能重回驚嚇學院。在比賽的過程中，蘇利文和麥克漸漸地解開了心中的心結，成為了好朋友。

【音頻文本】

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.

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