Ladies and Gentlemen, whether you like it, the Pixar Playlist
OK, so I liked Monsters Inc, it was a perfectly fine movie with some creative ideas and a lot of charm to it. Can they recapture that charm with this prequel, Monsters University? Spoiler alert: no, no they cannot…
But that’s not to say there wasn’t effort put in, the production crew visited various colleges and some spent time in a Fraternity house to research college life. This film also was the first to use Global Illumination, a new lighting system they’d developed to essentially automate the process, so they didn’t have to insert shadows frame by frame.
Once again, the film had a $200m budget and made a decent profit, with a $743m box office haul and it came out favourably with critics too, with an 80% Rotten Tomatoes score. So why am I down on it? Let’s take a look.
