Monsters University — Page 3

I went after 10pm and there was a family with a preschooler and baby. The baby cried through half the movie. Of course, the parents couldn't be bothered to remove the child from the theater. I was ready to report them to CPS by the end of it.

"Pixar I think have had there golden years sadly, the last few have left me underwhelmed. Even UP was lacking magic"

Really? Toy Story 3 was underwhelming? I don't think I've ever cried so much in a movie theater.

I liked it. Little Mike Wazowski in his braces was almost as cute as Boo. Sure, it wasn't on the same level as the Toy Storys, Finding Nemo or WALL-E, but neither was the original. I'd rank it somewhere in the middle around Brave and A Bug's Life.

My friend once said about Brave "It's OK for a Pixar movie. But OK for a Pixar movie is still a really good movie." This is practically Schindler's List compared to how Turbo and Planes look.

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Updated On: 6/23/13 at 11:04 PM

"I went after 10pm and there was a family with a preschooler and baby. The baby cried through half the movie."

There was a baby in my theater that made noise, but it was only during the scene where Mike and Sulley got kicked out off the scare program. As I mentioned times have definitely changed. Tommy Depola wrote a book, called '26 Fairmount Avenue', about his days as kid and in one chapter his mom took him to see 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and he was loud during one point and a lady told him to be quiet.

I always wondered if theaters started to let babies into movies beginning in 2011 because in this video this couple says they did not take their little ones to see 'The Princess and the Frog' in theaters and this video was filmed during March 2010.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXm8BX1gJXE

I think parents should only take babies to movies if there is a special showing of something like 'Strawberry Shortcake', 'Sesame Street', 'The Wiggles' or something like that. Parents should also take toddlers to special showings of movies. There also needs to be more advertisements before movies saying, "if you're child becomes disruptive please step out". There use to be an effective one showing in AMC Theaters, but now it's been replaced by one with 'Despicable Me' characters saying how important it is to not use for phone and make noise. Children being loud is not one of things they mentioned.


ETA: In conclusion, movie theaters are not playgrounds.

Updated On: 6/24/13 at 12:25 AM

"This is practically Schindler's List compared to how Turbo and Planes look."

Exactly. Unfortunately it's supposed to be a comedy.

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"Also the last 30 minutes of it were some of the most fantastic last half hour of anything in a while."

Some of the most fantastic last half hour of anything in a while, huh?

You see how that sounds like not very much, right?

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Except for the fact that they totally cheated. MINOR SPOILER








"I've read every book on scaring there is and all we have to do is get such loud screaming blah blah bleccccch..."

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Re: the appropriateness for children---

My grandson is 5. We caught a matinee. He stayed with the film throughout but he didn't get many of the jokes. It has a "G" rating and I didn't think there was anything inappropriate for him in the movie.

He's running about shouting "Roar!" quite a bit, though.

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Toy Story 2 is the best of the three. The third film feels a tad overrated to me.

Here's why some of us had some bad luck with noisy toddlers in the audience:

"Only 27% of the moviegoers who went to see “Monsters University,” the 14th film from the Disney-owned toon shop, were single adults, couples and teenagers. That’s a surprisingly modest share, especially since the film wound up grossing an impressive $82.4 million domestic opening, the second-highest debut for a Pixar film (behind “Toy Story 3?)."


Why ‘Monsters U’ Skewed Younger Than Previous Pixar Toons

My grandson is 5. We caught a matinee. He stayed with the film throughout but he didn't get many of the jokes. It has a "G" rating and I didn't think there was anything inappropriate for him in the movie.

It's not that the film itself was inappropriate. It's a cartoon - of course it's appropriate. But anything that starts after 9pm is inappropriate for that age IMO

It is a movie strictly for babies and the developmentally delayed

My sister is developmentally delayed. But I'm not really sure why you had to point out that group specifically.

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I didn't mean offense to the actually developmentally disabled or those who love them. I can't think of a more exact way to say people who are no longer children who sentimentally hang onto the totems of childhood and who wear Winnie the Pooh sweatshirts. Or something. I guess I meant people who won't grow the hell up.

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It came out all wrong. I'm glad I was called on it so I could try to parse it more carefully.

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I really liked Monsters University. Bits of Animal House, bits of Harry Potter, and just generally likable. Found myself laughing a lot more than I thought I would in a film geared towards children. I don't watch a lot of Pixar movies (haven't seen once since Up), so not as knowledgable on the genre as many of the commenters on this thread seem to be... But I dug it. :)

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^Okay, I laughed at that.