 Is it possible, for the first time in existence, for a prequel to be better than its predecessor? Let's find out this week as I take Monsters Inc. vs. Monsters University. Oh, I'm scared, my excitement. While Monsters U does indeed focus on the two main leads for Monsters Inc., their characters play out much different in this one. Mike Wazowski is for all intents and purposes the same, voiced by Billy Crystal, but James P. Sullivan, or Sully for short, played by John Goodman, is an entirely different beast, pun intended. In Monsters University, Sully is a bit of a douche. It's almost entirely new faces, outside of a couple small cameos. And those fresh faces are surprisingly voiced by a large number of popular actors. We have Helen Mirren voicing the Dean. We have Charlie Day from Always Sony in Philadelphia as Art, who is, by the way, hilarious in this film. Henry Plaza from Parks and Rec, a show I love and you should watch. Bonnie Hunt, for some reason, is randomly in this, Bill Hader is in the mix, Jim from The Office throws his hat into the ring, hell, we even have Nathan Fillion stepping off Serenity to jump in the mix. Here's the rub, as the kids say. Do they hold a candle to Boo from the original? Ask yourself that. Do they handle Boo? I'm going with Draw on this one. Canvass, Mark Draw on the board back there. Your name's seriously Canvass, who named you that? Get out. No. Don't even get your stuff, just leave. Let's move on to round two. Story. I don't know why you said it like that. Let's dive in a little deeper. Let's get the scuba gear on and jump in head first. We're doing water analogies right now on a Monster Zinc versus episode. That's how lost I am in this show. The Monster Zinc is what I would classify as a wholly unique film. It's extremely creative, it's fantastically written, and hell, it has one of the top ten endings of all time. Yeah, I just said that, of all time. And because I've said it on the internet, it has now become fact. It has stamped, kssss, branded fact. Even thinking about the scene, let me start to tear up a bit. Here they come. Here they come. Open them. Open the door. Sorry, it tips so long to pass. Open the door. There's a lot of work to go through. Open the f***ing door, we've been waiting to see her again. Oh my god, here we go, oh my god. If she says kitty, I'm going to lose it, I'm going to break down right now. She said it. It hurts so good, it hurts so good. So where does that leave Monsters U? Well, it's more run of the mill, there's no question about that, but that doesn't mean it's bad. It's extremely funny. It plays off all those frat films, it has countless references, I couldn't count them, so therefore it is countless. Age can be a cruel horror, and that's no exception when it comes to animation. If anything, it's more abundantly clear how much age affects these films. Monsters Inc. is a beautiful film, I can feast on it for hours, I'm just eat it up. This university is a gorgeous buffet that I can feast on for an eternity, until five years from now when a prettier looking picture comes out and makes it look like ass in comparison. But for right now, university is just a shining beacon of glory that I can gaze upon and just take it all in. If it weren't for the giant green and purple monsters in the foreground, I would think that that campus is real. Granted, I wouldn't be able to get into the university if it did exist because I'm not a scare. I don't have the ability to scare. Let me prove it. That was me growling. In the original Monsters Inc. I turned to the door sequence, I thought that was wonderfully done, albeit a bit long in the tooth, they could have cut it a little bit. But then you go to Monsters U, and there's four or five of these fantastic scenes. You've got the college games, the scare games or trials or whatever the f**k it's called. There's like three or four different ones there that are just awesome to watch. And they never overstay their welcome. They could have stretched this out, padded it, and made it two or three more films. But they didn't. They gave us one tight package, and if there's anything I like, it's tight packages. That sound gay? So when I think about the music, I don't know. It's serviceable. It's well done. It's Pixar. They don't make bad movies outside of Brave. We get some nice emotional songs in Monsters Inc. We get some fun, frat house, playful music at Monsters University. I'll give it a draw, but it's not really brings me into these films. It's definitely no Prince Ali or be our guest. There's just none of that around anymore. I am so emotional today. There's really not a lot to compare in these two films outside of the lead characters, so I have the debate at all you ask. Well, now that you asked, it's because I'm curious to hear what you thought about the new film versus the old one. Was it necessary to be made? Did you see it as a soulless cash grab? Perhaps you thought the original wasn't that great, and this university was a film that they needed to make from the get-go. I'm also going to leave you with this. More than just reviews, this is Movie Feuds. And now for the scare. Hey! Why can't I scare? The foilage, the foilage, I can't say that word foilage, foilage, foilage.