Monday, January 3, 2011

CAN I BORROW YOUR ODORANT?  There is a rumor regarding the general plot of Pixar's Monsters Inc. 2 (in theaters 11-16-2012) which some here will want to discuss.  Do not even hover your mouse over this link if you don't want to know, and certainly don't click on the comments.

24 comments:

  1. I'm 1000 percent in favor of this. It all but guarantees that it won't be the same story told over again.

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  2. KCosmo's neighbor9:34 PM

    Sorry to hijack...but what happened to my neighbor's post about the Magic Eraser? It seems to have been, well, erased from the site. [Normally this type of thing wouldn't bother me, but I had posted a very(?) important comment regarding glass cleaning.]

    Thanks. Carry on.

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  3. It's still there.  Top post on 1/1/11.

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  4. Anonymous9:56 PM

    I've been very concerned about the sequel, as I adore the original Monsters, Inc.  But a prequel could work nicely.  

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  5. Tosy and Cosh11:07 PM

    Two things give me pause. One - was curious to see the "laughter for power" world explored. Two - and this one is much more important for me. No Boo. No Boo makes me sad.

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  6. I don't like this.  Much as I love Monsters, Inc., there isn't room for another one.  The ending of the first one reached resolution, and revisiting in the future wouldn't work (I wouldn't mind a short on the laughter-for-power world, but they'd have to contrive something that was going to upset the balance to drive a whole movie, and it would feel forced to me.)  And a prequel is almost by definition less interesting, because the stakes are necessarily low (we know that they wind up best friends and alright).  I'd leave this one alone.

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  7. I trust Pixar, even if Cars 2 looks awful--remember that they bagged Newt when they couldn't get the story to work, and dramatically retooled Ratatouille in development.  And I think there's an interesting story to be told assuming real time advanced in our world and the human world in the movie at the same time--Boo is now a big girl who's persuaded herself that the monsters in her closet aren't real when Mike and Sulley return, but once she's over the age of 18, her laughs no longer work to power the system.  Kind of a bookend piece to the stuff in TS3 about growing up.

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  8. "Guest" was me.

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  9. Marsha11:50 AM

    I trust Pixar. They did Toy Story 2 and 3 so well, and they waited to do them until they could really do them right. So if they think they've got something good here, I trust them. Cars 2 is irrelevant to me - they're going for something entirely different with the whole Cars thing than with the rest of their movies, and it's ok that it doesn't speak to me.

    And I'll go see Monsters Inc II pretty much no matter what.

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  10. bella wilfer12:43 PM

    Totally agree.  Not sure where you go from the end of Monsters 1 unless somehow Boo grows up and there's a new adventure with her at a different age ala Toy Story 3...

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  11. <span>Is it really creepy to say "I knew that was Jenn.?"  (Because you've extolled Monsters, Inc. before.)</span>

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  12. isaac_spaceman3:23 PM

    Russ -- do you go into Pixar movies thinking that the main characters might not come out as friends and all right? 

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  13. I know there's going to ultimately be some sort of happy ending, but there's likely to be a curveball.  During the furnace sequence in Toy Story 3, I was legitimately concerned that they might kill at least some of the characters.

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  14. Jenn.5:56 PM

    I'll vote for "not creepy" and more "observant when Jenn goes on and on about something good or rants about something bad."  I mean, I'll bet that you even know that I detest Joe Morgan and Tim McCarver.  You may have even guessed that there is a pretty good likelihood that I will celebrate the first Joe-Morgan-free Sunday Night Baseball with a really nice bottle of wine.

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  15. spacewoman10:11 PM

    On that note, sometimes I find myself thinking, "Jenn would like this music.  Ergo, so would I."

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  16. spacewoman10:12 PM

    Me too, Matt, but in retrospect, I kind of felt like an idiot.

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  17. spacewoman10:14 PM

    And in case you're thinking "that was so mean that it must have been isaac forgetting to switch the handle again," no, it was me.  Let's face it, every grownup I know who saw the movie thought the same thing, and we were all idiots.

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  18. I thought this too.  And I felt extra-stupid, because when the crane-game guys left the group, I had said to myself, "Ok, they'll come save the day when the rest are in trouble."  True story.  

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  19. Isaac, I know you've read all the archival materials on the history of Pixar, but apparently you never saw the first draft of Nemo, in which Nemo and his father died in the mutiny in the very beginning.  The whole film was 3 minutes long.  

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  20. I trust no one.  No one.

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  21. During Up, I thought that Russell might be bitten by a poisonous snake and wind up having to have his arm amputated.  Then, later, we'd learn that he grew up to be a spinster.  Or bachelor.  One of the two.

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  22. Heh.  Maybe I should beg and wheedle to get Adam to do a post on my semi-annual itunes mixes.

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  23. Also (meant to say this before), thank you for the compliment! 

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  24. Derby7:48 PM

    This is actuallly the first i've read of Monsters Inc 2.  Great news, i'm pretty much from the school of thought that after George Lucas defined how bad "cash-in sequels/prequals" can be, this one will probably be ok.  George set the bar very low.

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