Though the premise of learning how to scare people is a strange premise in and of itself, the lessons learned in the movie are interesting and just a bit profound. Things such careful tolerance about “beings” different at school from others, healthy competition without some kind of evil gang or agenda, working together as a team even when some on the team do not excel in every area, “zero tolerance for wrong actions” and an uncontrived ending make the movie a bit different from many.
The movie does drag a bit at first with Mike Wazowski (voiced by Billy Crystal) learning about campus life but perhaps this is also a sign about real life in a real world. His great dream is to become a “Scarer” even though by his own admittance, he is not real scary. His roommate Sully (voiced by John Goodman) is the son of a “Scarer” and the expectation on campus is that he will do well simply because of who he was. (Sully is so easy-going and relaxed in his voice and style and mannerisms that he reminds me of Vicar Brad who served in our church a decade ago.)
I really didn’t expect the lesson on zero tolerance because I thought that Mike and Sully would somehow be rescued by someone or something. Ultimately, I was glad they were not “rescued.” That may be the reality of life at times. Instead, at the end of the movie they have to achieve their “Scarer” monster status by working themselves up from the bottom. That’s not a bad lesson to learn.
Though the movie has absolutely no negative language or images, the idea of scariness and being scared may not make this a very good movie for the very young.
I’m not a big fan of 3D though this movie wasn’t too bad in 3D.
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