I actually liked this better than the first movie. Mike has always wanted to be a scarer ever since a field trip in grade school. He has studied and prepared his entire life to be part of the Scare School at Monsters University. Sully is from a family scarers and is running on his family's reputation, not studying or taking any lessons seriously. The Scare School is run by Dean Hardscrabble, who looks, acts, and sounds exactly like the Grand Councilwoman from Lilo and Stitch. Both Mike and Sully get kicked out of the Scare School and want desperately to get back in.
Mike joins the loser nerd fraternity, Lambda Lambda Lambda, I mean Oozma Kappa, so he can be part of the Scare Games, and rejoin the Scare School. Since his team is a member short, Sully joins him as he also sees this as his chance to be part of the school again. They complete their first challenge without getting eliminated by sheer luck, but study and work hard to get better and better at each game. This part of the movie, where Oozma Kappa beats the cool jock fraternity, is almost exactly like Revenge of the Nerds.
Unfortunately, Mike discovers that Sully cheated because he knew Mike wasn't scary enough to win. Angered, Mike goes through a door into the human world to prove he can scare. Sully chases after him and together they manage to produce a scare so magnificent, it allows them to escape to the Monster world. Still, they are both expelled from school, but that doesn't stop them from applying to Monsters, Inc. anyway. They work their way up from the bottom and eventually make it as scarers. It shows that there can be multiple paths to get where you want to be, and sometimes college isn't for everyone. The whole movie was funny, especially the games, and it was surprisingly well done for a sequel. Well, prequel. I will give it a 7/10.
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