The monster university
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The monster university |
| Original title | Monsters University |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dan Scanlon |
| script |
Daniel Gerson Robert L. Baird Dan Scanlon |
| production | Kori Rae |
| music | Randy Newman |
| cut | Greg Snyder |
| chronology | |
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The Monster Uni (original title: Monsters University) is an American computer animation film from Disney / Pixar . Directed by Dan Scanlon , who has worked as a storyboard artist for Disney / Pixars Cars (2006). The film tells the prehistory to Die Monster AG and is therefore the first prequel to a Pixar film. The traditional supporting film is The Blue Umbrella . The film premiered in Seattle on June 8, 2013.
action
The round, frog-green, cyclopean-eyed monster Mike Glotzkowski (in the English-language original "Wazowski") has wanted to go to monster university since kindergarten to learn the art of frightening. He is admitted to the university due to excellent theoretical knowledge and has to take a practical exam at the end of the first semester. Using a wooden dummy with a built-in shock meter, he is supposed to show that he is able to fulfill the standard task of a studied monster, namely to scare children.
Shortly before the exam, he clashes with the big, strong, bluish-pink fur monster James “Sulley” Sullivan, a highly talented but lazy offspring of a renowned monster family. Both of them annoy the dean, so that she immediately checks them particularly hard; both fail and are not allowed to continue studying "horror". Meanwhile studying scream canister design, Mike bets the dean that he will win the "Schreckspiele" - a student competition - and that he will be able to resume his studies for it. Since only university teams are allowed to participate, he joins Sulley for the competition in the not-so-well-respected because unsporting team Omega Kreischma (in the original: "Oozma Kappa"). All other teams had refused to accept the two.
During the games, Mike and Sulley learn that they can only win a game round if the whole team wins. So Mike trains the “Omega Kreischma” team, whose members have all dropped out of their studies. With luck and skill, they manage not to be the worst team in the first four game rounds and to be eliminated. In the final competition, Sulley secretly manipulated the mechanics of the shock meter in Mike's favor, fearing that despite all the knowledge he had accumulated during the semester, Mike would not be able to lead his team to victory due to a lack of "terribleness". Mike gets the full number of points for his final task in "child scare" and his team wins.
However, Mike finds out Sulley's manipulation and therefore wants to prove that he can really be "terribly frightening". Sulley goes to the dean and confesses to the fraud for which he takes sole responsibility. The dean gives him until the next day to leave the university. Mike now enters the dangerous human world through a sluice, where he initially fails in the dormitory of a holiday camp , as the children find him more funny than horrible. Sulley also ventures into the human world in search of him. There are now rangers on the hunt for the monster they saw. Sulley finds Mike and the two make up again. In the monster world, the dean has meanwhile switched off the energy supply to the lock door to prevent people from entering until an emergency team is on site. Mike and Sully are stuck. However, Mike comes up with the idea of generating screaming energy on site to operate the door. However, the only people on site are the rangers, i.e. adults who have never been frightened by a monster. Thanks to Mike's knowledge of screaming theory and the creation of fear and Sulley's natural horror, the two manage to scare the whole squad so terribly that they flee, all scream canisters in the monster world are filled and overflow, and finally energy in the door so that both can flee.
Because they represent a serious threat to the monster world, both are de-registered while the other members of "Omega Kreischma" are allowed to study horrorology. Mike and Sulley leave the university, but still meet the dean. She is deeply impressed by the two of them, apologizes for not being able to prevent the two of them from being deregistered, and wishes them the best of luck in their future lives.
Together they start as a helper in the mail department of Monster AG and work their way up (the credits are already running) through all administrative departments to form the scare team.
background
The film premiered on June 8, 2013 at the Seattle International Film Festival . Further screenings at international film festivals followed. The film opened in German and Swiss cinemas on June 20, 2013. In 2013, 1,378,010 visitors were counted at the box office nationwide, making the film 19th place in the list of the most visited films of the year.
On the opening weekend, the film grossed over 82.4 million US dollars in the US , and totaled over 268 million US dollars there.
On November 14, 2013, it was released by Walt Disney on BluRay and DVD with no FSK age limit.
The Pizza Planet truck parked to the left of the ROR fraternity house is featured in every Pixar movie. There is also a reference in every Pixar film to room A113, where the animation lectures are held at the California Institute of the Arts . In the film Die Monster Uni , Professor Knight's lecture hall is appropriately named A113 .
The Monster Uni campus is largely based on the Berkeley University of California campus , which is located near the Pixar headquarters in Emeryville . The wrought iron gate is modeled on the Sather Gate and the campanile clock tower of the university was the inspiration for the clock tower. The scare school is modeled after the Hamerschlag Hall of Carnegie Mellon University .
synchronization
The German dubbed version was produced by Film- & Fernseh-Synchron in Munich and Berlin . The dialogue book was written by Tobias Neumann , and the dubbing director was Axel Malzacher .
| English speaker | German speaker | role |
|---|---|---|
| Billy Crystal | Ilya Richter | Mike Glotzkowski |
| John Goodman | Reinhard Brock | James P. Sullivan |
| Steve Buscemi | Tim Sander | Randy |
| Helen Mirren | Kerstin Sanders-Dornseif | Dean Hardscrabble |
| Peter's son | Axel Stein | Scott "Squishy" squibbles |
| Joel Murray | Lutz Schnell | Don |
| Sean Hayes | Axel Malzacher | Terri |
| Dave Foley | Dennis Schmidt-Foss | Terry |
| Charlie Day | Elyas M'Barek | Art |
| Alfred Molina | Bernd Rumpf | Professor Knight |
| Beth Behrs | Elke Appelt | Carrie |
| Bobby Moynihan | Hans Hohlbein | Chet |
| Aubrey Plaza | Katrin Zimmermann | Claire Wheeler |
| John Krasinski | Manuel Neuer | Frank McCay |
| Nathan Fillion | Michael Lott | Johnny |
| Noah Johnston | Pablo Ribet Buse | Mike (young) |
| Bonnie Hunt | Susanne von Medvey | Mrs. Graves |
| Julia Sweeney | Almut Zydra | Ms. Squibbles |
| Bill Hader | Raimund Krone | referee |
| Jacob Weigert | slug | |
| John Ratzenberger | Walter von Hauff | yeti |
| Tyler Labine | Olaf Reichmann | Brock Pearson |
| Peter Flechtner | Monster AG tour guide | |
| Luise Lunow | pink |
For the German version, a lot of screen texts, lettering on signs, posters, etc. were translated and graphically integrated into the film, which happens very rarely.
Soundtrack
On June 18, 2013, Walt Disney Records released a soundtrack for the film that contains 20 tracks.
| No. | title |
|---|---|
| 1. | Main Title |
| 2. | Young Michael |
| 3. | First Day at MU |
| 4th | Dean Hardscrabble |
| 5. | Sulley |
| 6th | Scare Pig |
| 7th | Wasted potential |
| 8th. | Oozma Kappa |
| 9. | Stinging Glow Urchin |
| 10. | Field trip |
| 11. | Rise and Shine |
| 12. | The Library |
| 13. | Roar ( Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso ) |
| 14th | The Scare Games |
| 15th | Did you do this? |
| 16. | Human World |
| 17th | The big scare |
| 18th | Goodbyes |
| 19th | Mike and Sulley |
| 20th | Monsters University |
reception
Reviews
The film received mostly good reviews. The Rotten Tomatoes review collection lists almost 150 reviews, 78% of which are positive.
“Pixar is once again presenting a technically almost perfect animated film for the whole family that takes a look at the not-so-normal formation of monsters. They dream of later making a living by scaring children. As usual, director Dan Scanton's work is bursting with cute characters, magical visual ideas and amusing older viewers with charming allusions to pop culture and well-known college clichés. Maybe not Pixar's strongest, but still a good and recommendable film. "
Gross profit
The film topped the box office in the United States, grossing $ 82.4 million on the opening weekend, making it the second-best Pixar film result after Toy Story 3 at the time. In Germany, the film also reached number one in the box office and generated revenues of the equivalent of 3.65 million US dollars. With total revenues in Germany of 13.7 million US dollars and 1.4 million visitors, Monster Uni was the 19th most-watched film in Germany in 2013. In the end, revenues in the United States reached around 268.5 million US dollars . The rest of the world made $ 475 million, bringing the global box office to $ 743.5 million. Thus, Monsters University for Toy Story 3 , Finding Nemo , Inside Out and Find Dorie 's fifth most successful Pixar film.
Awards
At the 2013 Hollywood Film Festival , Dan Scanlon and Kori Rae received a Hollywood Film Award in the Animation of the Year category. Dan Scanlon also received a nomination for a Hollywood Movie Award . At the 2013 Teen Choice Awards , the film received a nomination in the Choice Summer Movie: Comedy category .
At the People's Choice Awards in 2014, the film was nominated in the categories Favorite Movie and Favorite Family Movie .
Web links
- Monsters University in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Monster Uni Official Website
- The Monster Uni at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Expert opinion of the German film and media rating
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Die Monster Uni . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2013 (PDF; test number: 139 191 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Die Monster Uni . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b c d e f g Internet Movie Database : Background information , accessed on November 17, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Internet Movie Database : Launch Dates , accessed November 17, 2013.
- ↑ KINOaktuell: What you wanted: Münster's cinema year 2013, C. Lou Lloyd, Filminfo No. 4, January 23-29, 2014, p. 24f
- ↑ a b Internet Movie Database : Budget and Box Office Results , accessed November 17, 2013.
- ↑ The Monster University (DVD). Weltbild, accessed September 9, 2013 .
- ↑ The Monster University (Blu-ray). Weltbild, accessed September 9, 2013 .
- ↑ The Monster University. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on November 16, 2013 .
- ↑ The Monster Uni at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- ↑ Adam Arndt: Die Monster Uni - film review . Serienjunkies.de . June 19, 2013. Accessed June 10, 2019.
- ^ A b Pixar Movies at the Box Office - Box Office Mojo. In: www.boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved August 4, 2016 .
- Jump up ↑ Monsters University (2013) - International Box Office Results - Box Office Mojo. In: www.boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved June 12, 2016 .
- ^ The most successful films in Germany 2013. In: www.insidekino.com. Retrieved June 12, 2016 .
- ^ Monsters University (2013) - Box Office Mojo. In: www.boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved June 12, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c d Internet Movie Database : Nominations and Awards , accessed November 17, 2013.