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''Monsters University'' is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed by Dan Scanlon and produced by Kori Rae, with John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich as executive producers. It is the fourteenth feature film produced by Pixar and is a prequel to 2001's ''Monsters, Inc.'', marking the first time Pixar has made a prequel film.〔 Disney, as the rights holder, had plans for a sequel to ''Monsters, Inc.'' since 2005. Following disagreements with Pixar, Disney tasked its Circle 7 Animation unit to make the film.〔 An early draft of the film was developed; however, Disney's purchase of Pixar in early 2006 led to the cancellation of Circle 7's version of the film.〔 A Pixar-made sequel was confirmed in 2010,〔 and in 2011, it was confirmed that the film would instead be a prequel titled ''Monsters University''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pixar announces 'Monsters Inc.' sequel is actually prequel )〕 ''Monsters University'' tells the story of two monsters, Mike and Sulley, and their time studying at college, where they start off as rivals, but slowly become best friends. John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, Bob Peterson, and John Ratzenberger reprise their roles as James P. Sullivan, Mike Wazowski, Randall Boggs, Roz, and the Abominable Snowman, respectively. Bonnie Hunt, who played Ms. Flint in the first film, voices Mike's grade school teacher Ms. Karen Graves. The music for the film is composed by Randy Newman, marking his seventh collaboration with Pixar. ''Monsters University'' premiered on June 5, 2013, at the BFI Southbank in London, United Kingdom and was released on June 21, 2013, in the United States. It was accompanied in theaters by a short film, ''The Blue Umbrella'', directed by Saschka Unseld. The film received positive reviews and was a box office success, grossing $743 million against its estimated budget of $200 million.〔〔 An animated short film titled ''Party Central'', which takes place shortly after the events of ''Monsters University'', premiered in Fall 2013. ==Plot== A young monster named Michael "Mike" Wazowski dreams of being a scarer (a monster who enters the human world at night to scare children so their screams can be harvested for energy) when he grows up, after visiting Monsters Inc, Monstropolis's most profitable scaring company on a school field trip. Eleven years later, Mike is a first-year scare major at Monsters University, where he meets a monster named James P. "Sulley" Sullivan. Mike studies hard, while the privileged Sulley, who comes from a family of talented scarers, relies only on his natural ability and begins to falter. As the semester progresses, Mike and Sulley attempt to join a fraternity, but only Sulley gets into the prestigious Roar Omega Roar. At the semester's final exam, after they accidentally break Dean Abigail Hardscrabble's cherished Scream Can, Hardscrabble fails them both and expels them from the program, stating that Sulley does not study enough, and Mike is simply not scary enough. Mike decides to prove himself by entering the university's Scare Games, making a wager with the skeptical Hardscrabble where she agrees to readmit the whole team to the scare program if they win, but Mike must leave the school if they lose. He joins a group of misfits called Oozma Kappa, to compete in the Scare Games, but they are denied entry as they are one team member short. Seeing the competition as his ticket back into the scare program, Sulley volunteers and Mike reluctantly accepts. Oozma Kappa finishes last in the first challenge, but is saved from elimination after another team is disqualified for violating the rules. Oozma Kappa advances through subsequent challenges, improving gradually thanks to Mike's knowledge of scaring, and training. In the final round, they pull off a close victory with a decisive final scare by Mike in the simulation bedroom. However, Mike soon discovers that he only won because Sulley rigged the machine to give him a top score before he went in. Determined to prove he can become a scarer, Mike breaks into the school's door lab and enters a door to the human world leading to a summer camp, but he is unable to scare a cabin full of children, and runs off into the woods. Back at the university, Roar Omega Roar offers to reinstate Sulley, but he refuses, instead confessing to Hardscrabble that he cheated, just as she is alerted of Mike's break-in. Realizing what happened, Sulley enters the same door to look for Mike, defying Hardscrabble's objections. After finding Mike and reconciling, they try to return, but are trapped in the human world – Hardscrabble having deactivated the door they used until the authorities arrive – and are now being pursued by camp rangers. Mike realizes that the only way to return to the monster world is to generate enough scream energy to power the door from their side. Working together, Sulley and Mike terrify the camp rangers, generating an overwhelming amount of scream energy and allowing them to return to the lab, where they are led away by the CDA. Mike and Sulley are expelled from the university as a result of their actions, but the other members of Oozma Kappa are accepted into the scare program the next semester. As Mike leaves on the bus, Sulley runs after him to encourage him. Hardscrabble then appears and tells them that, although she cannot reinstate the two, they are the first students to have surprised her, and wishes them luck. The two take jobs in the mail room of Monsters, Inc., eventually working their way up to join the Scarer Team and set the events of ''Monsters, Inc.'' in motion. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Monsters University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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