Monsters University is the perfect excuse to distract your kids for a few hours by taking them to it. However, you might want to just go into the theater for This Is The End. Have no fear---your kids are being distracted by the bright colors and cliched story that may have them in its grasp because they're too young to understand just how many times this idea has been done.
The film follows Sullivan (John Goodman) and Mike (Billy Crystal.) They both attended college at the prestigious MU and meet in a class taught by Professor Knight (Alfred Molina.) They are complete opposites and hate each other because of the fact. Sullivan scares by being physically present and Mike scares by using the tactics listed in his MU textbook. When an incident almost gets both of them expelled...they must join forces to play in The Scare Games and prove their worthiness to Dean Hardscrabble (Helen Mirren.) However, they must compete against bigger, better scares. If this all sounds familiar...you may have went from the theater playing The Internship to the theater playing this. However, in The Internship...the idea was done well. Here...it's just so humdrum.
It's sad, actually that a film with such potential could fail so badly. It's not funny, it's not clever and it just keeps going on and on. Never have I been so excited for a film and then just wanted to end so badly. The film will no doubt please kids and maybe even some parents who are happy enough that it means they won't have to pay 100 dollars for a babysitter. However, as a single man with no kids....I could never get into it. The same with mostly be said for all people like myself.
The film is not horrible. It does have some nice touches although none of them come as a surprise at all. The film wobbles on to its very obvious conclusion and the bright colors are just rehashed from Monsters, Inc. Perhaps kids who aren't old enough to have seen Monsters, Inc in 2D when it first came out will enjoy this because it will be a new experience for them. For everyone else---it's just the same old song and dance told the same way. However, this time...the dance has no heart, no soul and no rhythm.
(1 and 1/2 out of 5 Stars, The film is rated G)
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