I made myself a monster and I made one for Blu.  Mine looked exactly like I would: she looked super smarticle but a little young for her age.  The one I made for Blu looked really bored and sophisticated, which isn't her, but it's all purple, so that's good. 

I saw the movie yesterday. I'd post my review now, but I'm in danger of getting caught for using the computer without permission.

Theo, did you stay for the credits?

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I'm asking because there was a scene after the credits where the snail who said "I can't be late on the first day!" goes to the classroom to find that the school year has ended because he was too slow.

Okay, my review of the movie at last...

The way it begins is most entertaining, and the quirks are faithful to the original. The character history is interesting, and it explains a lot when Randall Boggs declares bitterly, "That's the last time I lose to you, Sullivan!"

The story is a nice one, though it lacks a real villain, unless you count either ROR, who ridicules Oozma Kappa repeatedly and cruelly, or Dean Hardscrabble, who believes that there is no realistic hope for OK. But niether are really villains. And Dean Hardscrabble certainly shows great interest in Sulley and Mike by the end, even though they... I won't tell.

The movie is constantly entertaining, and the Pixar humor and heartstring tugs are both intact, though this prequel shows its greatness in a way much different from the original. But that way is a very interesting way. The nice little refences to the original - Mike forcing his team to get out of bed and do "scary feet" the way he does Sullet at the beginning of the original, is a most enlightening scene. As is the ending scene culminating in their scare work at Monsters Inc. I don't think that's a spoiler that they get to MI by the end, you already know they do. But I'm not saying how.

So, although it's missing several of the original's quirks, it replaces those with it's own that are equally entertaining.

I hope they do a sequel to the original next.

I saw it yesterday. The beginning when we're introduced to the university itself was probably my favorite part, just because, no, it wasn't exaggerating about what freshmen go through during the first few days. I spent the whole time pretty much flailing and being like "I KNOW THAT PERSON THEY GO TO MY SCHOOL" and then going into paroxysms of rage at the student who didn't bother to bring a pencil to the first day of class. THERE IS ALWAYS ONE. (This is what college does to people, I guess, because the friend I saw it with is also in college and had the same reaction.)

And then we met OK, and I melted because OH MY WORD THEY'RE THE CUTEST AND THE SADDEST AND JUST ALSDFHJA;FHJKA;; I WANT TO HUG THEM ALL.

...I think at this point, Pixar is just showing off their ability to make absolutely anything into woobie fodder. Business cards. Freaking. business. cards. But they were so sad and minimalist and default font-y and kind of tattered and damp looking and there was so much character in those cards that I just wanted to huggle Don FOREVER until he stopped being sad. The end. (oh I'm such a sap, aren't I?)

Dean Hardscrabble was the absolute best. British Cockroach/Dragon hybrid FTW. 

"I can't go back to jail!" almost killed me from laughing.

I love that they subvert the expectations for your typical College Underdog Team story, and that Sully and Mike take the H2$ approach to success. 

@JDD

I stayed until the end!  The credits thing was hilarious!