A look at the relationship between Mike and Sulley during their days at Monsters University — when they weren’t necessarily the best of friends.
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Credits: TheMovieDb.

Film Cast:

• Mike Wazowski (voice): Billy Crystal
• James ‘Sulley’ Sullivan (voice): John Goodman
• Randall Boggs (voice): Steve Buscemi
• Dean Hardscrabble (voice): Helen Mirren
• Scott ‘Squishy’ Squibbles (voice): Peter Sohn
• Don Carlton (voice): Joel Murray
• Terri Perry (voice): Sean Hayes
• Terry Perry (voice): Dave Foley
• Art (voice): Charlie Day
• Professor Knight (voice): Alfred Molina
• Brock Pearson (voice): Tyler Labine
• Johnny Worthington (voice): Nathan Fillion
• Claire Wheeler (voice): Aubrey Plaza
• Chet Alexander (voice): Bobby Moynihan
• Young Mike (voice): Noah Johnston
• Ms. Squibbles (voice): Julia Sweeney
• Karen Graves (voice): Bonnie Hunt
• Frank McCay (voice): John Krasinski
• Referee (voice): Bill Hader
• Carrie Williams (voice): Beth Behrs
• Roz (voice): Bob Peterson
• Yeti (voice): John Ratzenberger
• Additional Voices (voice): Lori Alan
• Additional Voices (voice): Carlos Alazraqui
• Additional Voices (voice): Jack Angel
• Additional Voices (voice): Bob Bergen
• Additional Voices (voice): Gregg Berger
• Additional Voices (voice): Rodger Bumpass
• Additional Voices (voice): Neil Campbell
• Additional Children’s Voices (voice): Ava Acres
• Additional Voices (voice): Sherry Lynn
• Monster (voice, uncredited): Paul Lazenby
• Additional Children’s Voices (voice): Aramé Scott
• Additional Children’s Voices (voice): Joseph John Schirle
• Additional Children’s Voices (voice): Kristen Li
• Additional Children’s Voices (voice): Davin Ransom
• Additional Children’s Voices (voice): Raymond Ochoa
• Additional Children’s Voices (voice): Calum John
• Additional Children’s Voices (voice): Montse Hernandez
• Additional Children’s Voices (voice): Mason Cook
• Additional Children’s Voices (voice): Makenna Cowgill
• Additional Children’s Voices (voice): Tyree Brown
• Additional Children’s Voices (voice): Jack Bright
• Additional Children’s Voices (voice): Isabella Acres
• Additional Voices (voice): April Winchell
• Additional Voices (voice): Colette Whitaker
• Additional Voices (voice): Jim Ward
• Additional Voices (voice): Marcia Wallace
• Additional Voices (voice): David Theune
• Additional Voices (voice): Tara Strong
• Additional Voices (voice): Mindy Sterling
• Additional Voices (voice): Joel Spence
• Additional Voices (voice): Betsy Sodaro
• Additional Voices (voice): Patrick Seitz
• Additional Voices (voice): Dan Scanlon
• Additional Voices (voice): Jan Rabson
• Additional Voices (voice): Cristina Pucelli
• Additional Voices (voice): Jeff Pidgeon
• Additional Voices (voice): Dannah Feinglass Phirman
• Additional Voices (voice): Donovan Patton
• Additional Voices (voice): Bret ‘Brook’ Parker
• Additional Voices (voice): Colleen O’Shaughnessey
• Additional Voices (voice): Laraine Newman
• Additional Voices (voice): David Neher
• Additional Voices (voice): Pam Murphy
• Additional Voices (voice): Matthew Mercer
• Additional Voices (voice): Alec Medlock
• Additional Voices (voice): Allan McLeod
• Additional Voices (voice): Mickie McGowan
• Additional Voices (voice): Tricia McAlpin
• Additional Voices (voice): Mona Marshall
• Additional Voices (voice): Jason Marsden
• Additional Voices (voice): Danny Mann
• Additional Voices (voice): Dawnn Lewis
• Additional Voices (voice): Elissa Knight
• Additional Voices (voice): John Kassir
• Additional Voices (voice): Brandon Johnson
• Additional Voices (voice): Jess Harnell
• Additional Voices (voice): Mike Hanford
• Additional Voices (voice): Daniel Gerson
• Additional Voices (voice): Teresa Ganzel
• Additional Voices (voice): Donald Fullilove
• Additional Voices (voice): Andy Fischer-Price
• Additional Voices (voice): Keith Ferguson
• Additional Voices (voice): Bill Farmer
• Additional Voices (voice): Paul Eiding
• Additional Voices (voice): Greg Dykstra
• Additional Voices (voice): John Cygan
• Additional Voices (voice): Sean Conroy
• Additional Voices (voice): Patrick Carlyle
• Additional Children’s Voices (voice): Natalie Jane Dang
• Additional Children’s Voices (voice): Gage Davenport
• Additional Children’s Voices (voice): Ethan Louis Samuels DiSalvio
• Additional Children’s Voices (voice): Faith Goblirsch
• Additional Children’s Voices (voice): Brooke Klinger
• Additional Children’s Voices (voice): Nikolas Michailidis
• Additional Children’s Voices (voice): Marley Pearson
• Additional Voices (voice): Lindsay Lefler

Film Crew:

• Executive Producer: Andrew Stanton
• Executive Producer: Lee Unkrich
• Executive Producer: John Lasseter
• Producer: Kori Rae
• Screenplay: Daniel Gerson
• Original Music Composer: Randy Newman
• Director of Photography: Jean-Claude Kalache
• Production Design: Ricky Nierva
• Screenplay: Robert L. Baird
• CG Painter: Laura Phillips
• Co-Art Director: Jason Deamer
• Painter: Randy Berrett
• Character Designer: Albert Lozano
• Layout: Patrick Lin
• Layout: Gregg Olsson
• Layout: Robert Anderson
• Story Artist: Louis Gonzales
• Layout: Mark Sanford
• Animation: Brett Pulliam
• Animation: Bret ‘Brook’ Parker
• Set Dressing Supervisor: David Eisenmann
• Supervising Animator: Scott Clark
• Animation: Alan Barillaro
• Animation Director: Andrew Gordon
• Animation: Brett Coderre
• Animation: Nancy Kato
• Animation: Wendell Lee
• Animation Director: Robert H. Russ
• Animation: Patty Kihm Stevenson
• Character Designer: Sanjay Patel
• Animation: Ross Stevenson
• Opening/Ending Animation: Ron Zorman
• Animation: Paul Mendoza
• Additional Editing: Ken Schretzmann
• Editor: Greg Snyder
• Sound Effects Editor: E.J. Holowicki
• Character Modelling Supervisor: Christian Hoffman
• Sets & Props Artist: Mark Adams
• Modeling: Paul Aichele
• Sculptor: Jason Bickerstaff
• Sculptor: Andrew Schmidt
• Simulation & Effects Production Assistant: Christine Waggoner
• Information Systems Manager: Sue Maatouk-Kalache
• Shading: Byron Bashforth
• Shading: David Batte
• Master Lighting Artist: Scott Clifford
• Master Lighting Artist: Tim Best
• Software Team Lead: Thomas Hahn
• Software Engineer: Tom Duff
• Software Team Lead: Ian Buono
• Software Engineer: Drew Rogge
• Animation: Arik Ehle
• Systems Administrators & Support: Erik Forman
• Post Production Supervisor: Paul Cichocki
• Production Office Assistant: Courtney Bergin
• Dialogue: Doc Kane
• Supervising Sound Editor: Michael Silvers
• Foley: Dennie Thorpe
• Foley: Jana Vance
• Music Editor: Bruno Coon
• Additional Editing: H. Lee Peterson
• Executive Producer: Pete Docter
• Sound Effects Editor: Teresa Eckton
• Supervising Sound Editor: Tom Myers
• Supervising Technical Director: Guido Quaroni
• Casting: Kevin Reher
• Additional Editing: Stephen Schaffer
• CG Painter: Laura Beth Albright
• ADR Voice Casting: Holly Dorff
• Orchestrator: J.A.C. Redford
• Layout: Andrew Cadelago
• Sound Recordist: Ronald G. Roumas
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Tony Sereno
• Layout: Colin Levy
• Story Supervisor: Kelsey Mann
• Director: Dan Scanlon
• Modeling: Raymond Wong
• Second Film Editor: Steve Bloom
• Story Supervisor: Jason Katz
• Casting: Natalie Lyon
• Layout: Adam Habib
• Master Lighting Artist: Josée Lajoie
• Animation: Timothy Hittle
• Sculptor: Greg Dykstra
• Sets & Props Artist: Richard Snyder
• Co-Art Director: Robert Kondo
• Art Direction: Daisuke Tsutsumi
• Music Supervisor: Tom MacDougall
• Editorial Manager: Gillian Libbert
• Animation: Carlo Vogele
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Michael Semanick
• Simulation & Effects Artist: Nick Lucas
• Lighting Director: Thomas Moser
• Publicist: Robin Chandler
• Publicist: Chris Wiggum
• Script Supervisor: Shannon Wood
• Foley Editor: Luke Dunn Gielmuda
• Foley Editor: Pascal Garneau
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Gary Summers
• Simulation & Effects Artist: Sonoko Konishi
• Title Designer: Susan Bradley
• Set Dressing Artist: Nelson ‘Rey’ Bohol
• Sound Effects Editor: Justin Pearson
• Sound Effects Editor: Dustin Cawood
• Associate Producer: Nicole Paradis Grindle
• Animation: Royce Wesley
• Animation: Erick Oh
• Systems Administrators & Support: Jason Watkins
• Additional Editing: Kevin Nolting
• Craft Service: Luis Alarcon-Cisneros
• Second Film Editor: Gregory Amundson
• Dialogue Editor: Brian Chumney
• Animation: Ramiro Lopez Dau
• Set Decorating Coordinator: Erin Magill
• Additional Editing: Serena Warner
• Orchestrator: Jonathan Sacks
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: James Spencer
• Director of Photography: Matt Aspbury
• Simulation & Effects Artist: Mach Tony Kobayashi
• Set Dressing Artist: Christina Garcia Weiland
• Title Designer: Adrian Molina
• Script Supervisor: Amanda Deering Jones
• Master Lighting Artist: Luke Martorelli
• Fix Animator: Adam Rodriguez
• Animation: Shaun Chacko
• Animation: Robb Denovan
• Animation Fix Coordinator: Claire Faggioli
• Animation Director: Michael Stocker
• Sets & Props Artist: Paul Abadilla
• Master Lighting Artist: Lloyd Bernberg
• Lighting Artist: Sungyeon Joh
• Lighting Manager: Joshua Hollander
• First Assistant Editor: C.J. Hsu
• Layout: Josh Anon
• Layout: Mark Shirra
• Layout: Matthew Silas
• Post-Production Manager: Eric Pearson
• Layout: Charlie Ramos
• Animation: Doug Sheppeck
• Animation: Kevin Chesnos
• Animation: Simon Christen
• Animation: K. C. Roeyer
• Opening/Ending Animation: Tom Gately
• Animation: Don Crum
• Animation: Steve Mason
• Animation: Everett Downing Jr.
• Animation: Austin Madison
• VFX Artist: Jason Johnston
• ADR Voice Casting: Kristen Li
• First Assistant Sound Editor: Chris Barron
• Production Manager: Cynthia Lusk
• Production Manager: David Park
• Layout: Russell J. Stough
• Foley Editor: Corey Tyler
• Visual Effects Designer: Amit Baadkar
• Simulation & Effects Artist: David Baraff
• Production Intern: Dani Belko
• Simulation & Effects Artist: Daniel Chang
• Simulation & Effects Artist: Jiayi Chong
• Visual Development: Eric Froemling
• Visual Effects Designer: Dave Hale
• Visual Effects Designer: Jim Cody Harrington
• Visual Development: Joshua Jenny
• Simulation & Effects Artist: Laurie Kim
• Simulation & Effects Artist: Tiffany Erickson Klohn
• Simulation & Effects Artist: Ian Krebs-Smith
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Brian London
• Visual Effects Designer: Stephen Marshall
• Simulation & Effects Production Assistant: Kirsten Peterson Marshall
• Visual Effects Designer: Konstantin Promokhov
• Simulation & Effects Artist: Samantha Raja
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Jon Reisch
• Simulation & Effects Artist: Edgar Rodriguez
• Modeling: Dale Ruffolo
• Visual Effects Designer: Tim Speltz
• Visual Effects Designer: Matthew Kiyoshi Wong
• Sets & Props Artist: Frank Aalbers
• Set Dressing Artist: Amy L. Allen
• Shading: Eric Andraos
• Animation: Lindsay Andrus
• Master Lighting Artist: Mimia Arbelaez
• Character Designer: Carlos Baena
• Character Technical Supervisor: Sanjay Bakshi
• Lighting Coordinator: Megan Bartel
• Lighting Director: Nick Bartone
• Shading: Chris Bernardi
• Art Department Manager: Nick Berry
• Master Lighting Artist: Max Bickley
• Lighting Artist: Jeremy Birn
• Animation: Evan Bonifacio
• Animation Department Coordinator: Rodney A. Brillante
• CGI Director: Jacob Brooks
• Animation: Jude Brownbill
• Animation Department Coordinator: Michael Capbarat
• Animation Production Assistant: Ramon Cardona
• Animation Manager: Cathleen Carmean
• Lighting Artist: Mathieu Cassagne
• Character Designer: Jack Chang
• Color Designer: Jennifer Chang
• Fix Animator: Guillaume Chartier
• Animation: Michael Chia-Wei Chen
• Lighting Production Assistant: Johnson Cheng
• Lighting Artist: Ye Won Cho
• Sets & Props Artist: Pamela J. Choy
• Animation: Chris Chua
• CG Painter: Jaehun Chung
• Lighting Manager: Alice Clendenen
• Master Lighting Artist: Justine Codron
• Lighting Artist: Kathleen Cosby
• CG Painter: Trent Crow
• Character Designer: Jason Davies
• Animation: Eric S. Degner
• Master Lighting Artist: Airton Dittz Jr.
• Lead Set Dresser: Nathan Fariss
• Fix Animator: Justin Farris
• Animation: Graham Finley
• Art Direction: Craig Foster
• CG Painter: Sarah Fowler Deluna
• Set Production Intern: Matthew Garcia-Dunn
• Fix Animator: Belen Gil-Palacios
• Fix Animator: Joey Gilbreath
• Lighting Artist: Stefan Gronsky
• Fix Animator: Richard Gunzer
• Character Designer: Christian Haniszewski
• Lead Painter: Alex Harvill
• Lighting Director: Jessica Harvill
• Animation: Aron Hatfield
• Animation: Travis Hathaway
• CG Painter: Jack Hattori
• Character Designer: Bernhard Haux
• Animation: Neil Helm
• CG Painter: Alex Hessler
• Character Designer: Jonathan Hoffman
• Character Designer: Michael Honsel
• Animation: Tsung-Yin Hsieh
• CG Painter: Katherine Ipjian
• Animation: Guilherme Sauerbronn Jacinto
• Character Designer: Jonas Jarvers
• Animation: Rob Jensen
• CG Painter: Yibing Jiang
• CG Painter: Thidaratana Annee Jonjai
• Art Department Coordinator: Judy Yu-Inn Jou
• Layout: Robert Kinkead
• Master Lighting Artist: Mitch Kopelman
• Animation: Aaron Koressel
• Modeling: Ivo Kos
• Modeling: Michael Krummhoefener
• Animation: Bruce Kuei
• Production Intern: Shauna Lacoste
• Set Dressing Artist: Alison Leaf
• Animation: John Chun Chiu Lee
• Animation: Holger Leihe
• Animation: Matt Majers
• Lighting Artist: Emmanuel Maniez
• Character Designer: Tim Milliron
• Animation: Cameron Miyasaki
• Animation: Javier Moya Alonso
• Animation: Juan Carlos Navarro Carrión
• Lighting Artist: Burt Peng
• Layout: Jan Pfenninger
• Master Lighting Artist: Andrew Pienaar
• Character Designer: Mark Piretti
• CG Painter: Kiki Mei Kee Poh
• Animation: Jayson Price
• Animation: Andreas Procopiou
• Art Department Coordinator: Duncan Ramsay
• Lighting Artist: Angelique Reisch
• Master Lighting Artist: Jordan Rempel
• Character Designer: Edward Robbins
• Set Decorating Coordinator: Eric Rosales
• Animation: Nickolas Rosario
• Animation: Amber Rudolph
• Animation: Allison Rutland
• Lighting Artist: Vandana Reddy Sahrawat
• Layout: Leo Santos
• Character Designer: Chris Sasaki
• Fix Animator: Michael Sauls
• Lighting Artist: Julien Schreyer
• Animation: Brett Schulz
• Animation: Stefan Schumacher
• CG Painter: Joshua Seaver
• Master Lighting Artist: David Shavers
• CG Painter: Shalin Shodhan
• Lighting Artist: Philip Shoebottom
• Animation Department Coordinator: David Sokolosky
• Animation: Terry Song
• Lighting Supervisor: Michael Sparber
• Fix Animator: Jane Snow Stewart
• Shading: Megan Stifter
• Animation: Matthew Strangio
• Character Designer: Daniela Strijleva
• Modeling: Joseph Suen
• Lighting Manager: Peter Sumanaseni
• Animation: Raphael Suter
• Character Designer: Jeremie Talbot
• Animation Production Assistant: Elizabeth Thiers
• Character Designer: Brian Tindall
• Animation: Jessica Torres
• CG Animator: Chuck Waite
• Color Designer: Shelly Wan
• Fix Animator: Ricky Wight
• Fix Animator: Alon Winterstein
• Animation: Anthony Ho Wong
• Master Lighting Artist: Maria Yershova
• Animation: Tom Zach
• Lighting Coordinator: Anthony Kemp
• CG Painter: Maria Lee
• Editorial Staff: David Condolora
• Additional Editing: Anna Wolitzky
• Editorial Production Assistant: Adrian Syben
• Editorial Coordinator: Hana Yoon
• Editorial Staff: Christopher Zuber
• Music Director: Andrew Page
• Musician: Steve Schaeffer
• Finance: Megan Albert
• Systems Administrators & Support: Tlaloc Alvarez
• Administration: Allysa Amundson
• Administration: Meghan Benafield
• Finance: Nancy Garretson Case
• Software Engineer: Forrester Cole
• Publicist: Deborah Coleman
• Systems Administrators & Support: J. Darion Cuevas
• Finance: Naomi Davidson
• Finance: Beatrice De Luca
• Systems Administrators & Support: Ricky Der
• Software Engineer: Kurt Fleischer
• Software Engineer: Michael Kass
• Software Engineer: Mark Meyer
• Software Engineer: Jean-Daniel Nahmias
• Production Office Assistant: Susan Eggett
• Software Team Lead: George Elkoura
• Software Team Lead: Michael A. Bordas
• Information Systems Manager: Danielle Cambridge
• Software Team Lead: Ryan Burns
• Software Team Lead: Tony DeRose
• Software Team Lead: F. Sebastian Grassia
• Software Team Lead: Eric Gregory
• Software Team Lead: Jamie Hecker
• Software Team Lead: Tara Hernandez
• Software Team Lead: Hayley Iben
• Software Team Lead: Michael B. Johnson
• Software Team Lead: Brett Levin
• Software Team Lead: Cory Omand
• Software Team Lead: Jack Paulus
• Software Team Lead: Arun Rao
• Software Team Lead: Sarah Shen
• Software Team Lead: Erin Tomson
• Software Team Lead: Dirk Van Gelder
• Software Team Lead: Douglas Waters
• Software Team Lead: Adam Woodbury
• Information Systems Manager: Gregory Finch
• Information Systems Manager: Tamsen Mitchell
• Information Systems Manager: Sowmya Natarajan
• Information Systems Manager: Ozan Serim
• Information Systems Manager: Ottavia Storer
• Information Systems Manager: Benjamin Turman
• Information Systems Manager: David Wehr
• Production Accountant: Emily Engie
• Finance: Rachel Ergas
• Systems Administrators & Support: Tyler Fazakerley
• Administration: Heather Feng
• Finance: Kristi Gamble
• Publicist: Briana Gardner
• Finance: Timothy Glass
• Finance: Jeanie Gray
• Systems Administrators & Support: Robert Hamrick
• Finance: Valerie Hathaway
• Finance: Kentaro Hinoki
• Production Office Assistant: Jonathan Hurwitz
• Finance: Heather D.C. Jackson
• Systems Administrators & Support: Michael Stewart Johnson
• Systems Administrators & Support: Cory Knox
• Systems Administrators & Support: Chris Lasell
• Systems Administrators & Support: Warren Latimer
• Systems Administrators & Support: Joanna Laurent
• Systems Administrators & Support: Leslie Law
• Administration: Danielle Rae Levin
• Systems Administrators & Support: Matthew Lindahl
• Production Accountant: Michelle Liu Chung
• Systems Administrators & Support: Jeremiah Macias
• Opening/Ending Animation: Jason Merck
• Administration: Michelle Moretta
• Systems Administrators & Support: Terry Lee Moseley
• Finance: Kacy Naylor
• Finance: Rosana Neciuk
• Administration: Tanya Oskanian
• Software Engineer: André Pang
• Administration: Lara Pendleton
• Systems Administrators & Support: Peter Plackowski
• Systems Administrators & Support: Steven Ricks
• Systems Administrators & Support: Benjamin Rillie
• Production Office Assistant: Jenni Rowland
• Finance: Kristina Ruud
• Software Engineer: Laura Savidge
• Finance: Michelle Simons
• Publicist: Hasia Sroat
• Administration: Wendy Dale Tanzillo
• Finance: Shari Villarde
• Finance: Deana Walker
• Systems Administrators & Support: Jessica Wan
• Finance: Annette Wang
• Systems Administrators & Support: Ian Westcott

Movie Reviews:

• Gimly: Monsters University, it’s great, it’s the best thing Pixar’s brought out in the past three years leading up to it. It’s enjoyable, it’s well casted and it’s cute without being too cheesy. It’s also the third miss in a row for Pixar.

  MU, just like Brave (and unlike Cars 2) is filled with merit, and well worth watching. But in 1995 when Pixar came out swinging with Toy Story, people expect that sort of a trend to continue. Which it did! Right up until 2006, when they released their seventh film (Cars); the first film they’d gotten behind that didn’t blow audiences world wide out of the Goddamn water. Pixar’s limped up and down the approval ladder ever since, with MU sitting comfortably somewhere in the middle.

  It is a great film. Especially for a kids’ film, especially for a prequel, all of that, but it is not the return to greatness audiences keep hoping for. It plays it safe, it lulls in the dreary, rarely well-pulled-off format of “College Comedy” (which is again, a safe area to sit in). It may not be as triumphant as the original, but it’s not all together disappointing either.
  The film does what virtually any film with large amount of money behind it does: It stands in front of you for an hour and a half, does its job in the entertainment industry of “entertaining” you, then it sidles out, leaving you smiling, but not thoroughly satisfied. It takes as few risks as possible, and vehemently avoids anything new, just in case it pisses people off, and risks not making their money back.

  It’s fine, people of the world are used to this, it’s a fun ride, and then it’s done. Worth your money, worth your time, but not what people have come to expect from the powerhouse of Pixar’s heyday.

  74%

  -Gimly

• r96sk: A fun prequel to ‘Monsters, Inc.’.

  It isn’t on the same level as the preceding film, but ‘Monsters University’ is a pleasing film nonetheless. It takes a trip backwards in time to see Mike and Sully pre-Inc. and it comes out good, it doesn’t have as much as heart but the comedy is still there at a strong level.

  John Goodman (Sully) and Billy Crystal (Mike) are again fantastic, while Helen Mirren comes in as a new character, Hardscrabble, and gives a pleasant performance. I don’t love the other new characters, but they certainly serve a purpose and play a part.

  The plot is entertaining, it drops a little bit once the competition begins but everything is still enjoyable – the 104 minute run time flies by. I think I would’ve preferred a sequel story featuring a grown up Boo (admittedly not sure in what way), but this production is a suitable attachment to the quality 2001 original.

• John: This is a great movie. The quality of animation is amazing, and they captured the University feel perfectly. Lots of fun little scenes, backgrounds, and homages to the original movie.