Animated Movies - "Monsters University" Is Surprising and "Paprika" Is Beautiful

Monsters University (2013)

With the extremely poor critical reception of "Cars 2" (which I haven't seen) and the ho-hum response from general viewers to "Brave" (which I thought was underrated), Pixar's reputation has taken a hit over the last couple of years. "Monsters Inc." had never been one of my favourite Pixar movies, but I was still prepared to be open-minded about this attempt at a prequel. That is, until I saw the teaser trailer featuring Sully (the big blue furry one) bullying Mike (the green one-eyed one) by using him as a makeshift disco ball. I was entirely unamused and felt this did not bode well at all.


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Paprika (2006)

I made a post early last year about my favourite anime movies and asking other people for their favourites. I was given a number of recommendations, none of which I've really been able to follow up on just yet, but I DID check out "Paprika".


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