Monsters University

I think this was a great movie! The characters are funny and sweet, even one of the villains at first. I saw this movie a long time ago and freaked out when I saw the fake kids but other than that it’s good. I recommend it. Everyone is freaking out about kissing but no one cares about Anna kissing Kristoff in Frozen, which is weird. Very dumb. My dad said it was a perfect movie and I agree. Good job, Pixar!

This is one of the few movies that has so little in it that you could definitely show it to your younger children. I'm going to break it down by important characters so you can decide if age 5 works (4 might work too, but I respect the whole 6/7+ thing, my child was never afraid of monsters, he knew it was make-believe when he watched the first movie at 4, and he never went to sleep alone and his room is pitch black so there's no shadows, so he never became afraid). MIKE: He's very hardworking but his hard work doesn't always pay off, and he can be quite controlling and sure of himself until the end; he does organize an illegal activity though, which is concerning and done for laughs SULLY: Also sure of himself and starts out joining the bullies and stealing the rival school's mascot, he lies at one point and does everything to make it up later, and does a great job of turning humble THE FRATERNITY BROTHERS: Very optimistic and mostly gentle almost feminine characters (although one hits people with a board during a scene, he might have been spanking them), one of them is a hippie and we find out that he has a life in the sewers and has been in prison before--he is studying new age philosophy, the other falls in love with one of the frat boy's mom (he is a older student)--these character quirks are played for laughs and diversity, so make of them what you will. When they realize cheating takes place they immediately drop their reward. We keep seeing in the movie that cheaters don't prosper and the importance of teamwork THE RIVAL FRATERNITIES/SOROITIES: One of them says they will rip the main character's fraternity to peices, another one hazes them with paint. They're fairly diverse, ranging in personality from jocks to goths. The bad guy's fraternity is very manipulative, using their hazing opportunity to raise money for charity and then making the main characters out like they don't like charity OTHER CHARACTERS: The mom is a coddling and grandma-ish lady, although she does have a thing for heavy metal music (played once to be ironic), the dean of the school is not very open-minded until the end, she's supposed to be a little scary because that's what she's good at (becoming a professional scarer is the whole point of Monsters, so don't be surprised when there's a major scare scene setup meant to harvest screams from a children's camp). MESSAGE: Some people aren't just cut out for things and telling the truth won't get you rewarded (yeah, it's not a super motivating message), but there's always another way to succeed. There's some good role models and messages but not without controversy, so I couldn't click on it. I added educational value for teaching children about how colleges work. P.S. I heard no swearing (maybe slang--but they aren't real swear words), saw no drugs (that was a pretty clean intro to a college party), and there's no inappropriate relationships. Here's a good rule, if you only see one person mention it, it probably was misinterpreted.