I just watched "Monsters University"

And must say I was a little disappointed... or maybe even really disappointed.

It's a prequel to one of my favorite Disney movies, "Monsters Inc", which came out in 2001. It gives the backstory of how Mike and Sully became unlikely friends in college and how Randall became their nemesis. There was a lot of comedic references to college life, with the producers obviously trying to reconnect with viewers of the original movie, 12 years older after the release of the film.

But despite all the humor, I felt the movie's message was entirely skewed.

[Spoiler Alert: I'm going to talk about details of the movie here, and reveal the ending... so beware]

To give a brief summary, Mike and Sully show up to scaring class and it becomes clear that Mike, although not intrinsically scary, truly wants to be a scarer, and is committed to studying, while Sully, son of a famous scarer, feels as though he can ride off the merit and his scary disposition.

After being kicked out of the program after failing their semester finals for not being scary and not trying hard enough, respectively, Mike and Sully grudgingly join Oozma Kappa, a fraternity made up of misfits, in order to enter the Scare Games, a competition that, should they win, would allow them to rejoin the program. So they begin to work together and figure out how to outsmart the Roar Omega Roar team.

After an incredible show of spirit, OK makes it to the final round, and has to duke it out with ROR in the simulator. In the final matchup, Mike goes in last, needing a record-breaking scream to win. He goes in and tries his best, and the child's scream puts OK in first place and the underdogs win the Scare Games.

And all is well, until Mike finds out that Sully rigged the simulation so that Mike's scare registered as scarier than it actually was. Sully turned himself in, then there was a lot of action and some people (real people, not monsters) involved and drama. By the end, it turned out that both of them were kicked out of school, and get involved with Monsters Incorporated, where Sully later becomes a top scarer and Mike his coach.

So, really, putting it all into perspective, it sends two sort of skewed messages: that you don't have to go to college (which, while it is true, is becoming increasingly less so as time goes on and jobs become more specialized), and that if you commit to something entirely and work for it, like Mike did, it may not work out, because you just weren't cut out for it (which is demoralizing, to me).

All in all, just not what I think Disney movies should portray.