Monsters University [better]

We watch a time-lapse of them working nights, getting promoted to janitors, then to floor loaders, slowly, painfully learning the craft of scaring from the ground up. Years later, they finally earn their spots as the legendary team we met in the first film.

For a moment, the film allows its hero to shatter. Mike looks at himself—really looks—and understands that no amount of study or desire can overcome his physiological limitations. He will never be a scarer. The dream is dead. Monsters University

Sulley enters MU with a famous last name and natural talent. He’s the opposite of Mike —lazy, entitled, and reliant on his roar rather than his research. Their clashing personalities drive the first half of the film, culminating in a rivalry that eventually gets them both kicked out of the elite Scaring Program by the formidable . Oozma Kappa and the Scare Games We watch a time-lapse of them working nights,

Most prequels cheat. They show you the origin of the catchphrase or the scar. But pulls a rug so radical that it left audiences stunned in 2013. Sulley enters MU with a famous last name and natural talent

In any other movie, there would be a last-second reprieve. The Dean would see the error of her ways. Instead, Mike and Sulley are thrown out of with no degree. They are failures.