Monsters University is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed by Dan Scanlon in his feature film debut and produced by Kori Rae, with John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich as executive producers. The music for the film was composed by Randy Newman, making it his seventh collaboration with Pixar. It is a prequel to Monsters, Inc. (2001), making it the first, and currently, only time Pixar has made a prequel film. Monsters University tells the story of two monsters, Mike and Sulley, and their time studying at college, where they start off as rivals, but slowly become best friends. John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, Bob Peterson, and John Ratzenberger reprise their roles as James P. Sullivan, Mike Wazowski, Randall Boggs, Roz, and the Abominable Snowman, respectively. Bonnie Hunt, who voiced Ms. Flint in the first film, voices Mike's grade school teacher Ms. Karen Graves.
Disney, as the rights holder, had plans for a sequel to Monsters, Inc. since 2005. Following disagreements with Pixar, Disney tasked its Circle 7 Animation unit to make the film. An early draft of the film was developed; however, Disney's purchase of Pixar in early 2006 led to the cancellation of Circle 7's version of the film. A Pixar-made sequel was confirmed in 2010, and in 2011, it was confirmed that the film would instead be a prequel titled Monsters University.
Monsters University premiered on June 5, 2013 at the BFI Southbank in London, England, and was theatrically released on June 21, 2013, in the United States. It was accompanied in theaters by a short film, The Blue Umbrella, directed by Saschka Unseld. The film received positive reviews from the critics and grossed $744 million against its estimated budget of $200 million, making it the seventh highest-grossing film of 2013. An animated short film titled Party Central, which takes place shortly after the events of Monsters University, premiered in fall 2013 before being released theatrically with Muppets Most Wanted in 2014.
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Mike Wazowski | Billy Crystal | Ándres Bustamante | Yûji Tanaka | Sérgio Stern | Alain Zouvi | Ilja Richter | Éric Métayer | Sandro Acerbo | Wojciech Paszkowski | Kasper van Kooten | László Lippai | Johan Ulveson | Antti Pääkkönen | Åsleik Engmark | José Mota | João Baião | Lee Inseong | Gilad Kletter | Ziya Kürküt | |
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James Sullivan | John Goodman | Víctor Trujillo | Hidehiko Ishizuka | Mauro Ramos | Patrick Chouinard | Reinhard Brock | Xavier Fagnon | Saverio Indrio | Paweł Sanakiewicz | Jack Wouterse | Gesztesi Károly | Allan Svensson | Jussi Lampi | Even Stormoen | Santiago Segura | Fernando Luis | Kim Jin-Tae | Ohad Shachar | Kerem Atabeyoğlu | |
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Randy Boggs | Steve Buscemi | Moisés Palacios | Yutaka Aoyama | Márcio Simões | Pierre Auger | Tim Sander | Jérémy Prévost | Luca Dal Fabbro | Sławomir Pacek | Laus Steenbeeke | Rajkai Zoltán | Jan Mybrand | Taisto Oksanen | Dennis Storhøi | MiguelÁngel Montero | Paulo Oom | Kim Yik-Tae | Dor Zweigenbom | AliEkber Diribaş | |
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Dean Hardscrabble | Helen Mirren | Rebeca Manríquez | Miro Hitosuyanagi | Mariangela Cantú | Catherine Deneuve | Kerstin SandersDornseif | Catherine Deneuve | Rita Savagnone | Danuta Stenka | Beppie Melissen | Kubik Anna | Marie Richardson | Heidi Herala | BirgitteVictoria Svendsen | Mayte Torres | Rita Alagão | Lee JinHwa | Yael Amit | ||
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Squishy Squibbles | Peter Sohn | Ramón Bazet | Shohei Shimada | Duda Espinoza | Hugolin ChevretteLandesque | Axel Stein | Malik Bentalha | Gabriel Patriarca | Artur Barciś | Pepijn Gunneweg | Elek Ferenc | Jorge Saudinós | Alexandre Carvalho | Arda Aydın | ||||||
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Don Carlton | Joel Murray | Carlos del Campo | Katsuhisa Hôki | Samir Murad | Louis-Georges Girard | Lutz Schnell | JeanClaude Donda | Marco Mete | Sylwester Maciejewski | Mark Rietman | Besenczi Árpád | Fernando De Luis | José Raposo | Engin Alkan | ||||||
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Terri Perry | Sean Hayes | Moisés Iván Mora | Setsuji Sato | Marcos Souza | Sébastien Dhavernas | Axel Malzacher | Donald Reignoux | Francesco Mandelli | Paweł Ciołkosz | Richard Kemper | Csőre Gábor | Javier Balas | Rui Luís Brás | Sharon Cohen | Sercan Gidişoğlu | |||||
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Terry Perry | Dave Foley | Jesús Guzmán | Eiji Hanawa | Sérgio Cantú | Gilbert Lachance | Dennis Schmidt-Foß | Emmanuel Garijo | Fabrizio Biggio | Mateusz Weber | Remco Veldhuis | Fesztbaum Béla | Artur Palomo | Peter Michael | Sercan Gidişoğlu | ||||||
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Art | Charlie Day | Raymundo Armijo | Keiji Himeno | Léo Martins | Georges Saint-Pierre | Elyas M'Barek | Jamel Debbouze | Paolo Vivio | Eryk Lubos | Frans van Deursen | Scherer Péter | Ricardo Escobar | Bruno Ferreira | Naci Taşdöğen | ||||||
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Professor Knight | Alfred Molina | Gabriel Pingarrón | Akihiko Ishizumi | Reinaldo Pimenta | Manuel Tadros | Bernd Rumpf | Michel Papineschi | Stefano De Sando | Andrzej Blumenfeld | Jan Nonhof | Harsányi Gábor | Torsten Wahlund | Pertti Sveholm | Kalle Øby | Carlos Kaniowsky | André Gago | Yu HaeMoo | Albert Cohen | Ender Yiğit | |
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Johnny WorthingtonIII | Nathan Fillion | JoséGilberto Vilchis | Hiroki Tôchi | Ricardo Juarez | Tristan Harvey | Michael Lott | Alexis Victor | Marco Foschi | Piotr Grabowski | Paul Disbergen | Király Attila | Iván Muelas | Romeu Vala | Saar Badishi | ||||||
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Claire Wheeler | Aubrey Plaza | Erika Ugalde | Kanako Tojo | Adriana Torres | Ariane-Le Simard Côté | Katrin Zimmermann | Edwige Lemoine | Francesca Manicone | Marta Dobecka | Sanne WallisdeVries | Silvia Sarmentera | Joana Freixo | Aysun Topar | |||||||
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Brock Pearson | Tyler Labine | Gerardo Vásquez | Kenta Miyake | Ricardo Telles | Alexandre Fortin | Olaf Reichmann | Jeremie Covillault | Stefano Alessandroni | Frans Limburg | Péter Bozsó | Adam Fietz | Roberto Encinas | João Craveiro | |||||||
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Chet Alexander | Bobby Moynihan | JoséAntonio Macías | Hideki Tanaka | Fernando Mendonça | Maël Davan-Soulas | Hans Hohlbein | David Krüger | Corrado Conforti | Piotr Piksa | Gerard Ekdom | Görög László | Pablo Tribaldos | Rui Paulo | Seong Un Sa | Sharon Cohen | Murat Şenol | ||||
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Mike (Young) | Noah Johnston | Matías QuintanaOrtíz | Kazuta Sato | Mattheus Caliano | Gabriel Bissonnette | Pablo Ribet-Buse | Georges de Vitis | Lorenzo D'Agata | Jakub Jankiewicz | Valentijn Banga | Straub Martin | Knut SjöbergBrise | Olof Hilmar WidgrenIversen | Gabriel Sánchez | José Antunes | Eom TaeJun | Almond Percy | |||
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Ms. Squibbles | Julia Sweeney | Norma Iturbe | Mami Horikoshi | Aline Ghezzi | Manon Leblanc | Almut Zydra | Catherine Davenier | Lorenza Biella | Anna Apostolakis | Karin Bloemen | Kiss Erika | Raquel Cubillo | Lusía Salgueiro | |||||||
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Mrs. Grave | Bonnie Hunt | Erika Rendón | Kanako Yanagihara | Márcia Morelli | Susanne von Medvey | Gio' Gio' Rapattoni | Ewa Kania | Hymke de Vries | Kocsis Mariann | Gemma Martín | Tânia RibasdeOliveira | |||||||||
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Frank McCay | John Krasinski | Carlo Vázquez | Fuminori Komatsu | Renan Freitas | Maël Davan-Soulas | Manuyel Neuer | Adrien Antoine | Stefano Mondini | Waldemar Barwinski | Jeroen Keers | Lux Ádám | Juan Logar Jr. | Carlos Freixo | Amos Shov | ||||||
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Referee | Bill Hader | Roberto Carrillo | Yōhei Tadano | Guto Nejaim | Paul Sarrasin | Raimund Krone | Matthieu Albertini | Massimiliano Plinio | Leo Richardson | Láng Balázs | Rui Andrade | |||||||||
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Carrie Williams | Beth Behrs | Graciela Gámez | Airi Otsu | Fabiana Aveiro | Eloisa Cervantes | Elke Appelt | Laëtitia Coryn | Martina Stoessel | Agata Góral | Fleur van de Water | María Blanco | Ana Vieira | ||||||||
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Slug | Bill Hader | José Antonio Macías | Masashi Tamaki | Léo Rabelo | Pierre-Étienne Rouillard | Jacob Weigert | Julien Alluguette | Giel Beelen | Láng Balázs | Christoffer Staib | Javier Lorca | Carlos Freixo | Gilan Shahaf | |||||||
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Roz | Bob Peterson | Humberto Vélez | Masako Isobe | Manolo Rey | Johanne Garneau | Luise Lunow | Isabelle Leprince | Loretta Goggi | Krystyna RutkowskaUlewicz | Nelly Frijda | Pásztor Erzsi | Ewa Fröling | Inkeri Wallenius | Kjersti Fjeldstad | Mar SánchezGatell | Maria Vieira | Jo Jin-Suk | |||
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Yeti | John Ratzenberger | Ricardo Brust | Fumihiko Tachiki | Cláudio Galvan | Daniel Picard | Walter von Hauff | Frédéric Norbert | Renato Cecchetto | Krzysztof Stelmaszyk | Frans van Deursen | Faragó András | Héctor Garay | Rui Paulo | Simcha Barbiro | ||||||
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Big Red | John Cygan | Alejandro Mayén | Duda Ribeiro | Mario Bombardieri | Leo Richardson | Juan Carlos Lozano | Gadi Levy | |||||||||||||
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Trenton Hicks | Jess Harnell | Leonardo García | ||||||||||||||||||
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Bus Driver | Lori Alan | Liliana Barba | Keiko Sugiura | Gisela Fritsch | Barbara Zielińska | Maria Lindes | ||||||||||||||
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Emmet | Mona Marshall | Ferrán Uribe | ||||||||||||||||||
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Improv Club Monster | Dan Scanlon | Ricardo Méndez | Gianni Giuliano | Guido Spek | Pilar Gentil | |||||||||||||||
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Librarian | Marcia Wallace | Joana Brito | Pilar Gentil | |||||||||||||||||
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Hank Knapp | Peter Sohn | Alejandro Mayén | FranciscoJavier Martínez | |||||||||||||||||
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Jay | Miguel Ángel Ruiz | Ken'ichi Hoshino | Jean-Michel Vaubien | Bartosz Martyna | Trond Teigen | Blanca (Neri) Hualde | ||||||||||||||
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Fey | Colleen O'Shaughnessey | Romina MarroquínPayró | Rikako Aikawa | Sylvia Salustti | Giulia Greco | Maria Camões | ||||||||||||||
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Kay | Cecilia Gómez | Zina Khakhoulia | Lia Gotti | Ana Vieira | ||||||||||||||||
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Trey | Ricardo Bautista | Rayūnosuke Watanuki | ||||||||||||||||||
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Professor Brandywine | Bill Farmer | César Árias | Paolo Buglioni | Eduardo del Hoyo | ||||||||||||||||
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Britney Davis | Beth Behrs | |||||||||||||||||||
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Crystal Du Bois | Beth Behrs | Cristina Yuste | ||||||||||||||||||
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Heather Olson | Beth Behrs | |||||||||||||||||||
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Naomi Jackson | Beth Behrs | |||||||||||||||||||
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Taylor Holbrook | Beth Behrs | |||||||||||||||||||
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Carla Delgado | Tara Strong | |||||||||||||||||||
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Brynn Larson | Tara Strong | |||||||||||||||||||
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Donna Soohoo | Tara Strong | |||||||||||||||||||
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Rosie Levin | Colleen O'Shaughnessey | Gabriella Bicalho | Milagros Fernández | |||||||||||||||||
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Javier Rios | Jess Harnell | Jim Redler | ||||||||||||||||||
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Percy Boleslaw | Jess Harnell | |||||||||||||||||||
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Ranger 1 | Luis Alfonso Mendoza | |||||||||||||||||||
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Ranger 2 | Idzi Dutkiewicz | |||||||||||||||||||
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Ranger 3 | Ricardo Mendoza | |||||||||||||||||||
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Ranger 4 | Luis Alfonso Mendoza | |||||||||||||||||||
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Female Ranger | Colleen O'Shaughnessey | Kerygma Flores | ||||||||||||||||||
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