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Watch The First Teaser For Pixar's "Monsters University"
Pixar's latest movie Brave hasn't even come out yet (two more days till the 1,500 red curls come out!) and already the CGI wizards at Disney have gone and gotten us excited for their next next big thing—the Monsters Inc. prequel Monsters University (out next summer). All it took was a wee bit of "gleww" and a few shards of mirror, a light and we were sold.
But apparently the Mouse House was worried it wouldn't be that easy, because they went and released not one, not two, but four (!) slightly different teaser trailers for the flick, which tells the story of the first movie's lovable monsters, Mike and Sulley, back in their college days. No word on how many of the party monsters in the teasers are going to be moving back into their parent's dungeon's basements after graduation—but somehow we suspect Pixar isn't going to leave low-hanging topical joke fruit like that on the vine.
Here's our favorite one of the teasers (they are all pretty similar). Need to see them all? Click here.
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