Monster's University Deleted Scenes?

[mintygreen]

I watched them all and too bad none had Randall. The theater class ones were totally hilarious though.

[pitbulllady]

I just got through watching them as well...had to go out and buy a new Blu-Ray player though, since my old one "died". No Randall, not even a mention of him, other than the same pics we saw in the "Art of MU" book. Terri seemed to have been one of those people who went through "phases", he went from Goth to "hipster" to plain old Terri, all in like, the course of a week, much to his brother's chagrin! One of the funniest deleted scenes was the one that they were originally going to use, showing Mike and Sulley meeting up in elementary school, to explain away that "you've been jealous of my good looks since fourth grade, pal" comment from the original movie. Sulley was an awkward, shy, bumbling kid and Mike was a very pushy little **** that got in everyone's business and whom no one liked(duh!), who was also a bit of a bully. He and Sulley fought, and I mean literally fought, pretty much all the way up through seventh grade, when Mike and his family moved away. Scanlon decided just to drop that whole scene, and go with Mike's comment in the original having been a hyperbole, because it just got too tedious trying to decide how long Mike and Sulley would have known each other, whether they would have hated each other from the start as kids, and all that.
Probably the best part of the Extras, though, was showing how Pixar came up with the current concept for Dean Hardscrabble, after the decision by Scanlon to make her female. He wanted a design that would be graceful and elegant, yet terrifying at the same time, and someone suggested a centipede, so they had the Berkley Aquarium bring in a real live Peruvian Giant Centipede, and we get to see it biting the forceps the guy is using to pick it up, see those fangs in action, see it eating and rearing up in a threat pose. Suffice it to say, that if you're easily creeped out by things like that, you might want to skip that part!
Overall, though, I was kinda disappointed in the Extras. There are no gag reel, no bloopers, not even any fully animated scenes that didn't make the final cut, and very little about the characters and their personalities. Most of it was technical and artistic stuff, how they came up with the background designs, the buildings, trees, and all that. No interactive games or anything like what was on the DVD for MI. I guess I can watch the actual movie tomorrow, with and without the commentary, and see what insight the Pixar folks can give for some of the characters that way.

pitbulllady

[luvrandall2]

I got the Blu-Ray/DVD for Christmas, and I haven't had the chance to check out the Blu-Ray cuz I've not been alone, but tomorrow I'll have to remind myself to put in the Blu-Ray and do the bonus features.