Post by pitbulllady on Mar 21, 2014 22:27:10 GMT -5
Had to fork over $10.00 and drive half an hour, one way, to see it, since none of the nearby theaters were showing Muppets Most Wanted, and I can understand why. I have nothing against the Muppets; used to watch their show and laugh my butt off, but seriously? It was not funny at all. The only good part was seeing Tom Hiddleston in his underwear("long johns"), but then he gets Tazed. Most of it was just spoofing their previous movies, their tv show, and "Sesame Street". If I hadn't had to pay so much to get in, I'd have gotten up and left, seriously.
NOW onto Party Central! I simply CANNOT say how much I LOVED this short! This is by far the best animated short that Pixar has ever made, bar none! I will provide spoilers below, but first I will answer that burning questions that's on everyone's mind, two of 'em, actually.
There is NO sign of Randall. NONE. He's not seen, not even in the background,although I do admit that there is a LOT going on in the background, including some monster guys and gals making out and dirty dancing, and I'm not joking when I say I can see how it got a PG-13 rating! This is a PAR-TAY! But I digress...no Randall, not even a mention of Randall, which absolutely confirms that he was indeed kicked out of ROR and probably left MU following the Scare Games, either that or he's just become a recluse, hiding out in shame until he can graduate. Unless someone spots him in the screen caps once they are put up on the Disney-Pixar screen cap site, I think it's a very safe bet that at this point, Randall was a no-show, and that really does support everything we've said all along.
Second question that probably some are wondering: Yes, Johnny Worthington gets some Karma coming to him. It's not really bad, not like he gets hurt or publicly humiliated or anything like that, but it would have sucked to be Johnny, let's put it that way. Johnny learns some bitter truth about his so-called friends and followers, and THAT is also something I've stated on here, too, that Johnny had no real friends at all. For all his arrogance and lofty name, he's just as alone in the world as Randall is, maybe worse, because I don't think Randall had to worry about telling his famous, rich, powerful father about how things fell apart, and Johnny does. I would really, really not want to be in his place when he has to tell John-John about what happens. I suspect that has something to do with why Johnny worked for Fear Co., instead of MI, and doesn't flaunt that "III" suffix after his name anymore.
OK, everything from here on out is spoiler territory, so if you don't want to read it, don't clickee!
Alright...the time line. This apparently takes place NOT at the end of final term that we see in MU, but the following fall semester, during Rush Week. Mike and Sulley have been working several months at MI in the mail room now. I was a bit surprised to learn this, considering that Johnny IS in the short, albeit for only about 5 seconds, given that he was a senior in MU and should have graduated, but then, he DOES state in his interview for the school paper that he was considering staying on another semester or so to earn his Masters degree. Apparently he did do just that. The short starts out at the annual ROR Rush party, where everyone is going buck-wild and there is literally girls dancing in tubs of beer outside. Yeah, it's THAT kind of party. Apparently someone complained that the parties in MU were too tame by college standards, so Pixar really took some risks here and pushed that envelope. The soundtrack is AWESOME! If you are an old-skool Head-banger, you will LOVE the soundtrack! I WANT the soundtrack to Party Central! I couldn't even catch who the bands were in the credits, though, but the music was so much more ROCK than in MU!
Anyway, it cuts from the ROR party to the OK house, where things are not so lively. That's the clip we've all seen online, where Mike and Sulley show up with a door station that they STOLE from Monsters, Inc.(and yet we're supposed to still believe that Randall and Johnny are the "bad guys"?), and they set up a "door jam", which basically involved going through the Human World to connect two points in the Monster World, in this case the OK house and the ROR house...ah, gotta love wormhole technology! Using that door station and "door jamming", Sulley and Art take turns luring the party-goers over at the ROR house through the door on the ROR side, through the bedroom of that human couple(and no, they are not Boo's parents, just a random couple), and into the OK house, where the beer and energy drinks are flowing, the music is pumping, and things are getting seriously wild. One by one, group by group, both the party guests AND the ROR's themselves are lured over, including Chet, who apparently will go with anyone who has FOOD. If you feed Chet, you have his undivided loyalty, and of course Sulley, Art and now some of the former ROR party guests also steal all the food, which was a very impressive spread that must have set Johnny back a few grand at least.
Things REALLY get interesting when Sheri Squibbles, who apparently has been away shopping and didn't know that her son was throwing a party, walks in to see her son TWERKING on top of a coffee table, surrounded by more Red Solo Cups than I've seen at most NASCAR races, and slapping his butt! There are hundreds of people in her house and the place looks like a riot scene and sounds like a Motley Crue concert. Initially, she is shocked and yells at Scott about what DOES he think he's doing...and then she realizes that there is a door station present. She figures out how all those party goers got there, and Sheri knows a thing or two about door jammin'! It is at this point that we learn that Sheri Squibbles walks a fine line between being the Coolest Mom Ever and being bat guano crazy. She grabs a loaded Scream canister, and climbs on TOP OF THE HOUSE, then releases the safety valve on it, points it at a pile of tree limbs and trash that has collected in the front yard, and sets off a huge explosion, setting fire to the debris while everyone goes crazy and the the Heavy Metal cranks up to 11! She uses another Scream Canister like a jet pack to fly in between doors.
Now, all this time, this poor human couple has had all these monsters trepsing through their room. The wife first accuses her husband of snoring and talking in his sleep, gets pretty angry when Percy Boleslaw, who is going through their room at the time after being told by Art that his girlfriend is fooling around with some other guy and is calling out the girl's name LOUDLY as he runs through the room, making the wife think that her hubby is calling out the name of another woman in his sleep, lol. As the party on the OK side of the closet door gets rowdier and louder, the noises filter through, alarming the wife, who makes her husband get up to go check the closet. Just as he opens the door, that's when Sheri sets off that explosion and fire, and what he sees looks like a vision from Dante's Inferno: bizarre, demonic-looking creatures dancing in front of a backdrop of hellish flames! In terror, the couple grabs their pillows and things, and the short actually ends with them going into their kid's room and, in a reversal of the normal roles, begging their little son to let them sleep with him because there are MONSTERS in their closet, to which the kid replies, "THAT'S what I've been trying to TELL YOU!" This was a party like the ones I remember from college!
Anyway, back to what happens with Johnny. He's been unseen all this time, presumably taking care of some other business, and after everyone has left the ROR house, he comes strutting in yelling, "LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED", making a grand entrance...only he announces this to an empty building. He is literally the only one left in the place, though I guess that the OK's would have managed to grab him, too, had he been present. Now, it's just echoing silence, broken by the sound of a single Red Solo Cup falling off onto the floor, while Johnny stands there totally flummoxed, looking like some big dog somebody abandoned by the side of the road. Not only that, but at the OK house, HIS OWN FRAT MEMBERS LITERALLY DO ABANDON HIM; they actually all agree to pledge to OK and LEAVE ROR, basically giving Johnny a bitter taste of his own medicine, abandoning HIM when they find something better and he is no longer useful to THEM...just as HE abandoned and rejected someone else at the end of the previous school term. It showed clearly that all this time, Johnny had had followers, hangers-on, those who associated with him because of his family name and tough image, but that not ONE of them, not even fanboy Chet, actually gave a rat's rectum about Johnny as a PERSON. He literally had NO ONE. He'd thrown out the ONE guy who probably would have happily been his friend IF Johnny had treated him like something other than an object, and now the truth is revealed about just what everyone really thought about him. Now he's got to explain to his dad how he lost his entire fraternity, how everyone just up and left him, either that or he's gonna have to suck up what tattered shreds of his pride are left and make his way over to the OK house and plead to be included in the fun. Like I said, I would really hate to be Johnny in this short, but I can't say that he didn't have it coming, either. That old female dog called Karma made her presence known for sure.
pitbulllady
NOW onto Party Central! I simply CANNOT say how much I LOVED this short! This is by far the best animated short that Pixar has ever made, bar none! I will provide spoilers below, but first I will answer that burning questions that's on everyone's mind, two of 'em, actually.
There is NO sign of Randall. NONE. He's not seen, not even in the background,although I do admit that there is a LOT going on in the background, including some monster guys and gals making out and dirty dancing, and I'm not joking when I say I can see how it got a PG-13 rating! This is a PAR-TAY! But I digress...no Randall, not even a mention of Randall, which absolutely confirms that he was indeed kicked out of ROR and probably left MU following the Scare Games, either that or he's just become a recluse, hiding out in shame until he can graduate. Unless someone spots him in the screen caps once they are put up on the Disney-Pixar screen cap site, I think it's a very safe bet that at this point, Randall was a no-show, and that really does support everything we've said all along.
Second question that probably some are wondering: Yes, Johnny Worthington gets some Karma coming to him. It's not really bad, not like he gets hurt or publicly humiliated or anything like that, but it would have sucked to be Johnny, let's put it that way. Johnny learns some bitter truth about his so-called friends and followers, and THAT is also something I've stated on here, too, that Johnny had no real friends at all. For all his arrogance and lofty name, he's just as alone in the world as Randall is, maybe worse, because I don't think Randall had to worry about telling his famous, rich, powerful father about how things fell apart, and Johnny does. I would really, really not want to be in his place when he has to tell John-John about what happens. I suspect that has something to do with why Johnny worked for Fear Co., instead of MI, and doesn't flaunt that "III" suffix after his name anymore.
OK, everything from here on out is spoiler territory, so if you don't want to read it, don't clickee!
Alright...the time line. This apparently takes place NOT at the end of final term that we see in MU, but the following fall semester, during Rush Week. Mike and Sulley have been working several months at MI in the mail room now. I was a bit surprised to learn this, considering that Johnny IS in the short, albeit for only about 5 seconds, given that he was a senior in MU and should have graduated, but then, he DOES state in his interview for the school paper that he was considering staying on another semester or so to earn his Masters degree. Apparently he did do just that. The short starts out at the annual ROR Rush party, where everyone is going buck-wild and there is literally girls dancing in tubs of beer outside. Yeah, it's THAT kind of party. Apparently someone complained that the parties in MU were too tame by college standards, so Pixar really took some risks here and pushed that envelope. The soundtrack is AWESOME! If you are an old-skool Head-banger, you will LOVE the soundtrack! I WANT the soundtrack to Party Central! I couldn't even catch who the bands were in the credits, though, but the music was so much more ROCK than in MU!
Anyway, it cuts from the ROR party to the OK house, where things are not so lively. That's the clip we've all seen online, where Mike and Sulley show up with a door station that they STOLE from Monsters, Inc.(and yet we're supposed to still believe that Randall and Johnny are the "bad guys"?), and they set up a "door jam", which basically involved going through the Human World to connect two points in the Monster World, in this case the OK house and the ROR house...ah, gotta love wormhole technology! Using that door station and "door jamming", Sulley and Art take turns luring the party-goers over at the ROR house through the door on the ROR side, through the bedroom of that human couple(and no, they are not Boo's parents, just a random couple), and into the OK house, where the beer and energy drinks are flowing, the music is pumping, and things are getting seriously wild. One by one, group by group, both the party guests AND the ROR's themselves are lured over, including Chet, who apparently will go with anyone who has FOOD. If you feed Chet, you have his undivided loyalty, and of course Sulley, Art and now some of the former ROR party guests also steal all the food, which was a very impressive spread that must have set Johnny back a few grand at least.
Things REALLY get interesting when Sheri Squibbles, who apparently has been away shopping and didn't know that her son was throwing a party, walks in to see her son TWERKING on top of a coffee table, surrounded by more Red Solo Cups than I've seen at most NASCAR races, and slapping his butt! There are hundreds of people in her house and the place looks like a riot scene and sounds like a Motley Crue concert. Initially, she is shocked and yells at Scott about what DOES he think he's doing...and then she realizes that there is a door station present. She figures out how all those party goers got there, and Sheri knows a thing or two about door jammin'! It is at this point that we learn that Sheri Squibbles walks a fine line between being the Coolest Mom Ever and being bat guano crazy. She grabs a loaded Scream canister, and climbs on TOP OF THE HOUSE, then releases the safety valve on it, points it at a pile of tree limbs and trash that has collected in the front yard, and sets off a huge explosion, setting fire to the debris while everyone goes crazy and the the Heavy Metal cranks up to 11! She uses another Scream Canister like a jet pack to fly in between doors.
Now, all this time, this poor human couple has had all these monsters trepsing through their room. The wife first accuses her husband of snoring and talking in his sleep, gets pretty angry when Percy Boleslaw, who is going through their room at the time after being told by Art that his girlfriend is fooling around with some other guy and is calling out the girl's name LOUDLY as he runs through the room, making the wife think that her hubby is calling out the name of another woman in his sleep, lol. As the party on the OK side of the closet door gets rowdier and louder, the noises filter through, alarming the wife, who makes her husband get up to go check the closet. Just as he opens the door, that's when Sheri sets off that explosion and fire, and what he sees looks like a vision from Dante's Inferno: bizarre, demonic-looking creatures dancing in front of a backdrop of hellish flames! In terror, the couple grabs their pillows and things, and the short actually ends with them going into their kid's room and, in a reversal of the normal roles, begging their little son to let them sleep with him because there are MONSTERS in their closet, to which the kid replies, "THAT'S what I've been trying to TELL YOU!" This was a party like the ones I remember from college!
Anyway, back to what happens with Johnny. He's been unseen all this time, presumably taking care of some other business, and after everyone has left the ROR house, he comes strutting in yelling, "LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED", making a grand entrance...only he announces this to an empty building. He is literally the only one left in the place, though I guess that the OK's would have managed to grab him, too, had he been present. Now, it's just echoing silence, broken by the sound of a single Red Solo Cup falling off onto the floor, while Johnny stands there totally flummoxed, looking like some big dog somebody abandoned by the side of the road. Not only that, but at the OK house, HIS OWN FRAT MEMBERS LITERALLY DO ABANDON HIM; they actually all agree to pledge to OK and LEAVE ROR, basically giving Johnny a bitter taste of his own medicine, abandoning HIM when they find something better and he is no longer useful to THEM...just as HE abandoned and rejected someone else at the end of the previous school term. It showed clearly that all this time, Johnny had had followers, hangers-on, those who associated with him because of his family name and tough image, but that not ONE of them, not even fanboy Chet, actually gave a rat's rectum about Johnny as a PERSON. He literally had NO ONE. He'd thrown out the ONE guy who probably would have happily been his friend IF Johnny had treated him like something other than an object, and now the truth is revealed about just what everyone really thought about him. Now he's got to explain to his dad how he lost his entire fraternity, how everyone just up and left him, either that or he's gonna have to suck up what tattered shreds of his pride are left and make his way over to the OK house and plead to be included in the fun. Like I said, I would really hate to be Johnny in this short, but I can't say that he didn't have it coming, either. That old female dog called Karma made her presence known for sure.
pitbulllady
