Get set to party in your cinema seat with the Dendy Cinems’s last OFF-SCRIPT hosted interactive screening. OFF SCRIPT is a must-see programme of endlessly fun and deliciously campy films plus free audience participation kits on arrival.

Follow your host MAGENTA as they guide you through this unforgettable, exclusive experience.

Join us at Dendy Cinemas Portside on Friday, 12 September for our OFF SCRIPT screening of the audience favourite THE PRINCESS BRIDE, starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Wallace Shawn, Peter Falk and Billy Crystal. While home sick in bed, a young boy’s grandfather reads him the story of a farm boy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love.

OFF SCRIPT – THE PRINCESS BRIDE
FRIDAY, 12 SEPTEMBER | 9pm
DENDY PORTSIDE
www.portside.dendy.com.au

So it is that Monsters University arrives with much anticipation. The sequel has some mighty shoes to fill and sadly it falls some way short as it is surprisingly bereft of new ideas. What is presented here is simply a ‘further adventures of Mike and Sully’ film that could easily have gone straight to DVD.

The film channels the frat movies of the eighties. While that seems like such a great idea in theory, the potential remains largely unrealised here. Taking most of its cues from Revenge of the Nerds, we see Mike and Sully teaming up with the university geek fraternity to win the day against all odds. What could have been an excellent dual level adult/child animated comedy (a genre pioneered by Pixar) disappointingly remains a resolute kids’ flick.

This is Pixar sleepwalking. Monsters University is the Cars 2 of Pixar’s Monster franchise; it’s an entertaining children’s movie, but it could have been (and should have been) so much more.

Stuart Jamieson
www.monstersuniversity.com