10 Movie Franchises That Didn't Care About HUGE Plot Holes

Pixar's prequel Monsters University focuses on the first meeting and fast-growing friendship of Mike (Billy Crystal) and Sulley (John Goodman) at university, which seems all well and good until you remember that its entire premise contradicts a memorable line from the first Monsters, Inc.

In the original film, Mike says to Sulley, "You've been jealous of my good looks since the fourth grade, pal", flat-out stating that they've known each other since long before they met at Uni.

Fans have attempted to paper over this by suggesting that "fourth grade" is just a monster figure-of-speech, but in an interview, director Dan Scanlon confirmed that it was indeed a plot hole they simply decided to ignore because they liked the Monsters University concept so much.

Scanlon said, "We tried versions where they met young and then we kind of skipped ahead to college. And we knew we didn’t want to make Monsters Elementary...It was really Pete Doctor, the original director, and John Lasseter who finally kind of said to me, it’s great that you’re honoring that, but you have to do what’s right for the story...And so we made a tough decision to just have them be in college and put that line aside."

He added, "So the good thing is the only reason that line was in the first film was to just give you the feeling that these guys have known each other a long time and I think that college still does that."

Now, it's hardly an issue that hampers either movie much at all, but as far as creative oversights in favour of the bigger picture are concerned, Monsters University pretty brazenly ignores established lore.