Total Copies Sold: 2,658,251 Less cynical than Cars 2, brighter colours than Brave and not totally about making twenty-somethings cry as with Toy Story 3, Monsters University was the first film from Pixar in a good while that had enough to get both kids and parents as gushing in praise of the animation giant's latest. Although some critics were a bit sniffy about the prequel which charts Mike and Sulley's days at college, the film was a massive success and bested the original (even with inflation taken into account). And why not? Far from being a desperate cash-in the team, led by first-time director Dan Scanlon, had produced not only a realistic representation of college life, but told an emotional story that stood on its own.
