http://www.everytrail.com - Looking down the list of movies for this years longlist announced earlier this week its almost frightening to think that these are the films that will vye for one of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences more competitive prizes come next March. Last year Pixar managed to carry off the gong with one of its weaker efforts the still very good medieval fantasy Brave despite remarkably strong competition from films such as Wreck It Ralph Frankenweenie and ParaNorman. This year the best the studio can offer up is Monsters University a fun but slightly throwaway prequel to the classic Monsters Inc.The runaway favourite on the list of 19 films which will be whittled down to five nominees has to be Despicable Me 2.