Other Titles • Monsters, Inc. • Hidden City (1999) • Monsters, Incorporated (2001)
Synopses for Monsters, Inc. (2001)
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From the Academy Award(R)-winning creators of "Toy Story" comes MONSTERS, INC., the hilarious new computer-animated feature that opens the door to a world of monsters and mayhem and scares up lots of laughs in the process. MONSTERS, INC. is the largest scare factory in the monster world and the top kid Scarer is James P. Sullivan (John Goodman, "The Emperor's New Groove"), a huge, intimidating monster with blue fur, large purple spots and horns, known as "Sulley" to his friends. His Scare Assistant, best friend and roommate is Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal, "America's Sweethearts"), a lime green, opinionated, feisty monster. Scaring children isn't such an easy job, as monsters believe children are toxic and that direct contact with them would be catastrophic.
The 2-disc DVD of this hilarious and heartwarming comedy smash features an all-new animated short "Mike's New Car" created exclusively for this MONSTERS, INC. release (with the voices of John Goodman and Billy Crystal); the uproarious, Oscar(R)-nominated Pixar short "For the Birds" (Best Animated Short Film nominee, 2001); hysterical outtakes including a hilarious "Company Play" musical performance by the MONSTERS, INC. characters, an exclusive look at the exciting upcoming feature film FINDING NEMO, a Walt Disney Pictures presentation of a Pixar Animation Studios film, and much, much more.
(4 votes)
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Intelligent, funny, adorable, and beautifully animated, MONSTERS, INC. will delight fans of SHREK and TOY STORY, while drawing a new audience of curious, kid-friendly viewers. Billy Crystal and John Goodman make a fiercely funny comedic team as job partners and best friends, Mike (Crystal)--a little green guy with one huge eyeball, and Sulley (Goodman)--a big purple and blue fuzzy guy with dinosaur spikes down his back. Mike and Sully work at MONSTERS, INC., a gigantic corporation that captures the screams of little children and turns them into energy. To make the children scream, the monsters must enter each child's bedroom through the closet door, then deliver a frightening affront. The only problem is, kids aren't scared anymore. And because of this problem, Monsters, Inc. is in a jam. But when one little girl, Boo (Mary Gibbs), follows Sully through her closet door and into the factory, she brings an even more dire issue to the fore: the monsters are actually terrified of children. From Pixar Animation Studios, MONSTERS, INC. is an exciting adventure with a sweet, happy ending.
Both the DVD and VHS releases include the animated short FOR THE BIRDS and a home video exclusive performance of "Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me" created by Mike Wazowski.
(4 votes)
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The monsters in Monsters, Inc. are just so incredibly cute--and they know it. Whereas Woody, Buzz and pals in the Toy Story saga were filled with self-doubt about just how much the children in their lives would continue to love them, here our heroic monsters and their impossibly lovable human ward Boo have no such worries, at least when it comes to the cinema audience. And that's why Monsters, Inc., for all its wondrous computer-animated artistry, its smart humour and its family-friendly appeal, doesn't quite capture the naïve charm of its predecessors.
Nevertheless, John Goodman and Billy Crystal, as scare-champions Sulley and Mike, are a great double-act whose comedy never goes over kids' heads but still reaches up to make their parents laugh. The film's central conceit--that monsters in the bedroom closet are just doing a night's work in order to generate power from screams for the city of Monstropolis--is funny and cleverly worked out; and kids will of course love the fact that the monsters are mortally afraid of the very children they are trying to frighten.
The animation is extraordinarily detailed (Sulley's fur is a marvel in itself) and the set-piece action sequences top anything that has gone before for sheer audaciousness. But overall Pixar play things very safe, from the hissable villain to the end credit "outtakes". A bolder film might have taken inspiration from The Nightmare Before Christmas; instead, a little of that Disney disease of knowing cuteness seems to have crept into the formula. --Mark Walker
(3 votes)
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