Directed By: Pete Doctor and David Silverman

Written By: Pete Doctor and Jill Culton

In a world called Monstropolis lives a species humans call Monster’s.  In spite of our feelings about monster’s in their world they are afraid of kids.  James Sullivan (John Goodman) and Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) are two monster friends who work for the company Monsters, Incorporated.  It Sulley’s job to go into children’s bedrooms and make them scream.  In Monstropolis a child’s scream is what powers their city.  Sulley’s biggest competition is Randall Boggs, a creepy monster that seems to have an agenda outside of scaring kids.  One evening Mike discovers that Randall has been sneaking into children’s rooms after scare hours and in his error a human child finds herself in the world of monsters.

Monsters, Inc. is one of the few Pixar movies that I think is geared more towards children than adults.  It’s unquestionably cute and the idea that Monster’s are in fact more afraid of the kids than the kids of them plays out in a manner that is purely infectious.  Sully’s sentimentality for the little girl he calls “Boo”(Mary Gibbs) is what really sells the story.  His affection for her is the catalyst for every event that follows after he takes her outside of the scaring room.

 The trio of John Goodman, Billy Crystal, and Steve Buscemi make the characters already brilliant animation really come to life.  In Pixar’s usual form the animation for Monsters Inc is simply brilliant.  The bright colors and totally insane looking creature’s were fun and exciting.  The whole idea of the scare floor, and the closet that stores all the children’s doors is uniqueness in it’s best form.  The greatest aspect of this movie was inspiring kids not to be afraid of the dark or monsters in the closet.

As good as it was, Monsters, Inc. isn’t one of my favorite Pixar movies, but it was a long way better than 90% of the animated movies that have come out in the last five or six years.  One of Pixar’s best qualities is being able to think of idea’s that other animator’s haven’t and then tell them from a perspective that is enjoyable to both adult and child.  While Monster’s, Inc. focuses more on the child portion of entertainment it still embraces jokes and topics that are there purely for adult satisfaction alone.  Monster’s, Inc. is a feel good movie that kids of any age will delight in and adults will appreciate over and over again.  Three out of Four stars.

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