Monsters, Inc.

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Top Scarer Sulley and his enthusiastic Scare Assistant Mike work at Monsters, Inc., the largest scream processing factory in Monstropolis. The main power source of the monster world is the collected screams of human children. However, Monsters believe children are dangerous and toxic, and they are scared silly when a little girl wanders into their world. Sulley and Mike do their best to return the girl home, but they face monstrous intrigue and some hilarious misadventures along the way.
From the Academy Award-winning creators of Toy Story comes the world's number one animated film that captured the hearts of fans and critics everywhere. Featuring ground-breaking animation, imaginative storytelling and an unforgettable voice talent, Monsters, Inc. opens the door to a world of mischief and mayhem and scares up monster-sized laughs along the way.

Treat yourself to the most entertaining movie of the year with all-new exclusive bonus features and animation for monster laughs and monster fun!

DVD bonus features include: All-New Animated Short Film, "Mike's New Car"; "For The Birds" - 2001 Academy Award-Winner for Best Animated Short Film; "Finding Nemo" - An exclusive sneak peek of Disney/Pixar's next feature film release; Hilarious Outtakes and 'Company Play'; Never before seen deleted scenes; Disney Storytime; and Peek-A-Bo: Boo's Door Game.

John Lasseter's Pixar Studio, which releases its films through the Disney Co., is far and away the king of computer animation. At the end of the day, "Toy Story" and "Toy Story 2" simply have no competition as the masterpieces of the genre.

And if the studio's early holiday release, "Monsters, Inc.," is not quite up to the exalted level of these two predecessors, be assured it's still the most eye-popping and thoroughly entertaining animated film to come down the pike so far this year.

Unlike the summer's megagrossing "Shrek," it's also not just a collection of flatulence and penis jokes disguised as a kid's movie. It's G-rated, kind in heart, gentle in spirit and easy to recommend for even the youngest of children.

Its clever premise has it set in Monstropolis, an alternate world in another dimension populated by creatures who come in a bewildering variety of sizes, shapes and colors, with any number of eyes, legs and heads. No two are even remotely alike.

The main source of energy in this world is the screams of children in our world, so its energy plant employs professional "scare-ers" who enter kids' bedrooms through inter-dimensional portals, scare them silly and collect the "scream power" to fuel their world.

The heroes are Sullivan (voice of John Goodman), a huge, bearlike, buffalo-horned critter who is the plant's top scare-getter; and his tag-along buddy, Mike (Billy Crystal), an angst-ridden, egg-shaped, miniature Cyclops who delivers one-liners like, well, Billy Crystal.



Even Monstropolis' top scare-getter, Sullivan, left (voice of John Goodman), and his pal Mike (voice of Billy Crystal), aren't immune from fright.
The story involves the chaos that ensues when a 3-year-old girl accidentally moves through the portal from the human world into the monster world, where -- and here's the movie's big joke -- her presence evokes the same kind of panic that an appearance by King Kong would in ours.

The kid somehow ends up in the hands of the heroes, who, of course, quickly get over their distaste for the human species, and spend the rest of the movie trying to protect her from the "Child Detection Agency" and a self-serving monster named Randall (Steve Buscemi).

As this story unfolds, it never attains the exquisite poignancy of the "Toy Story" movies, which managed to define the unique place toys occupy in the human experience, and connected on the level of "Bambi," "Pinocchio" and the great Disney animation classics.

But it's very smart and very cute and doesn't let down for even one of its 84 minutes. Each sequence has been brilliantly thought out and executed, and invariably goes for laughs instead of any cheap horror thrills that might traumatize a small child.

The creatures themselves -- which would seem to exhaust the possibilities of animated monstrosity for decades to come -- are truly imaginative. And, as usual, the standout is the villain: a slithery, centipedelike chameleon who pops in and out of invisibility with malevolent dexterity.

Once again, Pixar pushes the envelope on the art of computer graphics. Such details as the slight movement of the wind through Sullivan's fur or the subtle shifts in emotion on the face of the child have never seemed more sumptuously lifelike.

Several of the sequences -- a snowstorm in the Himalayas, a chase through the energy plant's infinity of interdimensional gateways -- are mind-bogglingly complex and genuinely thrilling, and raise the bar one notch higher on the movie magic that can be wrought by the computer.

John Goodman ... James P. "Sulley" Sullivan (voice)
Billy Crystal ... Mike Wazowski (voice)
Mary Gibbs ... Boo / Mary (voice)
Steve Buscemi ... Randall Boggs (voice)
James Coburn ... Henry J. Waternoose (voice)
Jennifer Tilly ... Celia (voice)
Bob Peterson ... Roz (voice)
John Ratzenberger ... The Abominable Snowman (voice)
Frank Oz ... Fungus (voice)
Daniel Gerson ... Needleman / Smitty (voice)
Steve Susskind ... Floor Manager (voice)
Bonnie Hunt ... Flint (voice)
Jeff Pidgeon ... Bile (voice)
Samuel Lord Black ... George Sanderson (voice) (as Sam Black)
Jack Angel ... Additional Voice (voice)


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