DISNEY - MONSTERS, INC.(2001)
A fun little movie!! B+
From a reviewer at Amazon.com
The folks at Pixar can do no wrong with Monsters, Inc., the
studio's fourth feature film, which stretches the computer
animation format in terms of both technical complexity and
emotional impact. The giant, blue-furred James P. "Sulley"
Sullivan (wonderfully voiced by John Goodman) is a scare-monster
extraordinaire in the hidden world of Monstropolis, where the
scaring of kids is an imperative in order to keep the entire city
running. Beyond the competition to be the best at the business,
Sullivan and his assistant, the one-eyed Mike Wazowski (Billy
Crystal), discover what happens when the real world interacts
with theirs in the form of a 2-year-old baby girl dubbed "Boo,"
who accidentally sneaks into the monster world with Sulley one
night. Director Pete Doctor and codirectors David Silverman and
Lee Unkrich follow the Pixar (Toy Story) blueprint with an imaginative
scenario, fun characters, and ace comic timing. By the last heart-tugging
shot, kids may never look at monsters the same, nor artists at
what computer animation can do in the hands of magicians. --Doug Thomas