Film Review : Monsters, Inc.

If there were one thing we were sure of as kids, besides the fact that our toys came to life when we werent around, it was that there were monsters in our rooms, just waiting for the right moment to come out and scare us. What the kids never think is the monsters scare us because its their job, as the filmmakers created a world of monsters, the story of Monsters, Inc. Monsters, Inc. is a 2001 American computer-animated comedy-adventure film directed by Pete Docter, released by Walt Disney Pictures, and the fourth film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. Co-directed by Lee Unkrich and David Silverman. It was released on November 2, 2001. The story begins in Montropolis, the town of monster. This town is powered by the childrens scream. And this is the reason why the monsters scare those kids, because those monsters need their scream to generate their high-technology citys power. Monsters, Inc. itself is the most successfull scream-processing factory in monsters world. At the Monsters, Inc. factory, employees called "Scarers" venture into children's bedrooms to scare them and collect their screams, using closet doors as portals. While James P. Sullivan or Sulley is the best Kids Scarer. He, accompanied by his one eyed bestfriend, Mike Wazowski\has the most prestigious job in Monstropolis, which make his rival, Randall, jealous of him. While working late at the factory, Sulley discovers that Randall left an activated door on the Scarefloor and a young girl has entered the factory, much to Sulley's horror. This is considered a dangerous task since the monsters believe children to be toxic and that touching them would be fatal. After a few failed attempts to put her back, he places her in his bag and hides when Randall arrives and returns the door to storage. Mike is at a restaurant on a date with his girlfriend Celia when Sulley comes to him for help, but chaos erupts when the girl is discovered in the restaurant, and the CDA is called. Sulley and Mike escape the CDA and take the girl home, discovering that she is not toxic after all. Sulley quickly grows attached to the girl and names her "Boo". The next day, they smuggle her into the factory and Mike attempts to return her through her door. Randall tries to kidnap Boo, but kidnaps Mike by mistake. In the basement, Randall reveals to Mike he has built a torture machine ("Scream Extractor") to extract children's screams, which would make the company's current tactics redundant. Randall straps Mike to the chair for experimentation but Sulley stops Randall from using the machine on Mike and reports him to Waternoose. However, Waternoose is revealed to be in allegiance with Randall and he exiles Mike and Sulley to the Himalayas. The two are taken in by the Abominable Snowman, who tells them they can return to the factory through the nearby village. Sulley heads out, but Mike refuses to follow him out of

frustration. Sulley returns to the factory and rescues Boo from the Scream Extractor. Mike returns to apologise to Sulley and inadvertently helps Sulley defeat Randall in a fight. Randall pursues Mike and Sulley as they race to the factory and ride on the doors heading into storage, taking them into a giant vault where millions of closet doors are stored. Boo's laughter activates the doors and allows the chase to pass in and out of the human world. After Boo stops Randall from pushing Sulley out of an open door, Sulley and Mike trap him in the human world using a door to a trailer park, where he is mistaken for an alligator and beaten up by a pair of hillbillies. They are finally able to access Boo's door, but Waternoose and the CDA send it back to the Scarefloor. Mike distracts the CDA, while Sulley escapes with Boo and her door while Waternoose follows. Waternoose is tricked into confessing his plan to kidnap children in the simulation bedroom and is arrested by the CDA. The CDA's leader is revealed to be Roz, who has been undercover for years trying to prove there was a scandal at Monsters Inc. Sulley and Mike say goodbye to Boo and return her home; on Rozs orders Boos door is then destroyed. Sulley becomes the new chairman of Monsters Inc., and thanks to his experience with Boo, he comes up with a plan to end the company's energy crisis. Months later, Sulley's leadership has changed the company's workload. The monsters now enter children's bedrooms to entertain them, since laughter is ten times more powerful than screams.

John Goodman as James P. "Sulley" Sullivan Billy Crystal as Michael "Mike" Wazowski Mary Gibbs as Boo Steve Buscemi as Randall Boggs Jennifer Tilly as Celia Mae James Coburn as Henry J. Waternoose III Bob Peterson as Roz John Ratzenberger as The Abominable Snowman

Eventually Pixar set-up the Simulation department and created a new fur simulation program called Fizt (for "physics tool"). After a shot with Sulley had been animated, the Simulation department took the data for the shot and added his fur. Fizt allowed the fur to react in a natural way. When Sully moved the fur would automatically react to his movements, taking into account the effects of wind and gravity as well. The Fizt program also controlled movement on Boo's clothing. With the Fizt program, it applyed the same system as Sulley's fur. Boo would first be animated shirtless and the Simulation department would use the Fizt program to apply the shirt over Boo's body and when she moved her clothes would react to her movements in a natural manner. To solve the problem of clothto-cloth collisions, Michael Kass, Pixar's senior scientist, developed an algorithm they called "global intersection analysis" to handle the problem. Like the artists and the illustrator, the music arranger also had to create many kinds of music. From the easy one, like chirping bird. Until the complex one, like the sound of multidimensional doors. Furthermore, the careful listener will notice the sound of childrens

scream in Monstropolis, as its the main fuel for the town. All songs written and composed by Randy Newman. The album was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score and a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. The original version of the film was theatrically released on November 2, 2001 in the United States, in Australia on December 26, 2001, and in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2002. After the success of the 3D re-release of The Lion King, Disney and Pixar rereleased Monsters, Inc. in 3D on December 19, 2012. A prequel called Monsters University will be released on June 21, 2013. John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi and Frank Oz are reprising their roles of Sulley, Mike, Randall, and Fungus, while Dan Scanlon is directing the film. The prequel's plot focuses on Sulley and Mike's studies at the University of Fear, where they start off as rivals but soon become best friends. Boo will be absent in the film, as it takes place before they met her. Monsters, Inc. received very positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 96% of critics gave the film a positive review based on 190 reviews, with an average score of 8/10. The critical consensus was: "Even though Monsters, Inc. lacks the sophistication of the Toy Story series, it is a still delight for children of all ages." Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 78 based on 34 reviews. Charles Taylor from Salon.com stated: "It's agreeable and often funny, and adults who take their kids to see it might be surprised to find themselves having a pretty good time. Monsters, Inc. is an interesting film for family, as both children and adult can enjoy the story and the picture. Created by the most modern technology at that time, according to me, it can be categorized as one of the best animation effect. The moral value of this film is, even tough bad energy can give power, but the power of that positive energy or what we call as happiness is more than the bad one. This film also tell us about the meaning of bestfriend. The best side of this film is the animation, we can compare this-2001-product to the newer one, they are not that different. While the bad side of this film is just there are some details left. So I can say that u wont regret to watch this movie, especially for the Toy Story lovers. This film is just worth-watching for every family.