Monsters, Inc. 2001

      The city of Monstropolis is a city of monsters with no humans.  It centers around the city’s power company, Monsters, Inc.  This company generates power from the screams of children!!  This is their reaction to the monsters that come into their rooms in the night.  The top monster is James P. Sullivan, better known as Sulley.  He has a wisecracking best friend, Mike Wazowski.  A 2-year-old baby girl named Boo accidentally sneaks into the monster world with Sulley one night.  Sulley and Mike must return Boo through her specific door and place her back into her bedroom.  If Randall, Sulley’s main rival plus Mike and Sulley’s boss Mr. Waternoose find out Boo is in the monster world, there will be trouble!! 

     This film is about monsters in the closet but their actual job is to scare kids from 9am-5pm.  Children may be scared of the movie’s concept in the beginning but they soon figure out that Sulley is a softy and he takes care of little girl Boo.  She’s not afraid of him at all!!  Children will find it funny that most monsters are afraid of any contact with human kids.  If anything from a child’s room is brought into the factory, everyone panics.  Biohazard works quarantines and shaves the monster.  There is a 3-D version with more intensity.  5* (I really liked this movie)

92 min, Animations directed by Peter Docter, David Silverman and Lee Unkrich.  Written by Pete Doctor, Jill Culton, Jeff Pidgeon, Ralph Eggleston, Andrew Stanton, Daniel Gerson with John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi, James Coburn, Jennifer Tilly, Bob Peterson, John Ratzenberger, Frank Oz, Daniel Gerson, Steve Susskind, Bonnie Hunt, Jeff Pidgeon, Samuel Lord Black, Jack Angel.

Note:  Imdb 8 out of 10 with 795,375 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 96% with 196 critics 90% with 1,254,638 user ratings, Roger Ebert 3*, Common Sense Media, Nell Minow, 5+ age, A+ 1* Educational Value, 4*positive messages, 4* role models, 2* violence, 1* sex, 0* language, 3* consumerism, 0* drinking drugs & smoking, indiewire.com A.

Special Note:  Mary Gibbs was young girl in here role as Boo.  It was difficult to get her to stand in the recording studio and act her lines.  Instead, she was followed around with a microphone and her lines were cut together.  Originally Boo was to be six years old but that was changed with Boo being younger.  It normally took 11-12 hours to film a single frame of Sulley.  There were 2.3 million individually animated hair strands for his character.  John Goodman and Billy Crystal sometimes recorded their lines in the same room and this is unusual for an animated film.  Steve Buscemi and Frank Oz also recorded their lines together.