Amazon.co.uk Review
The monsters in Monsters, Inc. are just so incredibly cute--and they know it. Whereas Woody, Buzz and pals in the Toy Story saga were filled with self-doubt about just how much the children in their lives would continue to love them, here our heroic monsters and their impossibly lovable human ward Boo have no such worries, at least when it comes to the cinema audience. And that's why Monsters, Inc., for all its wondrous computer-animated artistry, its smart humour and its family-friendly appeal, doesn't quite capture the naïve charm of its predecessors.
Nevertheless, John Goodman and Billy Crystal, as scare-champions Sulley and Mike, are a great double-act whose comedy never goes over kids' heads but still reaches up to make their parents laugh. The film's central conceit--that monsters in the bedroom closet are just doing a night's work in order to generate power from screams for the city of Monstropolis--is funny and cleverly worked out; and kids will of course love the fact that the monsters are mortally afraid of the very children they are trying to frighten.
The animation is extraordinarily detailed (Sulley's fur is a marvel in itself) and the set-piece action sequences top anything that has gone before for sheer audaciousness. But overall Pixar play things very safe, from the hissable villain to the end credit "outtakes". A bolder film might have taken inspiration from The Nightmare Before Christmas; instead, a little of that Disney disease of knowing cuteness seems to have crept into the formula. --Mark Walker
Customer Reviews:
A great family animation - Pixar brilliance.......2008-03-04
Pixar have earned a glowing reputation over the last two decades by creating heart warming and humorous family films, and Monsters Inc is yet another animated masterpiece.
From the great adventures of Woody and Buzz in the Toy Story franchise to The superheroes in The Incredibles, Pixar have become an established company in the film animation industry and this 2001 hit about monsters is one of their best.
From director Pete Docter, comes a story about Sully and Mike, two scarers in the Monsters Inc cooperation who find their world turned upside down when a monstrous child enters their world and their lives.
It's a typical family film containing amusing physical humour, none more so than Crystal's (When Harry met Sally) Mike Wazowski. Little girl Boo is a great character for the film so audiences can see the differences between the Monster world (Beautifully named Monstropolus) and the human world.
These differences make the film even more humours as the monsters all fear humans, and that in itself is a catalyst.
The film moves at the right pace, giving characters their own sub stories to widen the interest.
It's a very sweet film, especially towards the end which many people have acclaimed to find very sad.
The plot and comedy are consistent, the animation is simply super and is one of Pixar's best ever animations and therefore, a simply must watch for the whole family.
8.5/10
A sweet and entertaining animation.......2007-12-31
Pixar, the people behind Toy Story, Finding Nemo and the excellent Incredibles, is one of the best western animation studios around at the moment and Monsters Inc is probably one of the best films they have ever made. In the film the monsters that live in children's cupboards come from the city of Monstropolis and get their power from the screams of the children. When the top Scarer Sulley and his assistant Mike discovers a child has crossed over from the human world to Monstropolis they do their best to return her home but monstrous intrigue and the fact that all monsters are deathly afraid of humans complicate matters incredibly.
The main strength of Monsters Inc is its utterly incredible CGI animation that is some of the best anyone has ever produced. The plot itself is also sound, managing to be entertaining and funny while still retaining some sense of suspense. The writing is solid and the voice cast is almost perfect. Although this film is suitable and entertaining enough for both children and adults to watch, I personally feel that some of Pixar's other films are better suited for an adult audience. Despite this Monsters Inc remains a fun and highly humorous film.
Screen size!.......2007-12-19
Ace film as we all know, but beware - this version is NOT wide screen!!
A VERY GOOD FILM THAT CAN BE ENJOYED BY BOTH ADULTS AND CHILDREN.......2007-10-15
I had heard very, very good things about Monsters, Inc. (2001). All of the people that had seen in theatrically had told me it was fantastic. Being that it had come from animated geniuses Pixar, I can't say that I expected something as bad as Kazaam (1996). I expected something terrific, but not as terrific as I got.
The story revolves around James P. Sullivan (John Goodman) and Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal). They both live in a city called Monstropolis, and work at a factory named Monsters, Inc., where monsters are given a designated child of which they go into the bedroom of and scare every morning at work, as that is apparently bedtime for children in the human world, and the screams of the child fill yellow tanks that look like the oxygen tanks scuba divers use. The screams are then processed into electricity, which is used to power the whole of Monstropolis, but they cannot make contact with a child or any object from the child's room, as they believe that nothing is as dangerous or deadly as a human child. Sully is the top scarer currently working in the factory, and is at the top of the ladder on scares, and trailing just behind him is a sleazy monster named Randall Boggs (portrayed very well by Steve Buscemi). Randall is determined to get to the top of the ladder ahead of Sully, so one evening after work, when the scarefloor (where the business is conducted) is empty, Randall sneaks his door down to cheat Sully off the top of the ladder, and goes to fetch a trolley of tanks to get the screams. Roz, the dispatch manager (Bob Petersen (III)) is always up Wazowski about his paperwork not being in on time, on the scares he works with Sully, so Sully covers for him so Mike can go out for dinner to a sushi restaurant with his girlfriend Celia (Jennifer Tilly), the receptionist at the factory. Sully goes up to the scarefloor to collect the paperwork, and discovers the door sitting there while the rest have been put away. He goes in and investigates, and accidentally lets the child, which he later names Boo, out of her room. He panics, and throws her back in, or so he thinks. Accidentally collecting some toys, he runs and stuffs them in a locker. He then discovers that Boo is holding onto his back, so he stuffs her into a sports bag. He gets back just as Randall, noticing his child is not in bed, walks puzzled out of her room, and puts back the tanks and the door. Sully rushes to the sushi restaurant to tell Mike, interrupting their dinner, and making Celia, who has rattlesnakes for hair, very unhappy, and so begins a wild adventure to get Boo back to the her room, but run into many obstacles in the way, such as hiding Boo from Randall, who wants to kidnap her and extract her screams, using a scream extractor (go figure), hide her from the boss, keep her at bay thinking she is deadly, and save their jobs, but get attached to her along the way. There are many other little surprises, such as subtle references to the Toy Story films, those of which I will not give away here, as you should see the film for yourself.
The film is not, and I cannot stress this enough, just a kid's movie. Most, if not all, adults that view it will also like and accept it's morals, and appreciate it's sense or humour. It is a great movie for the entire family, as Pixar are renowned for.
the best movie ever made.......2007-09-24
monsters inc is my favorite movie and by far the best! the main characters in the movie, mike wazowski and sulley are my favorite chararcters. it kind of makes me laugh whenever they say "2319 we have a 2319", or whaever randall or roz says something to mike. i watch this movie every few nights a week without getting tired of it as a matter of fact, i went to see this movie when it was first released and loved it then as i do now. my favorite part of this movie is the door part where sulley and mike hang on doors flying. but not just that, my other favorite part is when they go to mount everest to get stuck in a blizzard. boo and celia would be my least favorite characters in this movie. mr waternoose is a nice guy til the end when he gets arrested.
overall, this movie is great and i will give it 5 stars!!
Amazon.co.uk Review
The monsters in Monsters, Inc. are just so incredibly cute--and they know it. Whereas Woody, Buzz and pals in the Toy Story saga were filled with self-doubt about just how much the children in their lives would continue to love them, here our heroic monsters and their impossibly lovable human ward Boo have no such worries, at least when it comes to the cinema audience. And that's why Monsters, Inc., for all its wondrous computer-animated artistry, its smart humour and its family-friendly appeal, doesn't quite capture the naïve charm of its predecessors.
Nevertheless, John Goodman and Billy Crystal, as scare-champions Sulley and Mike, are a great double-act whose comedy never goes over kids' heads but still reaches up to make their parents laugh. The film's central conceit--that monsters in the bedroom closet are just doing a night's work in order to generate power from screams for the city of Monstropolis--is funny and cleverly worked out; and kids will of course love the fact that the monsters are mortally afraid of the very children they are trying to frighten.
The animation is extraordinarily detailed (Sulley's fur is a marvel in itself) and the set-piece action sequences top anything that has gone before for sheer audaciousness. But overall Pixar play things very safe, from the hissable villain to the end credit "outtakes". A bolder film might have taken inspiration from The Nightmare Before Christmas; instead, a little of that Disney disease of knowing cuteness seems to have crept into the formula. --Mark Walker
Customer Reviews:
A great family animation - Pixar brilliance.......2008-03-04
Pixar have earned a glowing reputation over the last two decades by creating heart warming and humorous family films, and Monsters Inc is yet another animated masterpiece.
From the great adventures of Woody and Buzz in the Toy Story franchise to The superheroes in The Incredibles, Pixar have become an established company in the film animation industry and this 2001 hit about monsters is one of their best.
From director Pete Docter, comes a story about Sully and Mike, two scarers in the Monsters Inc cooperation who find their world turned upside down when a monstrous child enters their world and their lives.
It's a typical family film containing amusing physical humour, none more so than Crystal's (When Harry met Sally) Mike Wazowski. Little girl Boo is a great character for the film so audiences can see the differences between the Monster world (Beautifully named Monstropolus) and the human world.
These differences make the film even more humours as the monsters all fear humans, and that in itself is a catalyst.
The film moves at the right pace, giving characters their own sub stories to widen the interest.
It's a very sweet film, especially towards the end which many people have acclaimed to find very sad.
The plot and comedy are consistent, the animation is simply super and is one of Pixar's best ever animations and therefore, a simply must watch for the whole family.
8.5/10
A sweet and entertaining animation.......2007-12-31
Pixar, the people behind Toy Story, Finding Nemo and the excellent Incredibles, is one of the best western animation studios around at the moment and Monsters Inc is probably one of the best films they have ever made. In the film the monsters that live in children's cupboards come from the city of Monstropolis and get their power from the screams of the children. When the top Scarer Sulley and his assistant Mike discovers a child has crossed over from the human world to Monstropolis they do their best to return her home but monstrous intrigue and the fact that all monsters are deathly afraid of humans complicate matters incredibly.
The main strength of Monsters Inc is its utterly incredible CGI animation that is some of the best anyone has ever produced. The plot itself is also sound, managing to be entertaining and funny while still retaining some sense of suspense. The writing is solid and the voice cast is almost perfect. Although this film is suitable and entertaining enough for both children and adults to watch, I personally feel that some of Pixar's other films are better suited for an adult audience. Despite this Monsters Inc remains a fun and highly humorous film.
Screen size!.......2007-12-19
Ace film as we all know, but beware - this version is NOT wide screen!!
A VERY GOOD FILM THAT CAN BE ENJOYED BY BOTH ADULTS AND CHILDREN.......2007-10-15
I had heard very, very good things about Monsters, Inc. (2001). All of the people that had seen in theatrically had told me it was fantastic. Being that it had come from animated geniuses Pixar, I can't say that I expected something as bad as Kazaam (1996). I expected something terrific, but not as terrific as I got.
The story revolves around James P. Sullivan (John Goodman) and Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal). They both live in a city called Monstropolis, and work at a factory named Monsters, Inc., where monsters are given a designated child of which they go into the bedroom of and scare every morning at work, as that is apparently bedtime for children in the human world, and the screams of the child fill yellow tanks that look like the oxygen tanks scuba divers use. The screams are then processed into electricity, which is used to power the whole of Monstropolis, but they cannot make contact with a child or any object from the child's room, as they believe that nothing is as dangerous or deadly as a human child. Sully is the top scarer currently working in the factory, and is at the top of the ladder on scares, and trailing just behind him is a sleazy monster named Randall Boggs (portrayed very well by Steve Buscemi). Randall is determined to get to the top of the ladder ahead of Sully, so one evening after work, when the scarefloor (where the business is conducted) is empty, Randall sneaks his door down to cheat Sully off the top of the ladder, and goes to fetch a trolley of tanks to get the screams. Roz, the dispatch manager (Bob Petersen (III)) is always up Wazowski about his paperwork not being in on time, on the scares he works with Sully, so Sully covers for him so Mike can go out for dinner to a sushi restaurant with his girlfriend Celia (Jennifer Tilly), the receptionist at the factory. Sully goes up to the scarefloor to collect the paperwork, and discovers the door sitting there while the rest have been put away. He goes in and investigates, and accidentally lets the child, which he later names Boo, out of her room. He panics, and throws her back in, or so he thinks. Accidentally collecting some toys, he runs and stuffs them in a locker. He then discovers that Boo is holding onto his back, so he stuffs her into a sports bag. He gets back just as Randall, noticing his child is not in bed, walks puzzled out of her room, and puts back the tanks and the door. Sully rushes to the sushi restaurant to tell Mike, interrupting their dinner, and making Celia, who has rattlesnakes for hair, very unhappy, and so begins a wild adventure to get Boo back to the her room, but run into many obstacles in the way, such as hiding Boo from Randall, who wants to kidnap her and extract her screams, using a scream extractor (go figure), hide her from the boss, keep her at bay thinking she is deadly, and save their jobs, but get attached to her along the way. There are many other little surprises, such as subtle references to the Toy Story films, those of which I will not give away here, as you should see the film for yourself.
The film is not, and I cannot stress this enough, just a kid's movie. Most, if not all, adults that view it will also like and accept it's morals, and appreciate it's sense or humour. It is a great movie for the entire family, as Pixar are renowned for.
the best movie ever made.......2007-09-24
monsters inc is my favorite movie and by far the best! the main characters in the movie, mike wazowski and sulley are my favorite chararcters. it kind of makes me laugh whenever they say "2319 we have a 2319", or whaever randall or roz says something to mike. i watch this movie every few nights a week without getting tired of it as a matter of fact, i went to see this movie when it was first released and loved it then as i do now. my favorite part of this movie is the door part where sulley and mike hang on doors flying. but not just that, my other favorite part is when they go to mount everest to get stuck in a blizzard. boo and celia would be my least favorite characters in this movie. mr waternoose is a nice guy til the end when he gets arrested.
overall, this movie is great and i will give it 5 stars!!
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