Monsters, Inc. | | Cast : | John Goodman, Billy Crystal | | Director : | David Silverman, Peter Docter, Lee Unkrich | | Studio : | Walt Disney Home Video | | Format : | Animated, Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | November 02, 2001 | | DVD Released Date : | September 17, 2002 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | G (General Audience) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 31, 2005 | | Summary | Monsters, Inc. review | Content
 | Now their won't be anymore reasons to be afraid of monsters in the closet! This is a great movie for kids, my daughter loves it! Our heroine, Boo, shows that their may in fact BE a monster in your closet, but there is no reason to be afraid of it. I recommend this film to anyone with kids, and even those of us that are just young at heart! Pixar did an excellent job on this one,... but don't they always?! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 25, 2005 | | Summary | "WE SCARE BECAUSE WE CARE!" | Content
| "Monsters, Inc."? You want me to talk about "Monsters, Inc."? All right, we will. "Monsters, Inc.", Pixar's fantastic and wacky comedy (its fourth movie), is one of the funniest movies ever made, animated or live-action. It's got elements of the Marx Bros., Mel Brooks, Chaplin and Looney Tunes. It has some of the goofiest-looking characters ever- no two monsters are alike. It has some of the best voice work ever, from big names like John Goodman and Billy Crystal to tiny, 3-year-old (at the time) Mary Gibbs. It has a most original story line, some snazzy designs, a warm kid-friendly message that's refreshing rather than gooey, and guaranteed laugh-out-loud gags that even leave this sober-sided writer rolling on the floor.
The "Monsters, Inc." story is well-known, but on the off-chance you've never seen it (for shame!), here it is: Welcome to Monstropolis, the only city in the world where humans are poisonous. Most of its inhabitants work at Monsters, Inc., the giant corporation that produces the city's energy by means of clean "scream power": the reaction by frightened kids hidden behind electronic doors! A team of "scarers", assisted by their door operators, create the screams, and if you have so much as a baby bootie on your body, it's time for the CDA (Child Detection Agency) to roar into the plant with a full shutdown by its headless yellow robots. James P. (Sulley) Sullivan, a huge blue furry creature, is the star of the scare floor, with help from his motormouthed green eyeball partner, Mike Wazowski. These are the characters voiced by Goodman and Crystal, respectively, and two of the greatest animated characters ever created.
All you-know-what breaks loose after a stray after-hours door is opened and a very cute little girl, who has maybe a five-word vocabulary, sneaks into the MI plant. The sequence where Sulley barges into a sushi bar (run by octopi) and the kid pops out of a bag is one of the funniest things you'll ever see- it's a "Kid-Tastrophe", as a hysterical Muppet-ish TV announcer says.
Soon, Sulley and Mike discover that "Boo", as they nickname the girl, is really a friend, and that people are not poisonous. For the rest, you'll have to watch it, and I'm one who could watch this every night.
If you own just one Pixar DVD, "Monsters, Inc." is the one to get, not just because the movie itself is fantastic, but so is the bonus disc. Team Pixar has a great time showing off all their computer, animation and voice tricks with everything from storyboards to early sketches (Sulley was originally dubbed
"James P. Johnson" and was orange). There are foreign-language clips (watch one five-minute sequence dubbed into everything from Polish to Portuguese- Lisboan and Brazilian), musical portions (Randy Newman's playful Dixieland-ish score and his theme song, sung in character by Crystal and Goodman, won him a long-awaited Oscar), even guest appearances by Sulley and Mike on everything from the ABC Monday Night Football opening to something called "Ponkickies" (an animated Japanese kiddie breakfast TV show). More than any other Pixar DVD package, the extras are a great show in themselves, satisfying everyone from the tiny tots to the grown-up animation geeks. For that matter, so does the movie.
I don't know anyone who doesn't love "Monsters, Inc.", and when you're done with it, you, too, will want your very own one-eyed green Mike to hang out with and do your errands. You'll also have a carload of catchwords ("Put-That-Thing-Right-Back-Where-It-Came-From-Or-So-Help-Me!...The Musical!") in your head and a great understanding of how, and why, Pixar truly brought animation into the new millennium. Best of all, this movie really is fun for all from three to 93. "Monsters, Inc.": it's a scream! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 08, 2005 | | Summary | Nothing to complain about! | Content
| Monsters Inc. was received very quickly and my grandson was very pleased. This was the first thing ordered through Amazon and I was thrilled with the speed and price. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 20, 2005 | | Summary | Funny movie! But this DVD is ONLY in English. | Content
| This one is a gem, for sure. I don't really have much more to add to the other reviews, except for one thing. Just make sure you notice that there are NO other languages dubbed on this DVD. It is ONLY in English, which was disappointing for me, a French and Spanish teacher. Yes, you can buy the other versions -- separately. I was very disappointed about this when I purchased this DVD. (I did not purchase it through Amazon and it was not clear about this on the back of the DVD box when I picked it up in the store. Hard to believe they would make it only with an English track these days.) |
| Rating | | | Date | June 15, 2005 | | Summary | Scares that make you laugh | Content
| It's nighttime. Your mom gives you a good night kiss and closes the door. Quietly you try to sleep when suddenly you feel a creak in the door. The closet opens and a monster comes out to steal you a scream
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For you it's a nightmare. To the monster it's a way to produce some energy. And that's the premise of Monsters Inc.
The Monster City is located at the other side of the closet. Diverse and weird creatures wander on the streets in their daily routines, most of them without interacting with the humans. A particular company, Monsters Inc., transforms children's nighttime screams in energetic resources to keep the city working properly.
Monsters Inc staff is trained to scare, and no one is better than James Sullivan "Sully" (John Goodman), who alongside Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal, a riot) is the best team of energy collectors in the company
Monsters must avoid contact with the children, because they think children are contagious (genius premise); neither can allow them to go to the monster world, since they can't predict what horrible consequences would follow.
And exactly that's what happens. A little girl goes through the door and sends Mike and Sully in an unprecedented adventure.
Filled with honest laughs, warm and funny, Monsters is a charming movie with a story as original as their predecessor, Toy Story and A Bug's Life.
In this adventure, Pixar once again pushes the excellence level in animated movies, using 2.5 million render marks, compared with the 1.1 used in Toy Story. Such accomplishments are obvious and admirable, especially in sequences where you can see clearly the blue skin of Sully in movement with the air, Boo's hair or the wonderful facial expressions of Mike.
This is a happy movie, full of joy and a good lesson. Fear creates power, but a negative one, which inhibits people (and monsters). But, as our character discovers, there are other kinds of power, much stronger, like a good laugh, to deal with our "inner demons" and come out winners in life.
Now about the DVD, I have to say that comes with great extras and bonus.
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