Detailed item info | Movie description | Intelligent, funny, adorable, and beautifully animated, MONSTERS, INC. will delight fans of SHREK and TOY STORY, while drawing a new audience of curious, kid-friendly viewers. Billy Crystal and John Goodman make a fiercely funny comedic team as job partners and best friends, Mike (Crystal)--a little green guy with one huge eyeball, and Sulley (Goodman)--a big purple and blue fuzzy guy with dinosaur spikes down his back. Mike and Sully work at MONSTERS, INC., a gigantic corporation that captures the screams of little children and turns them into energy. To make the children scream, the monsters must enter each child's bedroom through the closet door, then deliver a frightening affront. The only problem is, kids aren't scared anymore. And because of this problem, Monsters, Inc. is in a jam. But when one little girl, Boo (Mary Gibbs), follows Sully through her closet door and into the factory, she brings an even more dire issue to the fore: the monsters are actually terrified of children. From Pixar Animation Studios, MONSTERS, INC. is an exciting adventure with a sweet, happy ending.
Both the DVD and VHS releases include the animated short FOR THE BIRDS and a home video exclusive performance of "Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me" created by Mike Wazowski.
| | Details | | Edition: | Clam Shell |
| | Notes | Additional Release Material:
Short Feature - 1. FOR THE BIRDS
2. MIKE'S NEW CAR
Outtakes
Additional Footage - 1. Performance of "Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me" by Mike Wazowski
2. Inside Look at FINDING NEMO
Theatrical Release Date: NOVEMBER 2, 2001
| | Editorial reviews | "...There hasn't been a film in years to use creative energy as efficiently as MONSTERS, INC.; this is one clean-burning fuel engine that doesn't waste a joke or a thought..."
New York Times - p.E17 - Elvis Mitchell (11/02/2001)
"...This is a standout pleasure trip for preschoolers up through the early grades....The movie is as visually inventive as its Pixar predecessors..."
USA Today - p.7E - Mike Clark (11/02/2001)
"...MONSTERS, INC. has got that swing, that zippity, multilevel awareness of kids'-eye sensibilities and adult-pitched humor..."
Entertainment Weekly - p.82 - Lisa Schwarzbaum (11/09/2001)
"...Richly original....A story that blends humor, pathos and action into a backdrop as creative as any classic fairytale..."
Box Office - p.62 - Wade Major (01/01/2002)
"...Beautifully rendered....The alternative universe it portrays has an insulated quality that gives the movie much of its escapist charm..."
Sight and Sound - p.54 - Crash Leyland (02/01/2002)
"...Flawlessly animated, MONSTERS, INC. glows with loving care and attention....The humour works as part of a thumpingly good narrative..."
Total Film - p.96 - Ceri Thomas (03/01/2002)
"...MONSTERS, INC. is cheerful, high-energy fun, and like the other Pixar movies, has a running supply of gags and references aimed at grownups..."
Chicago Sun-Times - Reinhard Ebert (11/02/2001)
| | Awards | 2001 Academy Awards, Best Original Song: Randy Newman
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