Monsters, Inc. (DVD)

Welcome to Monstropolis, the bustling city that is home to monsters James P. Sullivan aka Sulley and Mike Wazowski. Life in Monstropolis pretty much echoes that of life in a human city - on their way to work Sulley and Mike pass monster children skipping in the street, they see other monsters going about their daily business (like a monster trying to read a paper but burning it to cinders when he sneezes a fireball), and greet friends like Tony, ...
...However, the inhabitants of Monstropolis are facing a power crisis. Sulley and Mike work at Monsters Inc., the largest scream processing factory in Monstropolis, where collected children's screams are their power source. The trouble is, children are becoming harder to scare and it doesn't help that the monsters themselves are terrified of human children - they believe that they are toxic and dangerous. So when a human child manages to find her way ...

lora44 09.07.2005 (12.07.2005) · Read full review
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Anybody that knows me by now knows that I watch a lot of children’s movies. I have explained before but I get forced you know? One minute I can be watching the footie, the next I’m invaded by the rest of the family who abruptly turn the TV onto the DVD channel, shove a bowl of popcorn in the middle of the room and bind and gag me for the following 90 minutes or so. This happened only recently with the millionth re-run of Monsters. Inc. In fact, it ...
...back in 2001…… Can you believe it? There I am standing in the queue for my seat tickets at my local UCG and there are a couple of strange looking fellas in front of me. One of 'ems a large, furry guy with broad shoulders and blue fur. The other is a small, green round chap with one large eye. They're both carrying plastic tubes in their hands. So I buy my tickets and shuffle through the theatre doors to take my seat. The kids are tugging at my shirt ...

Marandina 14.03.2004 (18.03.2004) · Read full review
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Hiya guys!! Well here I am with another film review! Big surprise I know!! This time it's on one of my more favourite computer generated films....... MONSTERS INC Well here I go folks....some quotes from the experts! "Overflows with clever gags, stunning visuals, shrewd matching of vocal talent and animated characters." Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS "This flick is absolutely fantastic from top to bottom, beginning to end!" John Venable, ...
...the Toy Story films are, well then it's pretty damn close." Scott Weinberg, EFILMCRITIC.COM Well I totally agree with these guys and they obviously seem to like it! ***TECHIE STUFF*** This film has a U certificate so there is nothing for the parents to be worried about!! This film has a running time of 88 minutes Monsters Inc is presented to you by Walt Disney and Pixar Animations. I have the DVD version of this film and bought it for £15.99 ...

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~ Introduction ~ I watched this film on DVD a couple of weeks back, prompted by reading many raving reviews but still not really knowing what to expect in terms of the quality of this production. Monsters Inc is a CGI (computer generated imagery) movie, I am not really a great fan of such movies after watching films like Final Fantasy as it seemed to be too false, however this film in my point of view is an absolute master-piece that is put together ...
...they have a number of successes under their belt, including ‘Toy Story I & II’ and ‘A Bugs Life’. Director: Pete Docter, Lee Unkrich Length: 95 minutes Certificate: U ~ Story ~ The story is centred around a parallel world that the monsters live in named ‘Monstropolis’, in particular the ‘Monsters Inc’ factory – the factory actually powers Monstropolis and the power is obtained by the monsters ...

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As the adverts and trailers had finished and the film was about to start-I was in a heroicly bad mood. Despite having watched some brilliant movies at the end of 2001 (Lord of the Rings, AI and Amelie) my cynicism for the cinema had reached an altime low. I decided to list the many things that were annoying me at this point: 1) The ticket cost £6.50. I could probably fly to Bulgaria and set up a chip shop with that sort of money 2) A couple of the ...
...Never Land' and 'Cinderella 2' almost had me going green and muscly and bursting out of my shirt. (As opposed to white and skinny and taking my coat off) Had Disney lost all sense of decency? Had they given up completely? I turned to a friend and said with the deepest sarcasm possible: 'what next? Beauty and the Beast 2?' He replied: 'yeah they've dont that one too' 3) I had been to the cinema the previous week to see Vanilla Sky (very disappointing) ...

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...cardboard cut outs of the monsters, and every film I had seen in the cinema recently had trailers for the movie! So off I went, I’m glad I did too, as not only was it a great film, but it’s the first time I’ve sat through an entire animated film since The Lion King, I haven’t even watched Toy Story yet, however, I might now! I got into the cinema, sat down with me huge coke and watched the adverts, then the trailers, only ...
...Hmmm I thought, another 5 minutes of boredom. I was surprised, what this short film actually has to do with the film monsters Inc itself is beyond me, but still, it’s one way to get the short film some publicity. However, the film just gets you ready for the main feature. ‘The Bird’s’ may only be a few minutes long, but it is surprisingly funny, even if a bit stupid and unnecessary. I hope they stick it on the DVD when it ...

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...scary about most of the monsters, many of which have to put in their false teeth before they enter the children’s rooms. Over the years, scaring children has proven to be a very successful enterprise and has kept Monstropolis in plentiful supplies of energy. The scarers maintain a league table of who has scared the most children, and Sully is currently the reigning champion. The monsters’ only fear is of the children themselves, whom ...
...sizes and colours, with slimy monsters, tentacled monsters, furry monsters and so much more. Mike (Billy Crystal) and Sully (John Goodman) are so very different, but complement one another completely, and they each have very different strengths. Sully’s most endearing features are probably his lovely soft, blue fur and his big eyes. Mike’s appeal is undoubtedly that of his huge eye, which manages to show an enormous range of expressions ...

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...a parallel world inhabited by monsters, the city of Monstropolis. The city itself is much the same as any worldly city that we know, but it has only one source of power. Scream. They bottle the screams of human children to power their city and world! A select team of monsters are given access to the bedrooms of our children. They appear in the rooms of the little ones through wardrobe doors and scare the wits out of the kids, bottling the energy ...
...the power plant. If you ever wondered why a child wakes up screaming in the night, you now know! So, who are the key players in Monstropolis? Well, there is our hero, Sully, a giant blue hairy creature who actually seems quite loveable until he appears in a bedroom (voice by John Goodman). His flat mate is Mikey, a little one eyed green creature (voice by Billy Crystal) who works in tandem with Sully in the Monsters Inc factory. Sully scares, Mikey ...

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Monsters Inc is an animation brought to you by the studios of Pixar and Disney. Its a feature film about a monster world in which James P Sullivan (the big blue and purple one) and Mike (the one eyed green one) both live. They both work at Monsters Incorporated, a factory where monsters create energy that fuels the city buy collecting screams from children over in the human world. This is done by entering the children's bedrooms at night through ...
...canisters. These monsters may make their living scaring children, but they're not baddies in any way shape or form and this film is so unique in that although the monsters are scaring children, they're still the good guys. The monsters are in fact scared of the children, in that any human contact is seen as toxic so, although they are scaring them, they are also trying to desperatly avoid being touched by them too. The movie lets us join in with ...

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...is one main difference to Monsters, Inc than other Pixar films, John Lasseter has neither directed or wrote this film but has stayed behind and produced the film. His absence can be felt and, unfortunately, without him Monsters, Inc stumbles where Toy Story 1 & 2 excelled. It is common knowledge that Pixar, as well as animating cracking films can also write superbly as well. There are many in jokes in Toy Story 1 and especially 2 to keep the adults ...
...other kids movies. However Monsters, Inc fails to be quite as sophisticated when it comes to the script as animation. This cannot solely be because of Lassester’s absence there is only so much one person can do. The main reason is because of the characters. Monsters, Inc biggest disadvantage is having a two-year-old girl as a main character. Because of this there is hardly going to be some mind-blowing conversations to be had and while dialogue between ...

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This is a review of the standard edition DVD, not the collectors edition which has extra features on it, but of course is more expensive! You don’t get a fancy box with the collectors edition either, so in my view it’s not worth buying, just an extra source of revenue for Disney. I loved Monsters Inc so much at the cinema that the first day the DVD was available to buy, I bought it! I’m not the kind of guy who jumps to a DVD as ...
...to go down first, makes sense see, afterall, a couple of months after they have hit the shops and are retreating back in the charts, the suddenly go down to £9.99 from about £14.99! But Monsters Inc just had to be bought there and then! The Story Ok, so a quick run down, there are plenty of opinions out there on the film, including mine (blatant plug eh!?) that will do the film justice, but I’m reviewing the DVD. PLOT The film revolves around ...

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Is there anyone out there in the sane world who hasn't heard of Monsters Inc.? Is there even a single soul wo hasn't been bombarded with the merchandise, the adverts, the product tie-ins and every other conceivable cash in? Yes it seems like years since Monsters Inc. was first being revealed to the public, but only now has it hit multiplexes in the UK. Now there's a problem with this and hardened cinema goers will be all too familiar with it: expectation. ...
...critics and the studios have insisted that the new product is the best thing ever. We're jaded and more cynical now and it was this change that made me just that little bit scared of Monsters Inc. I was all too ready to be let down by Hollywood again, but surely the nice people in movie land wouldn't lie to me... The giant Monsters Inc. corporation supplies power to the fair land of monsters but they're not having a good time of it. Relying on the ...

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...out by the staff of Monsters, Inc. – and it’s here that our heroes Mike and Sully (played by Billy Crystal and John Goodman respectively) work. Sully is the company’s top “scarer”, and Mike is his assistant, staying on the monster side to loadin/unloading scream canisters. Deeply jealous of their unbeaten scream record is Randall (Steve Buscemi), a cool chameleonic lizard-monster, who has a plan to beat the heroes to the top spot. This plan goes ...
...world, and Mike & Sully must try to get her back home, without attracting the attention of the “CDA” (Child Detection Agency) who may just incinerate her… * * * * * Whilst many reviews have praised this movie for breaking ground, as I walked away from the cinema, there was a phrase that kept running through my brain, which I’d like to share with you now: “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue”. What relevance does this ...

peppersinclaire 11.02.2002 (16.11.2002) · Read full review
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Why must Hollywood continue to churn out such a mix of films? Why cant they all just be like Monsters Inc. The recent spate of animated films; Toy Story one and two, Chicken Run, A Bugs Life and Antz not to mention Shrek (which had its moments, but Im not forgiving Mike Myers for that accent anytime soon) have been excellent and thankfully Monsters Inc safely tops them all as the most pleasing and entertaining cartoon you’ll see all year. I ...
...more evil henchman get hit in the groin…) as they are basically dreadful. Kids are seen as easy money by the film industry and consequently we can look forward to Cinderella 2, Dumbo 2 and the simply heinous Bambi 2. Exactly what are they going to call them ; Beauty and the Beast 2: The Beast is Back, or Dumbo 2: An Elephant Never Forgets: The Revenge. So naturally I was wary when I downloaded Monsters Inc (you didn’t think id shell out ...

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...that kids are poisonous to monsters, one touch could be deadly and even the whiff of a sock is enough to attract the attentions of the boys in yellow, the CDA (Child Detection Agency) who have a fairly extreme and brutal decontamination program. Returning to the scare-floor late one night Sulley finds that Randall, in an attempt to break the record, has been putting in a little bit of unauthorised scaring and has unwittingly unleashed a deadly force ...
...couple of tears and enough monsters, colour, noise and movement to keep the kids happy. The movie has a “U” certificate. Absolutely nothing to offend. Oh and make sure you get to the cinema in plenty time or else you’ll miss the animated short “For the Birds” which precedes the main feature: short, sweet and oh so funny. And don’t leave at the end or else you’ll miss the excellent “out-takes” ...

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