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July 06, 2002

Monsters INC

Toy Story 3 ?

It's a fantastically well made film, not a dull moment, far more to see and hear than it's possible to manage in one viewing. Children and parents will love it, and I suspect that a lot of adults without children will find an excuse to see it too.

Sully is a big blue monster. He lives and works in a parallel world that is hidden behind the closet doors in children's bedrooms. His job on the production line is to leap through a procession of doors and scare the bejesus out of the kids so that their screams can be harvested as energy to power the monster's world. He's a nice guy, John Goodman does the voice. He has a wise-cracking one-eyed monster sidekick voiced by Billy Crystal.

But things are not well in Monstertopia; scream quotas are down, power cuts are imminent, and Sully's rival on the scream/week competition is cheating. After hours, Sully finds a door out of place, and looks inside. A tiny girl escapes into the Monster's world, and all hell breaks loose. Sully and sidekick try and keep her hidden, as they think children are toxic and they will lose their jobs if she is discovered. But the factory boss and the rival have other plans, they want to take her and attach her to a new machine that will torture screams out of her for the powerplant.

So, we have a big chase. This is where a scene with thousands of doors that is very reminiscent of the airport baggage conveyorbelts from Toy Story happens. But Sully rescues the child, the baddies get arrested, and it is discovered that children's laughs are 10 times more powerful energy than their screams, so the monsters retrain to amuse kids, and everyone lives happily ever after.

There is so much more to describe about this film, with many amusing side characters and sub-plots. You will definitely want to see it twice, and no one can fail to be amused and charmed by this masterpiece.

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Posted by se71 at July 6, 2002 11:12 AM

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