MONSTERS INC (DVD/2 DISC/FF 1.33/WS 1.85 ANAMORPHIThe folks at Pixar can do no wrong with Monsters, Inc., the studio’s fourth feature film, which stretches the computer animation format in terms of both technical complexity and emotional impact. The giant, blue-furred James P. “Sulley” Sullivan (wonderfully voiced by John Goodman) is a scare-monster extraordinaire in the hidden world of Monstropolis, where the scaring of kids is an imperative in order to keep the entire city running. Beyond the competition to be the best at the business, Sullivan and his assistant, the one-eyed Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal), discover what happens when the real world interacts with theirs in the form of a 2-year-old baby girl dubbed “Boo,” who accidentally sneaks into the monster world with Sulley one night. Director Pete Doctor and codirectors David Silverman and Lee Unkrich follow the Pixar (Toy Story) blueprint with an imaginative scenario, fun characters, and ace comic timing. By the last heart-tugging shot, kids may never look at monsters the same, nor artists at what computer animation can do in the hands of magicians. –Doug Thomas
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January 10, 2006
#1
Disney is known for putting out bad movies, but this is hands down the worst movie ever released by Disney. The monsters didn’t scare me at all and everything was so unrealistic. I thought monsters were scary? Instead of achieving the horror of a good monster movie we receive the buffonery of some teen fad movie.
January 10, 2006
#2
Do not wast your time and money. a tigger movie.
January 10, 2006
#3
Monsters Inc. does not have the magic of the Toy Story series. The story is long, boring and doesn’t have any of the creativity of it’s predecessors. Mighty Casey has struck out.
January 10, 2006
#4
For a start, the one-eyed monster is a rip-off of the space monster
in the Simpsons. Same goes for some other monster elements and the
breaking-voiced maintenance worker boy character. One big
difference with the Simpsons however is that the Simpsons is funny
and this was pathetically unfunny. From the rip-off starting
premise, the concept then becomes tediously convoluted – in other
words, a 95-minute mess (not that I was able to endure the entire
95 minutes). Once again, Disney tries to appeal to all age groups
but fails to appeal to any age group as a lot of material is too
scarey for small children and too trite for grown-ups. I lasted
for about 20 minutes and then I hit the 2X speed on the DVD and
then 4X speed to spool through about another half hour, and then
finally the STOP button followed by the EJECT button.
January 10, 2006
#5
Am I the only one who thought this stunningly visual film was completely ruined by going W A Y overboard on the cutesy cutesy baby girl aspect? Don’t get me wrong : I realize that family fare such as this is aimed at “little ones” and those who love them (as I do) but C’MON! This is one of the rare computer-animated releases that will NEVER darken my shelf and certainly never clog my DVD player. Enjoy, all ye sappy-syrupy cravers !