Of course I am a huge Pixar fan, having loved all their films (well CARS was the worst) and I though Monsters, Inc. was up to their usual standards of greatest with a great story and characters that you really grow to love in a very short period of time. The animation is spectacular, from snow to Sulley’s hair, this film just shines, and anyone would love this film, animation fan or not.

REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS…

This is a world of monsters, where every creature is a monster, though most are not too scary in their personalities. The world they live in derives it’s power from scaring small children, but going in through their closets and scaring them and collecting the energy, but their is an energy shortage because kids are much more jaded today. The top scarer is a James P. “Sulley” Sullivan (John Goodman) a giant blue monster who works with Mike Wazowkski (Billy Crystal) a green one eyed monster. They work for Henry J. Waternoose (James Coburn) and their main competition is the slimy Randall Boggs (steve Buscemi) and his assistant Fungus (Frank Oz). Things are going fine, till Mike has a date with Celia (Jennifer Tilly) but he forgot his paperwork so Sully goes to find it, and finds a single door at Randall’s station and the girl inside, who he calls Boo (Mary Gibbs, one of the pixar kids who voiced the character at a very young age) has escaped and all heck breaks loose, and Monsters are scared to death of humans who they think can contaminate and kill them. Sully begins to love the loving little Boo, and they just want to return her to her world, but Randall has other plans to scare her to death and gain more energy, but they save her, while noticing that her laughs seem to be more powerful than her fright, but when they tell Waternoose, he is in on it with Randall and they are Banished to the human world with The Abominable Snowman (John Ratzenberger). Sully goes back to save Boo, and with Mike’s help they manage it, going through all the closet doors and getting Boo home, but having her door destroyed as they tell the authorities of the plot going on. And the world changes and the Monster start using laughter and Mike becomes the top laugher and he helps restore Boo’s door so Sully can visit his little friend.

This is really another magical film by Pixar and Billy Crystal is hysterical, so this is an absolute must see!