Monsters, Inc.

Monsters Inc is a film produced by Pixar Animation Studios, distributed by Walt Disney Pictures and directed by Pete Docter. It was released in November 2, 2001 and was a major success. It won the Academy Award for best Original Song for the theme “If I didn’t have you”, and was nominated for three other Academy Awards. The dubbing actors that worked in this film are John Goodman as Sully, Billy Crystal as Mike, James Coburn as Mr. Waternoose, Steve Buscemi as Randall and Mary Gibbs as Boo, the little girl.

The film is about two monsters, James P. Sullivan (known as Sully) and Mike Wazowski, who both work at an important enterprise called Monsters Inc. This factory is in charge of providing energy to the whole city of Monstropolis. This energy comes from the Scream Heat that is obtained by scaring children and getting their screams’ energy. This is a difficult task as kids are toxic to monsters.

Now the city of the monsters is facing a big crisis: kids are not as easy to scare as they used to be. These two friends work together to solve this situation but have an unexpected problem: a little human girl enters their world. They have to take care of her and defeat the villains of the story: Henry J. Waternoose who is the owner of the company, Randall Boggs, the main rival of Sully and his assistant, Jeff Fungus.

This film is not like any other children tales that want to tell kids that monsters doesn’t exist; this story is about telling kids that everyone has monsters hidden in their closets but that they are as afraid of us as we are of them, even more. We don’t have to fear our monsters, we can be friends with them so when we grow older, they would disappear.

But this is not the only moral of the story, there are a lot more. One of the main ones is at the end of the film. I’m not going to make an spoiler, I’m just going to tell the lesson that the film is trying to tell us: that there is always another way of doing things, a better way that doesn’t harm anyone.

I hardly recommend this film, not only for it’s amazing characters, picture and drawing, but for the story itself. It would make you laugh and cry and it doesn’t matter if you are not a child anymore, you would enjoy it as well.