Monsters, Inc.

Monsters, Inc. is a charming and technically superb animated film with a tendency towards the cute. That is not entirely a bad thing, though, for it means the film can be watched by both children and adults.

Most small children are afraid of sleeping in the dark, for what if the monsters under the bed and in the wardrobe come and take them! This fear gave the screenwriters Stanton and Gerson the idea for a whimsical and well-told story about the friendship between the monster Sulley and the little girl Boo.

Sulley enjoys his job at the Monsters, Inc. factory, where his task is to come out of wardrobes and strike terror into children. The children's screams are the energy that keeps the entire monster society going. It is therefore ironic that all the monsters are terrified of human children.

Only the little girl Boo has grasped that both monsters and children are harmless. It is actually Sulley's fault that Boo gets into the monsters' world, so he tries to make amends. Very much against his will he grows fond of the little girl, so the only acceptable solution to the problem is to get her home again. Boo does not stand a chance, however, if it is discovered that Sulley is hiding her. Sulley gets help from his faithful friend Mike Wazowski, but he also needs all the help he can get against his rival Randall Boggs, who would like to get his hands on Boo.