Monstrously good fun

Rating: Null/10 (4 November 2001)

Disney's traditional animation studio has offered pretty slim pickings in the last few years, and there don't seem to be many bright prospects for the future, either. Thank heavens for Pixar. In this, the first Pixar Studios feature to be directed by someone other than the renowned John Lasseter, monsters are revealed to be regular guys working for a paycheck just like everyone else.
Monsters, Inc. follows the misadventures of Mike and Sulley, a dynamic duo working at the Monsteropolis power plant. In their world, the screams of small children create the power that runs the city--and nobody's better at scaring kids than Sulley. He does a dangerous job (it's widely known that children are toxic), and he does it with pride.
Of course, in every workplace there's an office backstabber, and Monsters, Inc. has its own resident workplace bully in the person (monster?) of Randall, the second-best scarer in the factory. Through Randall's machinations, a child gets loose in the monster world, with disastrous results.