Wonderful animated movie!

Rating: 10/10 (4 March 2002)

This movie is just plain wonderful! Incredibly funny, told with a great tempo and with a lot of humour. No dead moments at all! The story is based on a single assumptions, that monsters in the closet are real, and that they scare little kids in order to get energy to power their city. From this assumption, a wonderful story about a big threat to this lifestyle and kids everywhere is spun.
On the visual nitpicking side, the computer animations are better than earlier attempts like Toy Story, but they are still somewhat deficient when it comes to humans. The hair on the main character Sulley is superb, and there is a wonderful sleighride scene with swirling snow that is exquisite! However, the humans are still doll-like, and the complexity of human hair has not been handled. Most of the monsters look like slightly soft rubber, which is a bit disappointing... for some reason, it does not look quite right (except for the furry monsters).
But the movie does not depend on the computer generated graphics to entertain, it would have been just as much fun if it had been handdrawn the old way. Computer graphics allow for more dramatic pans and roller-coaster rides, and are good enough not to detract from the action, which is quality enough.
Here in Sweden, there was a short movie about birds before the main movie, which was just wonderfully hilarious. It would be very nice to see more of that kind; little animated movies are definitely fun before the main course!