What are we gonna do? Waltz right up to the factory?

Rating: 9/10 (16 June 2008)

Monsters in the closet scaring kids within this world are not doing so out of any desire to do harm ...They are just doing their job. That is in this Pixar filum that introduced James P. Sullivan and Mike Wazowski to the world, two monsters whose job it is to scare kids, where their screams are processed and turned into clean dependable energy. That is until a little girl named Boo enters the world and changes how things are done forever.
This film was beaten by Spirited Away at the Oscars but there is little to choose between them, especially as they focus on the story of a little girl whose journey takes her to a strange world inhabited by bizarre creatures.
The voice work by Billy Crystal and John Goodman is superb, and as you'd expect from Pixar the story and script are first rate, the direction is top drawer and the animation a vast improvement on the work done on "Toy Story 2".
This is an excellent film that's fun for the family, carries a good environmental message about renewable energy that will hopefully inspire the next generation that's coming along, is funny, charming and will make you laugh, cry and cheer as the antics of these big monsters keep your little monsters entertained for hours.