One of the five finest films of 2001.

Rating: 9/10 (3 November 2001)

Exciting, humorous, longing, tension-filled, cute... Pixar's new "Monsters Inc." covers an enormous range of emotions in the course of its hour-and-a-half running time. Frankly, it feels quite a bit longer than that -- the movie absolutely draws you in.
John Sullivan ("Sully" - voiced by John Goodman) and Mike Koslowski (voiced by, of all people, Billy Crystal!) are the top "scaring" team at Monsters Inc. -- a major company in another dimension, where the society is powered by the energy contained in kids' screams. To ensure that there is power to run Monstropolis' everyday society, the Monsters need to keep scaring kids and getting those screams -- "We scare because we care" is the corporate slogan, showing that M.I. is the driving force behind that dimension's economy and society.
Close behind Sully and Mike, though, is the treacherous Randall (voiced by Steve Buscemi), a multi-limbed chameleon-like monster with a scheme to top Sully and Mike and keep the company in the black. Naturally, things start to go wrong when a human child from the other side manages to get into the Monster's dimensions... particularly since common knowledge holds that kids are actually toxic and poisonous to monsters!
You'll gasp in awe, you'll be convulsed with laughter, and you'll smile sadly at the amazing visions, witty humor, and brilliant storyline. I cannot recommend this film enough; I'd go see it multiple times at full price in the theaters.
(This is, of course, helped by the "introductory" animation -- a hilarious piece called "For the Birds". *grin*)
P.S. - my guess is that Pixar put together their standard run of "bloopers" for the film, to be run during the credits, but are holding the new credits back a month or so to get people to come and see the film again during the Christmas season. I'm pretty certain I will!