Monsters Inc

Monsters Inc is an American animated film by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by the Walt Disney Company.

## *Monsters Inc*

### Directed by

Pete Docter, Lee Unkrich, David Silverman

### Written by

Pete Docter, Jill Culton, Jeff Pidgeon, Ralph Eggleston(original story by), Andrew Stanton, Daniel Gerson(screenplay by)

### Produced by

Darla K. Anderson, (producer)Karen Dufilho-Rosen, (co-producer: Company play)John Lasseter, (executive producer), Kori Rae, (associate producer)Andrew Stanton, (executive producer)

## What makes it Dark Family Fun

While neither a horror nor a gothic fairytale, Monsters Inc is fun for kids and kids at heart who are fascinated with the creatures that lurk in their rooms at night. It is fun and appealing to all kinds of people and wittily depicts monsters as civil people who scare children to harness their screams into energy for their city, a concept that both unnerves you and makes you smile. Crawling with quirky gags and mock terror involving an escaped child and the frightened monsters, this Pixar classic plays with the concept of fear and adds something unexpecting and fun for everyone.

### What parents should know

This film is hardly frightening at all, and most of the monsters are friendly and almost cute, but it may get a little creepy for younger children. There is a conspiracy involving a plan to kidnap children and force their screams out with a painful looking device. The villains behind it may be a bit frightening to the smallest children. Some G rated insults and contention. Tame slapstick violence, including a mildly disturbing incident with the scream collecting device.

## Cast

John Goodman... Sullivan

Billy Crystal... Mike

Mary Gibbs... Boo

Steve Buscemi... Randall

James Coburn... Waternoose

Jennifer Tilly... Celia

Bob Peterson... Roz

John Ratzenberger... Yeti

Frank Oz... Fungus

Daniel Gerson... Needleman & Smitty

Steve Susskind... Floor Manager

Bonnie Hunt... Flint

Jeff Pigeon... Bile

Samuel Lord Black... George Sanderson

Jack Angel... Additional Voices

Bob Bergen... Schmidt

Bret "Brook" Parker... Monster kid / Trailer Mom

Phil Procter... Charlie

Joe Ranft... Ward

## Songs

If I Didn't Have You... Music and Lyrics by Randy Newman

## Trivia

* John Goodman and Billy Crystal sometimes recorded their lines in the same room together, an unusual move for animated films, where actors more often work alone. Steve Buscemi and Frank Oz (Randall and his assistant Fungus) also recorded their lines together for the bathroom scene.
* The scoreboard at the scare floor consists of names of Pixar staff members.
* There are retro Disneyland posters in the Monstropolis travel store and some of the children's bedrooms.
* When Sulley greets Ted (the monster so big we only see the lower half of his body), Ted was originally supposed to roar like Godzilla. The filmmakers asked permission from Toho (Godzilla's film studio) to use a Godzilla roar, but Toho turned them down, so Ted responds with a chicken cluck instead. In one of the credit bloopers, though, he was revealed to be a dinosaur - Rex, from Toy Story (1995) - auditioning for a role in the movie.
* In the International version, the slogan 'We Scare Because We Care' doesn't appear on the TV set. However, Waternoose still says the slogan. Also, many other picture inscriptions (like the title of Waternoose as chairman of Monsters, Inc.) are omitted from the TV advertising and from other ad posters seen later during the film.
* Mike says that Sulley has been wanting his good looks since 4th grade, but they first met in college. Pixar knew about the quote. According to the behind scenes of *Monsters University* they tried to work that quote into the movie by having them first meet in Elementary School, however they could not in order to have the film's story be more constant. So they said it was an "old monster saying."
* Highest-grossing animated film released to its date.
* One shot of Sulley trying to tell Boo to go to sleep was replaced for the non-English versions of the film. This was because his hand gestures, miming the phrase "You go to sleep", are so closely related to the individual words (for example, holding up two fingers for the word "to") that dubbing the shot into other languages would have proved too difficult.
* The ingredient list on the cereal that Sulley feeds Boo is as follows: Tentacles (includes suckers), sugar pods, gelatin, artificial flavor, artificial color (Yellow 53 & 54, Red 400, Blue 21, Plaid 16, Puce 30), salt, seawater, naturally occurring mercury, barium, sulfuric acid, lead, bile, blood, sweat, tears, zinc oxide, vitamins D & F, anemone, brine shrimp, coral, plankton, deadly pufferfish, depleted uranium (to preserve freshness).

## External Links

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0198781/?ref\_=nv\_sr\_srsg\_6

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Monsters,\_Inc.