Monsters, Inc. (2001)

Director: Pete Docter Co-directors: David Silverman, Lee Unkrich
Writer: Story: Pete Docter, Jill Culton, Jeff Pidgeon, Ralph Eggleston Screenplay: Andrew Stanton, Daniel Gerson Additional screenplay material: Robert L. Baird, Rhett Reese, Jonathan Roberts
Voice-Cast: John Gooman, Billy Crystal, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi, James Coburn, Jennifer Tilly, Bob Peterson
Genre: Animated, Family, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Monsters, Inc. takes us to Monstropolis, a city populated by monsters of the kind coming out of your closet when you tried sleeping as a child. Monstropolis have energy crisis, but their everyday are not fueled by oil. coal or the likes. Their electricity is made from the screams of scared children, thanks to the work at the scare factory, Monsters, Inc.. A factory where monsters works in pairs, scaring kids to collect their screams. Top scarers are Sully (Goodman) and his helper Mike (Crystal), and we follow their lifes.

What scares monsters? Kids. The big scare is being touched by kids, and the monster's lives is getting tougher. Kids watch TV and movies, play video games and isn't as easily scared as they used to be, making some kids more curious than scared; resulting in kids trying to touch their monsters. Life as we know it in Metropolis changes as soon as a kid gets into the monster world, and therein lies our story as Sully was responsible of letting it in.

The premise is very good, the characters are diverse and enjoyable enough and the moral doesn't ruin the storytelling. Still they forget the funny a little too often to really entertain us like other animated movies does. All in all a pleasant experience though, but I don't think they'll hold on to the top 250 IMDB-spot much longer.