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Monsters Inc. [2002]
from Buena Vista Home Entertainment
starring Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi, James Coburn
directed by David Silverman, Lee Unkrich, Pete Docter

Features:

• Dubbed
• Full Screen
• PAL

Editorial Review:

The monsters in Monsters, Inc. are just so incredibly cute--and they know it. Whereas Woody, Buzz and pals in the Toy Story saga were filled with self-doubt about just how much the children in their lives would continue to love them, here our heroic monsters and their impossibly lovable human ward Boo have no such worries, at least when it comes to the cinema audience. And that's why Monsters, Inc., for all its wondrous computer-animated artistry, its smart humour and its family-friendly appeal, doesn't quite capture the naïve charm of its predecessors.

Nevertheless, John Goodman and Billy Crystal, as scare-champions Sulley and Mike, are a great double-act whose comedy never goes over kids' heads but still reaches up to make their parents laugh. The film's central conceit--that monsters in the bedroom closet are just doing a night's work in order to generate power from screams for the city of Monstropolis--is funny and cleverly worked out; and kids will of course love the fact that the monsters are mortally afraid of the very children they are trying to frighten.

The animation is extraordinarily detailed (Sulley's fur is a marvel in itself) and the set-piece action sequences top anything that has gone before for sheer audaciousness. But overall Pixar play things very safe, from the hissable villain to the end credit "outtakes". A bolder film might have taken inspiration from The Nightmare Before Christmas; instead, a little of that Disney disease of knowing cuteness seems to have crept into the formula. --Mark Walker

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• NOT WIDESCREEN VERSION!
  Be aware, this is the 4:3, not the Widescreen version!
  Easy to buy it by mistake as 99.9% of DVDs are widescreen!

• One of the best!!
  This has got to be one of the best Disney movies by far. This is a great family movie for young & old. My kids never tire of the adventures of Mike & Sully!!

• monster inc.
  hi !
  well to start of my daught had watched monster inc.
  and begged me to get it and because it had only just
  came out it was £10+ and couldnt beleive it when its
  only now £7 in shops and only £4.50 on here !!!! its
  a great buy and really funny ! espeicially for a family
  night ! ACE
  

• A great family animation - Pixar brilliance
  Pixar have earned a glowing reputation over the last two decades by creating heart warming and humorous family films, and Monsters Inc is yet another animated masterpiece.
  From the great adventures of Woody and Buzz in the Toy Story franchise to The superheroes in The Incredibles, Pixar have become an established company in the film animation industry and this 2001 hit about monsters is one of their best.
  From director Pete Docter, comes a story about Sully and Mike, two scarers in the Monsters... more info

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