Monsters, Monsters, Everywhere
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A cute kids movie that I watched many times with my kids. Monsters are everywhere and this one will delight you with a smiley.
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The story takes place in Monstropolis, a city populated entirely by monsters. Monstropolis is not part of the human world, but it can be connected to children's bedrooms through their closet doors. When a door is properly activated, it becomes a portal between the monster world and the human world. The city's power supply is provided by Monsters, Inc., a utility company that employs monsters to scare children and extract energy from their screams. The company has a huge warehouse full of doors, work areas called "scare floors" where the doors are activated, and a special training room in which employees practice their scare skills. The company's best scarer is James "Sulley" Sullivan (Goodman), whose assistant is his best friend, Michael "Mike" Wazowski (Crystal). Sulley's main rival is Randall Boggs (Buscemi), and the company's CEO is Henry J. Waternoose III (Coburn). Monstropolis is in the middle of an energy crisis because children are harder to scare than they used to be.
One day Sulley sees an activated door on his scare floor after the workday has ended. He finds no one in the room behind the door, but a little 3-year-old girl (Gibbs) follows him back into the monster world. Far from being scared, she calls him "Kitty" and delights in playing with him. Since monsters believe human beings are dangerously toxic, Sulley repeatedly returns the girl to her room, but she keeps following him back, and Randall eventually deactivates the door. Her presence becomes public knowledge when Sulley sneaks her into a restaurant, so Sulley and Mike hide her in Sulley's home while the Child Detection Agency (CDA) searches for her. Sulley names the girl "Boo". He discovers that her laughter produces even more energy than her screams, and he slowly bonds with her after realizing that she is not poisonous.
The next morning Sully and Mike disguise Boo in a monster costume and sneak her into work. Randall agrees to help them return her to her bedroom, but when Mike enters the room, Randall captures him in a box, believing he is Boo. Randall intends to kidnap Boo and subject her to a device that extracts her screams.
What follows is a sequence of battles, chases, and mishaps in which Sully and Mike try to protect Boo from Randall and his scream machine. Waternoose reveals that he is in cahoots with Randall and sends Sully and Mike to the Himalayas, where they meet the Abominable Snowman (John Ratzenberger), and the sequence ends with a chase through the company's roller-coaster-like door-moving system. When the energy in Boo's laughter activates the doors in storage, the chase passes in and out of the human world. Finally, Sulley and Boo defeat Randall. Sully throws Randall through the door of a trailer-park trailer, where a woman beats Randall with a shovel, and Mike destroys the door to make sure Randall never comes back.
When Sulley and Mike bring Boo and her door to the scare floor, Waternoose is waiting to arrest them with a gang of CDA agents, but Mike leads the agents away by fleeing with Boo's monster costume, and Sulley escapes with Boo and the door. When Waternoose follows Sulley and Boo, Sulley activates the door, and when Waternoose follows them into the room behind the door, he tells Sulley he is willing to kidnap children in order to save the company. However, rather than connecting Boo's door to her bedroom, Sulley connected it to the Monsters, Inc. training room, which is equipped with a video monitoring system. Mike has recorded Waternoose's confession, and after he replays the confession, CDA agents arrest Waternoose.
With the scream-machine plot foiled, the CDA agents call in their leader, who has been working undercover as Roz (Bob Peterson), the company's bookkeeper. Mike says goodbye to Boo and Sulley returns her to her bedroom, then Roz has the door shredded, preventing monsters from ever visiting Boo again. Sulley keeps one of the wood splinters as a memento.
Some time later Sulley is the CEO of Monsters, Inc., and the company has ended the energy crisis with his policy of having monsters make children laugh instead of scaring them. Meanwhile, Mike has collected and reassembled the pieces of Boo's shredded door. When Sulley puts his piece in its place, the door is activated again, and when he peeks into Boo's room, she greets him.
The credits (theatrical version) or bonus features (home video) include a series of simulated outtakes and an amateur stage performance played by Mike and other Monsters, Inc. employees.
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