Monsters, Inc. (2001) on Netflix
G20011h 32mAdventureAnimationComedy
Monstropolis runs on the screams of human children, collected by scarers who step through closet doors. Top scarer Sulley and his assistant Mike Wazowski find a toddler loose in their world.
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Plot summary
Scream energy keeps the city of Monstropolis lit, and the scarers at the Monsters, Inc. factory are the ones who gather it, stepping through doors that become portals inside children's closets. A child's touch is rumored to be lethal to a monster, so the work is treated as dangerous, and children have grown harder to frighten, leaving the company short of energy. Sulley is the factory's best scarer, Mike Wazowski is his best friend and scare assistant, and Randall Boggs, who can shift his skin color to blend in, competes with them. One evening Sulley finds an active door left in Randall's station and, while looking it over, lets a toddler girl into the monster world. She gets loose in the city.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Monsters, Inc. (2001)
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- Bill Murray was considered for the voice of Sulley. He screen-tested for the role and was interested, but director Pete Docter was unable to make contact with him to formally offer the part.
- After sixteen nominations, the song "If I Didn't Have You" finally won Randy Newman his first Academy Award, for Best Original Song. During his acceptance speech he joked, "I don't want your pity".
- Among the challenges facing Pixar's engineers was animating a large number of hairs - 2,320,413 of them on Sulley - in a reasonably efficient way, and making sure that the hairs cast shadows on other ones.
- Billy Crystal took the role of Mike Wazowski partly because he still regretted turning down the part of Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story years earlier.
- A scene in which a restaurant is decontaminated originally ended in an explosion, but after the September 11 attacks the filmmakers replaced the blast with a harmless plasma dome instead.
- Artist Stanley Mouse separately sued Pixar in 2002, claiming Mike and Sulley were lifted from drawings for his own unsold 1998 film pitch Excuse My Dust, and that a Pixar story artist had visited and discussed his work with him in 2000.
- Shortly before release a songwriter sued Pixar, and her lawyer asked the court to forbid Pixar and Disney from releasing the film while the suit was pending. The day before the premiere the judge refused, and in June 2002 he ruled the film had nothing in common with her poem.
- The Monsters, Inc. DVD set a record for the most copies sold on a single day, 5 million, a record broken two months later by Spider-Man, though it stayed the top single-day mark for an animated film until Finding Nemo overtook it in 2003.
