Why Monsters Inc is the Cleverest Movie Ever Made

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Another interesting thing is the writers taking the idea of "that thing you're scared of is more scared of you than you are of it", something I'm sure most people have heard their parents tell them, and working that into the actual plot of the movie by having the monsters literally be more scared of the human children than the children are of them.

i miss the days when Pixar would put bloopers during their credits, they were so unique and made the movie so memorable

I absolutely adore the detail that the Abominable snowman was banished. What a natural way of saying Big Foot, the Loch Ness Monster and the Kraken are all real monsters, living with humans after being banished

“See Mike? Ted’s walking to work” “Big deal, the guy takes three steps and he’s there” That short exchanges is one of my favorites

Monsters inc. is one of those movies that you’ll never forget even though it’s over 20 years old.

What's interesting when you consider Mike's arc in Monsters University is that Mike was essentially rejected socially for not being scary but with the new laugh-centric energy model his skills must definitely be valued and appreciated more than ever before, especially since he's a hard worker and studies/cultivates proper technique (could apply that to being funny).

Y'all definitely won't know this beforehand, but during the trash compactor scene, there were two agents searching for traces of human with something that clicks like a geiger counter. When these two saw Sully, they instantly abandoned their jobs to ask for his autograph. What you might not realize is the fact that the geiger counter were clicking wildly when it was directed as Sully, but the agents were too lost in their fangirling that they didn't even notice it (they even turned it off!). I rewatched the movie not too long ago, years after I last rewatched it, and the only reason I noticed this was because I'm studying nuclear engineering, so geiger counter clicks pretty much incites a pavlovian response from me. I wouldn't've been able to discern it otherwise.

This makes me feel a little sad, because Disney and Pixar seem like they have lost that magic they had. I hope they can regain the gift of a magical experience

In an earlier script Sully would have discovered a room full of child sized cages, but Pixar thought it was too dark so they cut it out.

One of the funniest scenes to me is the one where Sully thinks Boo is going through the trash cube compactor and he keeps fainting at every step of the process. The way he faints will always send meee

I believe the "fourth grade" line was probably Mike was being boastful and exaggerated. I could easily see Sulley saying "we didn't even know each other in the fourth grade".

So... How did Mike get down the mountain again if Scully used all the stuff in the cave to build a sled? I personally choose to believe that Mike make himself the center of a literal snowball.

One brilliant part about the movie often understated is how it disarms the idea of monsters. If you were of the age where you actually believed monsters might be in your closet (like I was when I saw this movie for the first time), seeing that monsters are actually scared of kids and will go away if you no longer get scared is a really encouraging and comforting thought for imaginative kids.

Why didn’t you mentioned how Waternoose’s design works perfectly as both “friendly grandfather” and “spider beast” for when his true nature is revealed and he’s chasing Boo

I always assumed “since the 4th grade” was a stand in for “as long as I can remember”. Like not meant to be taken literally

I've been watching Monsters University basically on repeat, and hearing you flesh out Monsters Inc. made me realize a detail I've missed. In M.U Dean Hardscrabble told Sully that his roar wouldn't make a child scream it would make them cry, and in the scene in M.I. when Sully scares the robot and Boo in the simulator, he uses the same face expression and roar, which makes Boo cries from fear and she doesn't scream. I just thought this detail was pretty cool, and that the writers for both movies had a great idea and executed it perfectly. :)

Monsters Inc is SUPER nostalgic to me so im glad it's getting attention even now

One of my favorite things about this movie is how all of the character designs are multipurpose. Sully and Waternoose genuinely look friendly and comforting when they’re just hanging out or being normal, but get genuinely terrifying when they are trying to be. Randall can be pretty intimidating with his unique set of powers, but his slick and calculated movements also shows his calculating and sleazy side. Mike and a few other “helper” monsters are designed to be otherworldly, but “normal” enough to for us to be able to contrast them with the “scarers”, to show what ordinary monsters look like. Even Celia, who was obviously just designed to make a more feminine looking monster, has the ability to crank up her intimidation factor during her “woman spurned” scene due to her Medusa hair. When I was younger, I was more scared of her in that scene than Randall.

Monsters Inc’s writing is SO UNDERRATED, I’m so glad to see someone else talk about it. It seems that everyone just remembers it for being very funny and the emotional scenes (which are valid as those parts are amazing as well) but the writing itself and the characters are so, so solid. Everything makes sense and all partes intertwine with each other, it’s so clever. Waternoose is a perfect example of how to do a realistic twist villain! And Sully and Mike’s friendship feels so real that their dialogue doesn’t even feel like it’s from a family movie sometimes.