Monsters Inc.
Directed by Peter Docter
Monsters Inc. is a CGI cartoon
by Toy Story boys Pixar. It features a workforce
of dopey monsters whose day job is to harvest
the screams of young children. Fair enough.
Monsters Inc gives us yet another animated
odd couple, a likeable yeti with lots and lots
of computer generated hair (vocals: John Goodman)
and a bloody awful green eyeball monster (Billy
Crystal.) Anyway, a small infant, "Boo",
escapes, so to speak into the monsters' factory
and monumental havoc ensues.
Monsters Inc. has its creative moments
but amazingly, the monsters were not interesting
enough. But there are a couple of brilliant
exceptions. Best of all is Randall. Oh what
a work of genius, a product of joy! Randall
is the villain of the piece and he steels ALL
his scenes. Give the beast a movie to himself!
Randall sports the shiftiest countenance ever
conceived by man and the way he slinks and slithers
and slides and leaps is a sheer wonder. All
through the movie I was impatiently waiting
for MORE RANDALL!
There is a fantastic minor character two, a
headmistressy harridan of a monster. "Where's
your paperwork?" she would snarl. What
a battle axe. How the blood chills. Oh my.
But Monsters Inc. is blemished.
Why have an irritating green eyeball in a testicle
sidekick character? All that irksome jabber
jabber jabber made him the opposite of Randall
- boring. He competes with Donkey from
Shrek for the gold medal
for most tiresome sidekick. I severely hope
this isn't a trend. Imagine if Buzz Lightyear
was a stupid, yabbering pain in the arse, instead
of a stupid, pompous (and extremely likeable)
hero. Imagine how crap Toy Story would have
been.
Eadon's first commandment of comedies - sidekicks
shalt not subject the audience to psuedo-comedic
yabbering gibberish throughout every scene they're
in.
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They ruined the ending of this movie.
Why the hell did they have Sulley visit
Boo again at the very end?? The original
bittersweet goodbye was spot on. They
had a perfect, natural ending. Then they
tacked on another ending, this one being
contrived, forced and sickly. This smacks
of sheer, crass stupidity. Were focus
groups involved or the usual clueless
execs - or both?
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