Monsters, Inc.

I took my kids to see "Monsters, Inc." last night. The graphics for the main characters were strong, but many of the peripheral characters were rendered very simplistically. They clearly spent a lot of time getting Sully's fur to look right, and it did look great. The human toddler (Boo) was rendered too simplistically for my taste, and I think it would have been better to give her some speaking lines. My three-year old is scared of monsters, but he has been talking fluently for over a year.



The plot and themes were strong (not as good as Toy Story I or II, but much better than Bug's Life). The movie was a bit scarier for my kids than I expected, and the pace was quite frantic at times. There was a scene in which a SWAT team decontaminates a monster who came in contact with a human sock. There is an extended chase scene that may make some people motion-sick. The villians are pretty creepy, and there is a horrific machine that sucks screams out of children. (Too graphic/scary for my liking.)



The point of the story is that kids' laughter is much more powerful than fear. It sounds stupid and simplistic, but when Sully (the leading scarer) unintentionally scares Boo, he realizes how many kids he has scared over the years. I'd hate to think how many times I've scared my kids by yelling at them. I resolved to try to never scream at my kids again. Of course, I've made that resolution several times, but maybe this time I'll stick to it.



I was expecting a light night of family fare and instead got slapped in the face with a clue-by-four. Maybe that is why I didn't like it as much as I'd anticipated.



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