Movie review: 'Monsters, Inc' back for a 3-D refresher
Disney-Pixar realized they'd hit on a can't-miss formula for animated blockbusters about the time “Monsters, Inc.” came out in 2001.
Find some fantastical corner of pop culture you can peek in on — after hours. From the lives of toys when the kids aren't around to where scary monsters go when they're not hiding in kids' closets or the private lives of clownfish, comic book superheroes or video game characters (Disney's new “Wreck-It Ralph”), these familiar but imaginary worlds have proved to be fertile ground for animation.
Whatever chances they take with the riskier “Up,” “Brave,” “Cars” or “Ratatouille,” taking children inside a world they have only imagined has been box office gold.
“Monsters, Inc.” may have lost the best animated film Oscar to “Shrek.” But ask any parent which film is aging better, and which DVD their children wear out, and the real winner emerges. Reason enough for a prequel, “Monsters, University,” to go into production. It comes out next June.
And that's a good excuse for converting the computer-animated “Monsters, Inc.” to 3-D for a special holiday release.
Whatever his other accomplishments (he's in theaters Christmas Day with “Parental Guidance”), generations of kids know Billy Crystal only for the comic stylings of Mike Wazowski, the one-eyed working stiff (monster) he plays in “Monsters, Inc.”
The perfect comic foil to Sulley (John Goodman), beau of the long-suffering and equally one-eyed Celia (Jennifer Tilly), nemesis of the slithery Randall (Steve Buscemi), Mike is the guy who keeps his pal Sulley in tip top scaring shape — ordering up the closet doors that the monsters go through to frighten children, whose screams are bottled and converted to the energy that keeps the monsters' world, and Monsters, Inc., going.
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