Monsters, Inc.: the review

This is my first actual post on the blog! Yay! (Somebody please tell me how you go about "winning" these things)

Monsters Inc. is about two monsters, Mike and Sully, who are “scarers” - monsters who go to the human world and scare little kids to collect their scream energy to power the monster world. Sully has a rivalry with Randall, who is competing with him for the world record for scaring kids. Sully discovers a door left available at night and investigates it, letting a kid out into the monster world. It is eventually discovered that Randall allowed this to happen so he could start taking people’s scream energy by force. Since Sully has taken a liking to the kid, he tries to get her back home. Mike and Sully have a big disagreement over whether it is a good idea to take care of the kid. This summary is out of sequence.

The most prevalent theme in this movie is love conquering all. I think. I mean, Sully loves the kid, right? So he saves her? Ehhhhh

I enjoyed this movie, but I didn’t feel like there was very much conflict. Mike and Sully’s conflict is interesting and meaningful, but apart from that, there really isn’t much to care about in this movie. The characters are likeable, and nothing really goes that badly. I will say the movie is consistently funny, though. Overall, I don’t feel like this movie had much of anything meaningful to say. It wasn’t bad by any means, but Pixar has had more interesting stories.

On a scale of 1 to Gravity, WHICH EVERYONE SHOULD GO SEE, I give this movie 3.5 stars.