"on those sleeping tykes: technically impressive but a job un-anchored to anything more meaningful."" Leonard Maltin of ""IndieWire"" praised the animation and art direction, but wrote that he wished ""the movie was funnier and wasn't so plot-heavy"" and that ""Pixar has raised the bar for animated features so high that when they turn out a film that's merely good, instead of great, they have only themselves to blame for causing critics to damn them with faint praise."" Michael Phillips of ""Chicago Tribune"" gave the film two stars out of four, saying """"Monsters University"", the weirdly charmless sequel to the animated"
"Monsters, Inc. Monsters, Inc. is a 2001 American computer-animated buddy comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. Featuring the voices of John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, James Coburn, and Jennifer Tilly, the film was directed by Pete Docter in his directorial debut, and executive produced by John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton. The film centers on two monsters – James P. ""Sulley"" Sullivan and his one-eyed partner and best friend Mike Wazowski – employed at the titular energy-producing factory Monsters, Inc, which generates power by scaring human children. The monster world believes that children"
"luck, claiming they were the first students to have surprised her. Some time later, the two find jobs at the mail room of Monsters, Inc., eventually working their way up to join the scarer team. In a post-credits scene, a slug makes it to his classroom, only to find out that he missed the entire school year. Plans for a second ""Monsters, Inc."" film existed since 2005. Following disagreements between Disney CEO Michael Eisner and Pixar CEO Steve Jobs, Disney—which owned the rights to make sequels to all of Pixar's films up to ""Cars—""announced that a sequel to ""Monsters, Inc."""
"""Toy Story 3"" and ""Finding Nemo"". Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a score of 96% based on 194 reviews, with an average score of 8/10. The critical consensus was, ""Clever, funny, and delightful to look at, ""Monsters, Inc."" delivers another resounding example of how Pixar elevated the bar for modern all-ages animation."" Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 78 based on 34 reviews, indicating ""generally favorable reviews"". According to CinemaScore, audiences gave the film a rare ""A+"" grade, becoming the second Pixar film to gain an ""A+"""
"43% score. GameSpot gave the game 55%, but also cited the game's issues saying ""[It] will likely bore the older players and frustrate the young."" Monsters, Inc. (video game) Monsters, Inc. is a platform game and is a tie-in to Pixar's 2001 film ""Monsters, Inc."", released for Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, and PlayStation 2. by THQ. The game was developed by Vicarious Visions for the Game Boy Color, Natsume for the Game Boy Advance, and Kodiak Interactive for the PS2 release. The game was first released in October 2001, in North America, for both handheld systems, and then"
"""Kingdom Hearts"" series in ""Kingdom Hearts III"", making it the second Disney-Pixar movie featured in the series after ""Toy Story"". In November 2017, Disney CEO Bob Iger spoke about plans to develop a television series spin-off of ""Monsters, Inc."" among other properties owned by the company. By November of the following year the series was confirmed for Disney+, and will reportedly continue the story of the previous films. Monsters, Inc. Monsters, Inc. is a 2001 American computer-animated buddy comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. Featuring the voices of John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve"
"refined version of the story on May 30. At this pitch meeting, longtime Disney animator Joe Grant – whose work stretched back to ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" (1937) – suggested the title ""Monsters, Inc."", a play on the title of a gangster film ""Murder, Inc."", which stuck. The film marks the first Pixar feature to not be directed by Lasseter instead being helmed by Docter, as well as Lee Unkrich and David Silverman who served as co-directors. The story line took on many forms during production. His original idea featured a 30-year-old man dealing with monsters that he"
"and their time studying at college, where they start off as rivals, but slowly become best friends. John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, Bob Peterson, and John Ratzenberger reprise their roles as James P. Sullivan, Mike Wazowski, Randall Boggs, Roz, and the Abominable Snowman, respectively. Bonnie Hunt, who played Ms. Flint in the first film, voices Mike's grade school teacher Ms. Karen Graves. Disney, as the rights holder, had plans for a sequel to ""Monsters, Inc."" since 2005. Following disagreements with Pixar, Disney tasked its Circle 7 Animation unit to make the film. An early draft of the film was"
"""Monsters Inc."" comic book mini-series that ran for four issues. The storyline takes place after the movie and focuses on Sulley and Mike's daily struggles to operate Monsters Inc. on its new laughter-focused company policy. At the same time, their work is impeded by the revenge schemes of Randall and Waternoose, as well as a human child (indirectly revealed to be Sid Phillips from the ""Toy Story"" franchise) who has hijacked the company's closet door technology to commit a string of toy thefts throughout the human world. A world based on the film will make its debut appearance in the"
"Monsters, Inc. (video game) Monsters, Inc. is a platform game and is a tie-in to Pixar's 2001 film ""Monsters, Inc."", released for Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, and PlayStation 2. by THQ. The game was developed by Vicarious Visions for the Game Boy Color, Natsume for the Game Boy Advance, and Kodiak Interactive for the PS2 release. The game was first released in October 2001, in North America, for both handheld systems, and then later in February 2002 in Europe. The Game Boy Advance version was also released on a Twin Pack cartridge bundled with ""Finding Nemo"" in 2005."
"Party Central Party Central is a 2013 computer animated short produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Kelsey Mann. It premiered August 9, 2013 at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, California and was shown in theaters with ""Muppets Most Wanted"" on March 21, 2014. ""Party Central"" is the second short in the ""Monsters, Inc."" franchise and takes place shortly after the events of ""Monsters University"". The short involves Mike and Sulley helping their Oozma Kappa fraternity brothers make their party a success. Mike and Sulley are visiting Monsters University for the weekend to see how their Oozma Kappa fraternity"
"success of the 3D re-release of ""The Lion King"", Disney and Pixar re-released ""Monsters, Inc."" in 3D on December 19, 2012. ""Monsters, Inc."" was released on VHS and DVD on September 17, 2002. It was then released on Blu-ray on November 10, 2009, and on Blu-ray 3D on February 19, 2013. ""Monsters, Inc."" ranked number 1 at the box office on its opening weekend, grossing $62,577,067 in North America alone. The film had a small drop-off of 27.2% over its second weekend, earning another $45,551,028. In its third weekend, the film experienced a larger decline of 50.1%, placing itself in"
""""". Scanlon joined Pixar in 2001, where he was a story artist for ""Cars"" and ""Toy Story 3"". He co-directed the short film ""Mater and the Ghostlight"". He illustrated part one of ""Unmentionables"", a comic book written by his wife, Michele Scanlon, and wrote and directed the live-action feature film ""Tracy"". ""Tracy"" was Scanlon's first feature film as a writer/director. He also served as a member of the senior creative team on ""Brave"" and ""Inside Out"". Scanlon directed the prequel film ""Monsters University"", released in 2013, to positive reviews and commercial success. He was announced to be directing an untitled"
"early in the production of ""Monsters, Inc."", Pixar packed up and moved for the second time since its Lucasfilm years. The company's approximately 500 employees had become spread among three buildings, separated by a busy highway. The company moved from Point Richmond to a much bigger campus in Emeryville, co-designed by Lasseter and Steve Jobs. In production, ""Monsters Inc."" differed from earlier Pixar features, as every main character in this movie had its own lead animator – John Kahrs on Sulley, Andrew Gordon on Mike, and Dave DeVan on Boo. Kahrs found that the ""bearlike quality"" of Goodman's voice provided"
"""is true to the spirit of [""Monsters, Inc.""] and matches its tone. But it never seems content to turn over old ground."" Trevor Johnston of ""Time Out"" gave the film four stars out of five, writing ""It has enough of the right stuff to haunt the imagination long after the immediate buzz of its fluffy-furred cuteness has melted away. For a mere prequel, that's a result."" Steven Rea of ""The Philadelphia Inquirer"" gave the film three stars out of four and said it ""is cute, and funny, and the animation, though not exactly inspired, is certainly colorful."" Jake Coyle of"
"projected an opening-weekend gross of at least $70 million. The film opened on Friday, June 21, 2013 in first place with $30.47 million—including $2.6 million in 20:00 Thursday night shows—marking the fifth-largest opening day among animated films. The film then reached first place with an opening-weekend gross of $82.43 million; the second-largest among Pixar films, the second-largest among G-rated films, the fourth-largest among prequels, the fifth-largest among animated films, and the fifth-largest among films released in June. ""Monsters University"" remained at first place on its second weekend, declining 45% to $45.6 million. Facing tough competition from ""Despicable Me 2"" on"
"became the second-highest-grossing animated film of 2013 and the third highest-grossing film of 2013. It is also the most profitable film in the 101-year history of Universal Studios. A spinoff/prequel film, ""Minions"", focusing on the little yellow henchmen before they met Gru, was released on July 10, 2015. A sequel, ""Despicable Me 3"", was released on June 30, 2017. A mysterious vehicle using a giant magnet steals a highly potent mutagen known as PX-41 from a secret laboratory in the Arctic Circle. The Anti-Villain League (AVL), led by Silas Ramsbottom, tries to recruit former super-villain Gru to track down the"
"Media. Shortly before the film's release, Pixar was sued by children's songwriter Lori Madrid of Wyoming, stating that the company had stolen her ideas from her 1997 poem ""There's a Boy in My Closet"". Madrid mailed her poem to six publishers in October 1999, notably Chronicle Books, before turning it into a local stage musical in August 2001. After seeing the trailer for ""Monsters, Inc."", Madrid concluded that Chronicle Books had passed her work to Pixar and that the film was based on her work. In October 2001, she filed the suit against Chronicle Books, Pixar, and Disney in a"
"movements in a more natural manner. To solve the problem of cloth-to-cloth collisions, Michael Kass, Pixar's senior scientist, was joined on ""Monsters, Inc."" by David Baraff and Andrew Witkin and developed an algorithm they called ""global intersection analysis"" to handle the problem. The complexity of the shots in the film, including elaborate sets such as the door vault, required more computing power to render than any of Pixar's earlier efforts combined. The render farm in place for ""Monsters, Inc."" was made up of 3500 Sun Microsystems processors, compared with 1400 for ""Toy Story 2"" and only 200 for ""Toy Story""."
"(who lost to Eddie Murphy in ""Shrek""). ""Monsters Inc."" was Randy Newman's fourth feature film collaboration with Pixar. The end credits song ""If I Didn't Have You"" was sung by John Goodman and Billy Crystal. The album was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score and a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. The score lost both these awards to """", but after sixteen nominations, the song ""If I Didn't Have You"" finally won Newman his first Academy Award for Best Original Song. It also won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual"
"Monsters vs. Aliens Monsters vs. Aliens is a 2009 American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was DreamWorks Animation's first feature film to be directly produced in a stereoscopic 3-D format instead of being converted into 3-D after completion, which added $15 million to the film's budget. The film was directed by Conrad Vernon and Rob Letterman, and features the voices of Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett, Kiefer Sutherland, Rainn Wilson, Paul Rudd, and Stephen Colbert. The film was released on March 27, 2009 in the United States, grossing"
"In 2009, ""CityNews Toronto"" made comparisons between nine ""Pixar universe"" films. In his 2013 thesis entitled ""The Pixar Theory"", Jon Negroni wrote that all fourteen Pixar movies released at the time took place in a single fictional universe. He acknowledges that the concepts behind his thesis were derived from an episode of the Cracked.com video series ""After Hours"", written by Daniel O'Brien. In his post, Negroni discusses all of the films and how they relate in a timeline of events. The character of Boo in ""Monsters, Inc."" is said to create a time loop, and consequently is the same character"
"Film Festival, and was released in theaters on June 21, 2013. The film's theatrical release was accompanied by Pixar's short film titled ""The Blue Umbrella"". ""Monsters University"" was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on Blu-ray, 3D Blu-ray, DVD, digital copy, and on demand on October 29, 2013. It was accompanied by ""The Blue Umbrella"", Pixar's short film which played alongside the film in theaters. ""Monsters University"" earned $269.5 million in the United States and Canada and $475.7 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $744.2 million. Calculating in all expenses, ""Deadline Hollywood"" estimated that the film"
"university's ""Scare Games"", where they and their team of misfits must beat the odds and win the competition, or be expelled from school. As the team struggles, the two learn to work together, and slowly become best friends. A television series spin-off of ""Monsters, Inc."" was confirmed in a Disney press release on November 9, 2017 as part of an exclusive series for Walt Disney Studio's upcoming streaming service Disney+. ""Charades"" is a two-minute promotional short animated film, featuring characters from ""Monsters Inc."". The short was theatrically released on November 16, 2001 with ""Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"". The"
"Girl vs. Monster Girl vs. Monster is a 2012 fantasy teen comedy Disney Channel Original Movie that premiered on October 12, 2012. The film stars Olivia Holt as Skylar, a teenage girl who discovers on the eve of Halloween that she is a fifth-generation monster hunter. Before she can practice the family tradition, the monsters will try to stop her. The film was directed by Stuart Gillard and produced by Tracey Jeffrey. A promo for the film first aired on August 17, 2012, during the premiere of """". The movie begins on the day before Halloween with Skylar, a fearless"
"be adapted for television as and TV series. ""Cars"" became the second with the help of ""Cars Toons"", a series of 3-to-5-minute short films running between regular Disney Channel shows and featuring Mater (a tow truck voiced by comedian Larry the Cable Guy). Between 2013 and 2014, Pixar released its first two television specials, ""Toy Story of Terror!"" and ""Toy Story That Time Forgot"". A television series spin-off of ""Monsters, Inc."" was confirmed in a Disney press release in November 2017. All Pixar films to date have been computer-animated features, but ""WALL-E"" so far has been the only Pixar film"
"2001 Pixar hit ""Monsters, Inc."", is no better or worse than the average (and I mean average) time-filling sequel cranked out by other animation houses."" Todd McCarthy of ""The Hollywood Reporter"" gave the film a negative review, saying that it ""never surprises, goes off in unexpected directions or throws you for a loop in the manner of the best Pixar stories. Nor does it come close to elating through the sheer imagination of its conceits and storytelling."" Claudia Puig of ""USA Today"" gave the film three stars out of four, and said it ""may not be as inventive as ""Inc."","
"Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (also known as Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters and Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters) is a 2013 American fantasy adventure film directed by Thor Freudenthal. It is the second installment in the ""Percy Jackson"" film series and is based on the 2006 novel ""The Sea of Monsters"" by Rick Riordan. It is a sequel to the 2010 film """". The film continues the adventures of Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) and his friends, as they search for the Golden Fleece at the Sea of Monsters."
"believes that Pussyfoot has been turned into a cookie (and unaware that the kitten is actually perfectly safe), was the subject of a homage in the 2001 Pixar film ""Monsters, Inc."" in which Sulley believes that a little human girl he is protecting has fallen into a trash compactor, and reenacts the scene with Marc Antony nearly shot-for-shot. A reference is also made to ""Feed the Kitty"" in the 13th and 14th episodes of season 14 of ""South Park"" with Eric Cartman acting as Pussyfoot and Cthulhu as Marc Antony in his ""cute kitten"" routine. ""Feed the Kitty"" is available"
"made a profit of $179.8 million. It is the 56th-highest-grossing film of all time, the 12th-highest-grossing animated film all time, the seventh-highest-grossing 2013 film, and the third-highest-grossing Pixar film. The film earned $136.9 million worldwide on its opening weekend. Disney declined to provide a budget for the film; ""Entertainment Weekly"" speculated that it was higher than that of ""Brave"" ($185 million), mainly because of the high cost of John Goodman and Billy Crystal reprising their roles. Shockya and EOnline reported the budget to be $200 million—on par with previous Pixar films. In the week leading to ""Monsters University""s release, Disney"
"for Pixar’s ""Monsters University"". ""National Post"" gave the film 3.5/4 stars, writing ""Directed by Saschka Unseld, who worked on ""Toy Story 3"" and ""Brave"", ""The Blue Umbrella"" is six minutes of rain-beaten beauty"", and describing it as ""sure-to-be-Oscar-nominated"". The Blue Umbrella (2013 film) The Blue Umbrella is a 2013 computer-animated short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios that was released alongside ""Monsters University"". The short is directed by Saschka Unseld of Pixar's technical department. The short features techniques such as photorealistic lighting, shading, and compositing. A city scene is brought to life by a rainstorm. Many objects along the street"
"beating the previous record holder, ""Toy Story 3"". In the UK, the film topped the box office during its opening weekend with a gross of . The film's largest opening occurred in China, where its $13 million debut ranked fourth among Disney films. The film's highest-grossing markets are Japan ($90.1 million), the UK, Ireland, and Malta ($47.2 million), and Mexico ($37.6 million). Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 79% based on 194 reviews with an average rating of 6.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads ""Offering ""Monsters, Inc."" fans a welcome return visit with beloved characters,"
"Pete Docter Peter Hans Docter (born October 9, 1968) is an American animator, film director, screenwriter, producer, voice actor and chief creative officer of Pixar. He is best known for directing the animated feature films ""Monsters, Inc."" (2001), ""Up"" (2009) and ""Inside Out"" (2015) and as a key figure and collaborator at Pixar. He has been nominated for eight Oscars (two wins thus far for ""Up"" and ""Inside Out"" – Best Animated Feature), seven Annie Awards (winning five), a BAFTA Children's Film Award (which he won) and a Hochi Film Award (which he won). He has described himself as a"