[Movie Monday] Monsters, Inc.

Movie: Monsters, Inc.

Genre: Animation

Welcome to Movie Monday with the Otaku World!

There was already another Movie Monday done for the day, but for this series, three will be done per week! Meaning triple the movie talk every Monday!

This time around, the movie to talk about is Monsters, Inc.!

Growing up, there are kids around the world that believe that there are monsters under their beds. When old enough, there comes a point in every child’s life when they come to realizing that realizing that monsters existing is nothing more than a ridiculous thinking. But what if there actually are monsters that exist even in our closets that comes out at night after parents tuck their children into their beds?

That’s where Monsters, Inc. movie comes into play. Monsters, Inc. is a movie that revolves around a company in a parallel dimension that connects straight into our world through our closet doors – Or rather the closet door of a child’s room! Children are afraid of monsters, but what if it were the case that monsters are afraid of us humans as well? More specifically the children since it’s always the children that these monsters in the company full of monsters target?

In Monsters, Inc. movie, that is the case with Mikey, a one eyed, short, green monster, and Sulley, a big blue monster, when they bring what is a terror to those of their world by bringing a huge trouble from their company with one mistake that they make during one of their jobs with a child that they end up calling Boo due to the small girl crying out, “Boo!” to others constantly. With the movie about this company full of monsters, it starts off with how the company runs when it comes to scaring children. Of course, how it comes down to scaring children is that every monster is assigned to certain amount of children and for every child that’s assigned to the specific monster, they have files of the child that has record of what they are afraid of and what doesn’t terrify them.

Mike and Sulley are on their shift as usual when Sulley goes into Boo’s room through the portal door that leads to her closet. Boo being innocent as she is, she doesn’t get scared but rather finds Sulley funny that she immediately gets attached to him, calling him ‘Kitty’. After the failure to scare, Sulley returns to his own world and closes the door to leave for lunch with Mike. What ends up going terribly wrong is when Randall, one of their coworkers that has never liked them, places a door in their portal stand and opens it to try and kidnap the child, only to fail and letting the girl on the loose in the world of monsters where the monsters are the ones to be terrified of children. It’s discovered that the monsters are afraid of children when the little girl goes around to every monster she sees, saying, “Boo!” which earns her the name ‘Boo’ by Sulley, and the monsters will run with horror from the belief that they will die from one little touch from a human child.

Sulley and Mike does whatever they can to bring the girl back to her own world and back into her own room while trying to bring order back to their own world and showing the other monsters that just because of coming into direct physical contact with a human child, it doesn’t actually mean death. But rather the death by touch of a human is nothing more than a myth that should just be looked over.

Whether the other monsters come to believe Mike and Sulley or not and if order is brought back is all up to having to find out from watching the movie.

And if wanting to even know how Mike and Sulley got to where they are in Monsters, Inc., the movie to watch is the prequel that came out a few years after the Monsters, Inc. movie titled Monster University. Have fun through adventures of Mike and Sulley in their company, and even after when traveling back in time to go through the lives as university students of the two very unlikely monster partners!