Monsters, Inc

HTH NFC. But hey, it’s a Pixar movie, and it’s not Cars (which is totally unappealing for some reason).

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  <strong>Synopsis</strong> Monsters who collect screams from scaring kids to fuel their world find themselves in a boatload of trouble when a kid infiltrates their world.
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  <strong>Thoughts </strong>Mostly predictable, but sweet and funny. I ended up watching this on my Macbook Pro because Lordie, I&#8217;m a fucking idiot who let go of a rock climbing wall without a belayer to catch him, and so I spent the rest of the evening lying in bed; it&#8217;s just not the same as watching on a 50&#8243; plasma with surround sound.
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  So, I wasn&#8217;t so blown away by the artwork, though the fuzzy wuzzies were pretty fuzzy wuzzies.
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  I just wish the story was less predictable &#8212; but after the fundamentals of the story are established in the first ten minutes, you can pretty much tell guess what will follow.
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  Kids won&#8217;t know that; they don&#8217;t have the experience. But adults do, and that&#8217;s what keeps this in the realm of children&#8217;s fare.
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  Is this a fair criticism? Don&#8217;t the Incredibles, Ratatouille and Wall-E &#8212; all movies I liked more than Monsters, Inc &#8212; all suffer from a similar predictability? Perhaps &#8212; I&#8217;d have to watch the movies all over again (oh, horrors!), but as I&#8217;ve mentioned in the past, predictability isn&#8217;t a fatal flaw when there&#8217;s some special about the treatment. Certainly Ratatouille has a special place in my heart as a food movie &#8212; I resisted the urge to applaud when Remy was trying to help his brother (cousin?) how to taste &#8212; and the ending was somewhat unexpected. (The tropes of the Pixar genre, if that&#8217;s the right phrase, would suggest that the restaurant would be successful and remain open, instead of opening.)
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  Or maybe I&#8217;m just in a shitty mood because my back hurts, and in the end, Monsters, Inc, didn&#8217;t make me cry. (I&#8217;ve cried at every other Pixar movie. Assholes. Don&#8217;t do that to man, eh?)
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  Kids, let this be a lesson: always keep a hand on a hold at all times. No library pun intended.
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